Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC
Dear All,
You were almost spared a message from me tonight. The rains finally came, thank goodness. Perhaps that’s why our community this evening experienced an unexpected and sudden electricity outage. I was set for a long pleasant evening by the fire place. But the outage lasted for only one hour. After the lights went on again, and the computer, too, I discovered that since I’d saved everything, all was retrievable. Ah well. Maybe next time the outage will be longer. I wish that the news from here were also as pleasant as is the fireplace. But . . . .
6 items below.
The first relates that the Knesset voted today to stalk left-wing organizations, including Israeli human rights groups. Imagine! Human rights are left-wing. So what should we say of the right-wing? that they support inhuman rights, or no rights, perhaps? But then, fascism never likes either opposition or competition.
I wonder if the organization that Kirshenbaum singled out, which she claimed went into local Israeli schools to convince pupils not to enlist could possibly be the organization that I belong to? But New Profile has already been investigated and found to be clean. Besides, in Israel, unlike the United States, organizations opposing enlistment are not allowed in the classroom. But the military is. So who is she referring to? I presume that we will soon enough find out. Also very likely that some sort of counter action will soon be in the works. If that occurs, I hope that you will all join hands with those of us here to show the world that Israel is deligitimizing itself by acts as the one that is the subject of item 1. I have divided item 1 into a and b, because b came on-line later and is a reaction to 1a. Portions of the two are identical.
Item 2 appears again to be racism, if not so blatant as other expositions that we have seen. The issue is allowing Palestinian kids to speak their mother tongue at school. I must admit that I do not know if the issue is over using Arabic as a teaching instrument in the classroom or over merely allowing kids to speak Arabic on the school premises. If the latter, then just imagine not allowing American youngsters to speak Spanish, Arabic, or whatever on school grounds in the US?
Item 3 reports that some people are using facebook for racist propaganda, and that Israeli authorities might investigate.
Item 4 is particularly interesting. Netanyahu supports allowing Palestinian workers (presumably from the West Bank rather than from Gaza) to enter Israel to work in construction and agriculture. Now that Israel has deprived Palestinians of agricultural land, Israel will allow them to work our lands. How nice! One motive for bringing Palestinians in to work is clear from the final statement “”Palestinian workers, in contrast to foreign workers, return to their homes every day, and this is significantly more preferable to us . . . “ Ah yes. Once again demographic considerations (among others) determine policy.
Item 5 reveals that one out of every 5 Israelis requires aid from the social services.
Item 6 is an article from the Forward (an American Jewish newspaper) on the mistreatment of Goldstone, claiming that the assault was “un-Jewish.” The article is quite good, but I don’t know what the author means by “un-Jewish”? After all, we Jews are no more of one kind than is any other ethnic, religious, racial group. We have our fundamentalists and our human-rights groups. We have all shades of morality—from the best to the worst. So what can we say is a typical Jewish trait that this mistreatment of Goldstone does not represent? Better to say that the assault was nasty, mean, and fearful of opening to the light the atrocities that Israel committed in Gaza and will commit again and again, given the opportunity.
Wish I could say, ‘enjoy.’ Maybe that will come some day.
Dorothy
1a. Haaretz,
January 05, 2011
Knesset votes to probe Israeli groups accused of ‘delegitimizing’ IDF
Panel of inquiry will primarily look into these groups’ funding sources, particularly to examine whether foreign state or terror-linked organizations are involved.
The Knesset plenum voted Wednesday to establish a parliamentary panel of inquiry to investigate left-wing Israeli organizations that allegedly participate in delegitimization campaigns against Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
The initiative, brought forth by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu faction, called primarily to investigate the sources of funding for these groups. The panel will essentially be charged with looking into where these groups have been attaining their funds, particularly whether this money is coming from foreign states or even organizations deemed to be involved in terrorist activities.
The knesset’s approval of the proposal comes after Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein ruled in August that no investigation should be launched against such groups. The initiative has been met with anger from both the opposition and human rights groups.
The discussion at the Knesset on Wednesday was charged, filled with heckling and interruptions. A significant number of security guards were on hand to prevent physical altercations between the opposing members of Knesset.
