Tag: gaza
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Remembering the 6-Day War
La JicaritaAn Online Magazine of Environmental Politics in New Mexico July 11, 2025 Fifty-eight years have passed since the ’67 War, a war I survived under the protection of a Palestinian family. We had no idea that the face of the Middle East had been irrevocably changed. June 5, 1967 I am a newlywed. Nineteen…
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We Remember
Zochrot means remember. Our group walking through a national park near Jerusalem with Eitan Bronstein, a rugged-looking middle-aged Israeli unquestioningly joined the Israeli army at eighteen. Years later, he learned a more complex version of history and became the director of Zochrot, an Israeli organization whose members erect handmade signs in Arabic and Hebrew naming Palestinian villages…
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Gaza on my mind
I remember Gaza in 1998. I was traveling with a group sponsored by Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salaam/the Oasis of Peace. A unique village in Israel where Palestinian and Jewish Israelis lived in community sending their children to the same school where they learned each other’s language, history and customs. Our tour included Gaza. Abject fear made me…
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At The Crossroads of Justice
A debate that has been raging in my family for 53 years, is now being argued across the American-Jewish community. Peter Beinart, an influential Jewish-American journalist and intellectual, recently claimed that Jewish dehumanization of Palestinians is the greatest threat to a peaceful resolution. In 1967, a Palestinian family from East Jerusalem offered me sanctuary during…
Through My Eyes 