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Reengaging with Gush Katif

Seven years after Israel's disengagement from Gaza, many of the forcibly evicted Jewish residents remain homeless, jobless, and abandoned by the State which promised to support them.Fishing for Philistines

Goliath’s kinsmen fed on dogs and pigs, enjoyed beer, and . . . took opium?  Reengaging with Gush Katif

Time for Population Separation

Syria and Lebanon will soon be reconfigured into Sunni, Alawite, Christian, Druse, and Kurdish states—righting the wrong perpetrated by the French many decades ago. Ecce Maslow

When Abraham Maslow’s mother found her son feeding stray kittens milk from one of her good dishes, she dashed the tiny animals’ brains out. Maslow wondered why he didn’t turn out psychotic. Covering For Csatáry

Until last week, the Hungarian government was content to let the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s most-wanted Nazi war criminal live out his days in peace without ever standing trial.Wade in the Water

With demands on the Jordan River from three countries, the biblical-era torrent has become a mere polluted stream. But Israel is planning to restore it to its former glory.Calumny and “Closure”

Struggling to remain impartial, a writer’s memoir of a summer in Lithuania ends up little more than a collage of wide-eyed postcards from a land whose history she struggles, and mostly fails, to decipher.