The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas offers temporary peace at best. An agreement leading to permanent peace remains a long way off. But it is no dream particularly if both observers and supporters of the Palestinians help nudge the parties along by not abusing words blindly targeting Israel.
Proportionality. Hamas sent toward Israel 4,000
unguided missiles. Some landed in Gaza. Many were destroyed. Others struck Israeli civilians. Israel targeted Hamas military, intelligence and/or communications facilities to stop those attacks and delay the next wave. Tit for tat would have enabled thousands more rockets to strike Israel.
Apartheid. Israeli Arabs often do not enjoy equal protection under the law, but South Africa Israel is not. Israeli Arabs serve in the Knesset, have served on the Supreme Court, occupy positions in medicine, law and the arts. Israeli security measures against West Bank attacks often are heavy-handed but, sadly, necessary. Note that Palestinians in the We
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But what happened next is telling about the state of our culture, for the wrong reasons.
The explosion in Gorman’s visibility necessitated the need for international translations, as publishers prepared to ship her books to audiences all over the world. This is standard practice, and authors generally find the ability of their work to reach people of different cultures and continents to be one of the most gratifying parts of bringing a book into the world.
But with Gorman, that process hit a snag.
First, Gorman’s Dutch translator, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, who as a novelist won the 2020 International Booker Prize, resigned from the assignment to translate both “The Hill We Climb” and Gorman’s forthcoming first poetry collection, following vociferous criticism that they were not black. (Rijneveld uses the pronouns “they” and “them.”) This, despite the fact that Gorman herself had approved the choice of Rijneveld as one of her translators.