I noticed it the first time one day when I took a cab downtown. I avoid buses; they blow up on occasion. Next to the Old City walls, the taxi turned left off King Solomon Street. And there, at the start of Jaffa Road (West Jerusalem’s main street), a police van was parked at an […]
Gershom Gorenberg
Gershom Gorenberg is a senior correspondent for the Prospect. His most recent book is War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis From the Middle East. Follow him on Twitter @GershomG.
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As Children Die
My son followed me out of the apartment and caught up with me as I leaned on the fence around the playground, shaking. “What’s wrong, Dad?” he asked. He’s used to a wordy father, but I couldn’t find words, not then. I took a breath, slipped back on my journalist’s emotional armor, went inside, and […]
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While the Mideast Burns:
“I have to drop some papers off at Zion Square,” my wife told a fellow staffer at her office, a news bureau near downtown Jerusalem. “I’ll be back in five.” Her colleague pointed to one of the flak jackets that correspondents wear for covering battles. “Here,” he said, “take this.” It was dark newsroom humor. […]
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A Belief in Force
The ruling arrived like a letter from another era, written in strange script, waiting to be deciphered. In mid-February, the Israeli supreme court upheld a lower-court decision, thereby dismissing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s libel suit against the Ha’aretz newspaper and its political commentator Uzi Benziman. At issue was a column Benziman wrote a decade ago […]