MK Fania Kirshenbaum (Yisrael Beiteinu ), who submitted the proposal, alleged during the debate that the groups targeted for investigation were to blame for foreign actions aimed at delegitimizing Israel and its officials.
“These groups provide material to the Goldstone commission [which investigated the Gaza war] and are behind the indictments lodged against Israeli officers and officials around the world,” Kirshenbaum said, referring to a series of arrest warrants issued over the last few years.
“They are trying to silence the very people who administrate the State of Israel’s foreign relations,” she declared. “These organizations are responsible for branding IDF soldiers as war criminals and encourage defamations.”
In her presentations, Kirshenbaum singled out one group which she claimed went into local Israeli schools to convince pupils that “joining the IDF is unethical” and to advise them how to dodge conscription. A panel of inquiry, said Kirshenbaum, would investigate just who was in charge of the bodies providing these Israeli groups with financial assistance.
While Yisrael Beiteinu had garnered a majority in favor of the proposal before it was brought to vote, the matter raised the ire of human rights groups and left-wing politicians alike.
Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz called the initiative “a shame on the Knesset”, declaring Tuesday that: “The persecution campaign against human rights and citizens rights groups has reached a new low.”
The purpose of such a committee was essentially to silence criticism, Horowitz said, a move that should be seen as, “a brutal act of political persecution using a coalition majority and Knesset funding, under the legal guise of an investigation committee.”
“Human rights and citizens rights group save the honor of Israel in the world and maintain its character as a democratic state,” Horowitz said. “It is moves like that being led by Yisrael Beiteinu that lead to Israel’s delegitimization in the world and present Israeli democracy as fake. All to whom Israeli democracy is dear must oppose this committee of persecution.”
Sixteen human rights groups signed an open letter protesting the initiative, including ACRI, B’Tselem, Yesh Din, Machsom Watch, Adalah, Mossawa Center, Ir Amim and Hotline for Migrant Workers.
“Investigate us all, we have nothing to hide. You are invited to read our reports and our publications. We will be happy if for a change you relate in a germane way to our questions instead of trying to besmirch us. It did not work in the past and it will not work this time,” the letter said.
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1b) Latest update 19:05 05.01.11
Leftist groups: ‘Witch hunt’ against us will destroy democracy in Israel
Knesset plenum votes overwhelmingly in favor of establishing panel of inquiry to probe source of funding for rights groups accused of ‘delegitimizing’ the IDF.
Israeli left-wing organizations decried Wednesday a Knesset plenum decision to support a panel of inquiry to investigate certain groups suspected of “delegitimizing” the Israel Defense Forces.
The plenum’s approval means that the initiative will now be taken to the Knesset House Committee for debate. The initiative proposes investigating the sources of funding for these left-wing groups, and to determine whether money is being funneled from foreign states or organizations linked to terror activities.
Peace Now Director-General Yariv Oppenheimer deemed the move “another step on the path toward wiping out democracy in Israel” and as a blatant attempt to persecute critics of Israeli policy.
The New Israel Fund said the Knesset’s approval “proves how much the stature of Israeli democracy has deteriorated– even in the house of legislators.”
“Democracy cannot function properly without freedom of expression, freedom to sound criticism of the system, and active human rights groups,” said the NIF.
“The political persecution of human rights group causes great damage to Israel across the world, and that is precisely what will lead to the delegitimization [of Israel] and the representation of it as a McCarthyite state in which a witch hunt is taking place,” added the NIF.
“Such behavior, particularly within the walls of Israel’s parliament, will harm our stance in the world and distance us precisely from the democracies that still support us and want in our favor.”
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel called the legislation “authoritarian, immoral and illegitimate”, adding that it mourns the “slow but sure death” of democratic values in Israel.
Forty-one legislators voted in favor of the motion on Wednesday while 15 voted against.
Knesset approval of the initiative, brought forth by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu faction, comes just months after Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein ruled in August that no investigation should be launched against such groups.
The discussion at the Knesset on Wednesday was charged, filled with heckling and interruptions. A significant number of security guards were on hand to prevent physical altercations between the opposing members of Knesset.
