Prophets, Gaza, Israel, and Suicide Diplomacy

ALERT: difficult to view photos below. Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob […]

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In the Light, Palestine-Israel: On the Israel side of the Gaza wall—Netiv Ha’asara & Sderot, part 2

Qassam rocket, fired by militants from Gaza, on display in Gaza passport control office American Friends Service Committee office in Gaza Sderot From Netiv Ha’asara side of Gaza wall Both communities are within 1 km of Gaza and often heavily attacked by rockets and mortars fired by Gazan militants. Nomika Zion lives in Sderot, Roni […]

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In the Light, Palestine-Israel: On the Israel side of the Gaza wall—Netiv Ha’asara & Sderot, part 1

From Netiv Ha’asra, Israel, looking into Beit Hanoun, Gaza Both communities are within 1 km of Gaza and often heavily attacked by rockets and mortars fired by Gazan militants. Nomika Zion lives in Sderot, Roni Keidar and her daughter, Inbal Yahav, live in Netiv Ha-asara even closer to Gaza. This wasn’t my war, Bibi, and neither was the […]

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Sderot-Gaza—part 2 (of 2)

Excerpts from my journal during a recent 6 week journey to Gaza—now back home in the United States. Today we say: ENOUGH! It is our turn to take our destiny into our own hands and to ACT to stop the cycle of bloodshed. Other Voice is a grassroots group that has no political aspirations. We […]

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Sderot-Gaza—part 1 (of 2)

Rocket shelter in a playground December 31, 2010, Friday, Sderot Israel, Nomika Zion’s home-part one PHOTOS …And right action is freedom From past and future also. For most of us, this is the aim Never here to be realised; Who are only undefeated Because we have gone on trying… —T. S. Elliot, “The Dry Salvages” […]

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