United in rejection
Michael Jansen The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
3 hours ago The group American Muslims for Palestine rally in support of Palestine at Gould Avenue Park, in Paterson, N.J. Several years ago I went to the town of Ramleh in central Israel to interview a Palestinian woman employed by the New Israel Fund, a human rights organisation working for coexistence between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Israelis. A tall, rather severe woman dressed in black, Bouthaina took me on a walking tour of the Palestinian sector of the town, pausing at a wide empty expanse covered in gravel where homes had been bulldozed fairly recently and Palestinian Israelis forced to leave their homes.