MK Fania Kirshenbaum (Yisrael Beiteinu ), who submitted the proposal, alleged during the debate that the groups targeted for investigation were to blame for foreign actions aimed at delegitimizing Israel and its officials.
“These groups provide material to the Goldstone commission [which investigated the Gaza war] and are behind the indictments lodged against Israeli officers and officials around the world,” Kirshenbaum said, referring to a series of arrest warrants issued over the last few years.
“They are trying to silence the very people who administrate the State of Israel’s foreign relations,” she declared. “These organizations are responsible for branding IDF soldiers as war criminals and encourage defamations.”
In her presentations, Kirshenbaum singled out one group which she claimed went into local Israeli schools to convince pupils that “joining the IDF is unethical” and to advise them how to dodge conscription. A panel of inquiry, said Kirshenbaum, would investigate just who was in charge of the bodies providing these Israeli groups with financial assistance.
While Yisrael Beiteinu had garnered a majority in favor of the proposal before it was brought to vote, the matter raised the ire of human rights groups and left-wing politicians alike.
Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz called the initiative “a shame on the Knesset”, declaring Tuesday that: “The persecution campaign against human rights and citizens rights groups has reached a new low.”
The purpose of such a committee was essentially to silence criticism, Horowitz said, a move that should be seen as, “a brutal act of political persecution using a coalition majority and Knesset funding, under the legal guise of an investigation committee.”
“Human rights and citizens rights group save the honor of Israel in the world and maintain its character as a democratic state,” Horowitz said. “It is moves like that being led by Yisrael Beiteinu that lead to Israel’s delegitimization in the world and present Israeli democracy as fake. All to whom Israeli democracy is dear must oppose this committee of persecution.”
Sixteen human rights groups signed an open letter protesting the initiative, including ACRI, B’Tselem, Yesh Din, Machsom Watch, Adalah, Mossawa Center, Ir Amim and Hotline for Migrant Workers.
“Investigate us all, we have nothing to hide. You are invited to read our reports and our publications. We will be happy if for a change you relate in a germane way to our questions instead of trying to besmirch us. It did not work in the past and it will not work this time,” the letter said.
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2. Ynet,
January 05, 2011
MK Zoabi: Let Arab students speak in mother tongue
During heated Knesset debate over Jaffa principal’s decision to prohibit Arab students from speaking Arabic in classrooms, Arab MK says education system at fault ‘for not teaching Arabic over past 60 years.’ Rivlin: Anti-Israel propaganda
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin and MK Hanin Zoabi (National Democratic Assembly) got into a heated argument Wednesday on whether Arab students should be permitted to speak Arabic in school.
Rivlin said Zoabi, who supports the students’ right to speak Arabic in school, “wants to conduct propaganda,” adding that “there’s a limit to how tolerant we can be in allowing the Knesset to become a stage used against the State of Israel.”
Zoabi said, “This is the fault of the Israeli education system, which did not teach Arabic, our language, for the past 60 years.”
Recently dozens of Jaffa residents held a demonstration after a principal at a local school prohibited Arab students from speaking Arabic inside classrooms.
During Wednesday’s debate, a number of Arab MKs claimed the education system was discriminating against Arabs.
Turning to Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Zoabi said, “I ask that you issue a clear guideline so that school principals will not act in this manner in the future. Students must be allowed to speak in their mother tongue –Arabic.”
Rivlin replied: “As a Jew, I regret the fact that we speak English and French but not the language of the people we live with – Arabic. But there are those who speak of coexistence, and there are others who make every effort to prevent coexistence.”
MK Ronit Tirosh (Kadima) said that while working as an Arabic teacher and during her time as director general of the Education Ministry she “encouraged the teaching of the Arabic language in all classes and all age groups.
“The school in Jaffa should be commended for integrating Jewish and Arab populations – where one learns from the other. The official language in Israeli schools is Hebrew, and therefore it makes no sense to hold classroom discussions in Arabic,” she said.
Sa’ar said the Education Ministry checked the Jaffa residents’ claims and found them to be unjustified. “Hurting a school which promotes coexistence cannot encourage coexistence,” he added.
