It’s been 5 months

It’s been 5 months, Charley, care to comment?

Gutsy essay in Ha’aretz about Israel’s brutal youth. Batya Gur confronts a group of female soldiers harassing an elderly Palestinian:

This was not one of the greater and MBT Lami Shoes more visible

evils that take place around us daily, nor was

it a disaster, only an insidious and consuming

evil, one that is hard to pinpoint and define

in words. I do not see the horrors that take

place at the checkpoints every day. I know very

well that such an act by a woman like me,

someone who avoids any political activity or

any consistent struggle for human rights, is

actually a sentimental act. Such a trivial act

of protest is a bit like sweeping the path to

my own private garden, but what the words and

eyes of this soldier with a blond ponytail and

a pierced tongue reflected was not easy to

sweep away; it was the glittering, sharp tip of

a force of nature: the destructive power that

has been penned up in the MBT Kimondo all-powerful

authority of 18- and 19-year-old men and women.

This power which we, the Jewish citizens of the

state of Israel, have put in the hands of our

children, the MBT Changa Birch second and third generation of a

very long occupation.