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3. Haaretz,
January 5, 2011
Israeli Facebook groups may face investigation for inciting racism
Deputy attorney general requested police open investigation into groups “Death to all Arabs”, and “Protest in Umm al-Fahm against the Islamic Movement”.
The deputy attorney general requested on Wednesday that police investigate two Facebook groups for allegedly inciting racism.
The groups are called “Death to all Arabs” and “Protest in Umm al-Fahm against the Islamic Movement”.
“Death to all Arabs,” which has 170 members, explicitly calls for acts of violence to be carried out against Arabs and has supportive words for violent acts against Arabs. The Deputy Attorney General Shai Nitzan told police to investigate the group for inciting both violence and racism.
Under the “group description” section, it says, “We need to kill them one by one…. Dead Arab= Good Arab.” The group had obviously reached other users, one of who posted “Death to Jews” on the group’s wall.
The second group, “Protest in Umm al-Fahm against the Islamic Movement,” was organized ahead of the right-wing march in the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm. The march, which took place in October of last year, was held to protest the participation of a leader of the Islamic Movement in last May’s Gaza-bound flotilla.
Sheik Ra’ad Salah, who heads the Islamic Movement’s northern branch, accused the Israel Navy commandos who stormed the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara, killing nine Turkish citizens, of deliberately trying to kill him.
Users wrote on the group’s wall “death to Arabs” and “Mohamed is a pig.”
In both cases, Nitzan requested that police go to Facebook and ask that they do away with the offending groups.
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4. Haaretz,
January 5, 2011
Netanyahu backs plan to let more Palestinian workers into Israel
Proposal by Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer would grant work permits to 5,250 West Bank Palestinians – 4,000 in construction and 1,250 in agriculture.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he supports a plan proposed by Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) to increase the number of Palestinians from the West Bank allowed to work in Israel.
According to the plan – to be brought up for approval by the government on Sunday – 4,000 Palestinians would be given permits to work in construction and 1,250 in agriculture, totaling 5,250 Palestinians.
Ben-Eliezer is fulfilling government decisions that ordered him and Defense Minister Ehud Barak to allocate 5,000 work permits for Palestinians from the West Bank. Until now, only 1,000 had been allocated.
“Beyond helping the construction and agricultural sectors, this represents an important step of trust between us and the Palestinian Authority,” Ben-Eliezer said.
Ben-Eliezer said that the plan would provide an immediate answer to the labor shortage in the construction sector and that it would increase the housing supply, thereby reducing real estate prices.
In regards to the agriculture sector, Ben-Eliezer said the constant shortage of laborers and the decrease in quotas for foreign workers required an increase in the quota of Palestinian workers.
“Palestinian workers, in contrast to foreign workers, return to their homes every day, and this is significantly more preferable to us,” he said. “At the same time, my ministry is trying to professionally train as many Israelis as possible in the field of construction.”
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5. Haaretz,
January 05, 2011
One in five Israeli households receive welfare services
Number of households receiving social services rose from 298,000 in 1998 to 433,500 in 2009; Social Affairs Minister Isaac Herzog: This proves that societal security is no less important than national security.
The number of Israeli households under the care of their local welfare departments has seen a significant rise, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Social Affairs Ministry.
The study, the first of its kind, concludes that between 1998 and 2009, one in five Israeli households received social services provided by local authorities. The number of such households rose from 298,000 in 1998 to 433,500 in 2009.
The report also found a significant rise in the number of active welfare case files (of both individuals and households ) under the direct care of the Social Affair Ministry – which jumped from 345,000 in 1998 to more than 500,000 in 2009.
“The fact that a fifth of Israeli citizens need social services proves that societal security is no less important than national security,” Social Affairs Minister Isaac Herzog said Tuesday.
“This situation directly affects the burden borne by social workers. It dictates a change in the wages and working conditions for those who maintain the safety net that protects Israel’s residents. The ongoing negotiations between the ministry and the treasury on this issue must end, and soon,” Herzog said.
The report was prepared by the ministry’s research, planning and training department, which is headed by Yekutiel Sabah.
According to the study, 61.4 percent of Ethiopian immigrant households are registered with local welfare departments.
The ministry report also provides a statistical breakdown of the reasons households receive social services. (Because some households fall into more than one category, the total exceeds over 100 percent. )
The explanations broke down as follows: dysfunctional parenting or children with behavior problems, 35.2 percent of households; problems related to poverty and employment, 34.4 percent; old age, 33.3 percent; medical problems and disabilities (including physical handicaps, blindness, developmental disabilities, mental illness and autism ), 31.9 percent; domestic violence, 4.1 percent; addiction and criminal activity (such as alcohol and drug abuse, gambling or prostitution ), 3.6 percent.
Two years after Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s three-week assault against Hamas in Gaza, we are still grappling with the fallout. Much of the public reckoning has been channeled into an acrimonious debate over the report of a four-person investigative commission appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council and headed by Judge Richard Goldstone. Regrettably, the conduct of many of Israel’s supporters in this dispute has been both indecent and profoundly un-Jewish.
From the moment the Goldstone Report was released in September 2009, its lead author has been subjected to fierce, well-orchestrated attacks by Israeli and American Jews who purport to be defending the legitimacy of the Jewish state and the safety of the Jewish people. Rather than discuss the contents of the report — which concluded that during the 2008-2009 Gaza war, Israel (as well as Hamas) may have committed war crimes — Israel’s defenders launched an all-points campaign to bury it. But their strategy was complicated from the start by an inconvenient truth: Goldstone was one of them — a Jew, and not just any Jew, an exemplary one.
Until 2003, Goldstone served on South Africa’s highest court. Before that, he had distinguished himself as chair of a commission of inquiry into violence during the final years of apartheid, as chief prosecutor of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and as part of the team that investigated the U.N. oil-for-food scandal in Iraq.
Goldstone’s Jewish credentials were equally stellar. A proud, self-identified Zionist, he served on the board of governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; as chair of the advisory board of Brandeis University’s International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life; and as president of World ORT, the international Jewish educational organization. He also was a dogged investigator of Nazi war criminals in Argentina.
Obviously, it wasn’t easy to destroy Richard Goldstone. But for his report to be permanently deep-sixed, the man himself had to be thor-oughly discredited, recast not just as a naïve dupe of the human rights community but as an enemy of Israel, a Nazi in Zionist clothing, a perpetrator of “blood libel,” a self-hating Jew.
“There are three primary threats facing us today,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “the nuclear threat, the missile threat, and what I call the Goldstone threat.” President Shimon Peres called Goldstone “a small man, devoid of any sense of justice.” Others in the government and media piled on, as did the so-called leaders of the “organized” American Jewish community. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said Goldstone was “an evil, evil man,” “a traitor to the Jewish people,” the U.N.’s “token court Jew” and a “despicable human being.”
There’s a Hebrew word for what these people did to Richard Goldstone: They put him in cherem, meaning he was not just persona non grata in the eyes of our religious arbiters, he was totally cut off from the Jewish community. From the moment the report was released, he was treated like a leper — shunned, defamed, disowned — and the worst was yet to come.
In April 2010, the South African Zionist Federation reportedly threatened demonstrations outside the Sandton Synagogue if he showed up at his grandson’s bar mitzvah. Given the volatile political context, that was tantamount to banning the grandfather from the ceremony. No less an authority than Rabbi Moshe Kurtstag, head of the local rabbinic court, endorsed the idea that Goldstone should simply stay away, calling it “quite a sensible thing to avert all this unpleasantness.”
After an international outcry, Goldstone was able to attend the bar mitzvah. However, that hardly absolves Jews worldwide for the smear campaign against him. Appalling enough in human terms, I believe it should be condemned on specifically Jewish grounds. The most Jewishly observant and educated of Goldstone’s attackers surely knew that speaking ill of another human being (“hate speech” in current parlance) violates one of Judaism’s most sacrosanct laws, the prohibition against lashon hara (the Evil Tongue — i.e., gossip), which Maimonides defined as any utterance (true or not!) that might cause a person physical or monetary damage, or shame, humiliation, an-guish or fear.
The Talmud’s famous story of the Oven of Achnai goes even further. It establishes that onaat devarim — verbal torment or abusive speech — is a more heinous infraction than physical assault. The story opens with a dispute among the sages of the Sanhedrin over the ritual purity of a clay oven. Most of the decisors agree that the oven is unclean, but Eliezer, a respected voice, though in this instance a minority of one, insists it is clean and summons four astounding miracles to prove his position. The sages dismiss these divine signs, proclaiming the Torah “is not in heaven” — meaning, the law is to be interpreted by human thinkers on earth — so the majority rules. God apparently agrees since the heavenly voice laughs and, disarmed by the sages’ logic, says, “My sons have defeated Me.” To underscore their victory, the sages set fire to the disputed oven and everything else Eliezer had declared clean, then they vote to excommunicate him.
When Eliezer weeps and grieves, God, despite having ruled for the sages, responds to their mistreatment of him by withering harvests across the land, spoiling dough and incinerating every object Eliezer looks upon. The president of the Sanhedrin meets an untimely death, taking the hit for his minions’ sin of onaat devarim. The gravity of this forbidden activity becomes crystal clear: God nearly destroyed the world because of the “wounded feelings” of Eliezer, an honorable man.
Surely the rabbis who made Richard Goldstone’s life miserable were aware of that famous story as well as the tradition that similar be-havior caused the calamity of calamities, that the Second Temple was demolished for only one reason, sinat chinam (baseless hatred), Jew hating Jew, an infraction so severe that it merited an exile of almost 2,000 years.
The truth is, many holier-than-thou Jews violated several Jewish laws and traditions by politicizing Goldstone’s grandson’s sacred rite of passage, by causing pain to a man and his family, and by dumping verbal sludge on a fellow Jew whose only crime was to pursue justice and demand that Israel live up to its founding principles. Yet Israel’s fanatical defenders won’t let up on Goldstone until he is irreparably destroyed.
His foes mounted a fresh offensive last spring based on a front-page story in Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s mass circulation daily, that charged that during his years as a South African judge, Goldstone “sided through and through with the racist policies of the Apartheid regime” and should “do some soul-searching before he rushes to criticize others.”
Goldstone responded that though it was “the most difficult” decision of his career, he had accepted the judicial appointment in the belief that he could accomplish more by defending the rule of law from within the judicial system. His critics fell over each other exploiting the story and ratcheting up the rhetoric. Danny Ayalon, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, said, “I don’t want to exaggerate but these are the same explanations we heard in Nazi Germany after World War II.” Alan Dershowitz sank to a new low. “That’s what Mengele said, too,” he told an Israeli TV program. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reportedly ordered Yediot’s story distributed to his diplomatic missions abroad.
Yet Goldstone had garnered respect investigating state-sponsored violence against blacks during apartheid, and it was Nelson Mandela himself who subsequently appointed Goldstone to South Africa’s highest court post-apartheid. Thus, one can safely assume that he was considered a fair and honest judge.
Anyone claiming to espouse Jewish values ought to be outraged by the avalanche of attacks on Richard Goldstone. But they should be deeply conscience-stricken by the possibility, just the possibility, that the Israeli army committed atrocities in Gaza. Yet many in our community are still vilifying the judge, and almost no one is talking about his findings: Thousands of Palestinian homes reduced to rubble. Gaza’s infrastructure in ruins. Women and children burned by white phosphorus bombs. A man shot while his arms were shackled and left to die. Civilians shot and killed while carrying white flags. Twenty-two members of one family killed in Gaza City.
It would have been “good for the Jews” and for Israel had the report’s substance been frankly confronted and debated, however the only game in town is “Kill the message, trash the messenger.” In that sense, Goldstone is the Eliezer of our age — a judge pledged to defend the law in the face of arrogant opposition, excoriated for holding Jews to their principles, excommunicated for speaking truth to power. One can only hope the contemporary story doesn’t end as badly as the one in the Talmud.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin is a founding editor of Ms. Magazine and the author of nine books. This essay is adapted from her chapter in “The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict,” to be published January 11 by Nation Books.
