Yoav Peck
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Jul 12, 2018, 1:37 PM
Empathy for Gazelles
I have always wondered how it is possible that the Jewish people, including the Israelis, can allow another people to endure what we no longer have to. How strange that just at the 1948 moment when we Jews brought to...
Jun 9, 2018, 1:17 AM
Razan Al-Najjar
This courageous young woman was killed last Friday by one of Israel's snipers. According to witnesses, she was wearing her white paramedic’s uniform, attempting to treat protesters near the fence when she was shot. Her story, her life has gone...
May 27, 2018, 9:57 PM
Drain the Swamp
My Sodastream appliance proffered the last portion of CO2 gas, this evening, to make me soda. Selzer, two-cents-plain. God's most thirst-quenching drink, with a squeeze of lime. I walked to the supermarket with the empty gas canister, and by...
Apr 3, 2018, 7:51 AM
Passover, 2018
On Passover eve, the festival of freedom, Israel killed 16 young Palestinians in Gaza. 750 more were wounded by 100 snipers who were brought in to do the job. They lay on high walls of earth and opened fire,...
Feb 21, 2018, 3:32 PM
A Moment with Gamliel
Surgery ward at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, Jerusalem I broke out of the hospital for two hours tonight. I'm in for another of my increasingly frequent bouts with a blocked intestine. Till now, each hospital drama lasts 3 days and...
Jan 9, 2018, 2:17 PM
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Challenging the almost certain future
The Semitic keffiyeh, invented by Erez Safar. (TheSemitic.com)
A young Jewish settler and terror victim willing to talk to a Palestinian from Hebron? Impossible, right?
Dec 7, 2017, 4:01 PM
Jerusalem Aflame
When I was born, a Palestinian family lived where my house now stands. My Jerusalem neighborhood, Kiryat Yovel, was built during the 1950s on the lands of the Palestinian village Beit Mazmil. The residents of Beit Mazmil were driven...
Nov 10, 2017, 10:35 PM
Beyond Hope
The hope that glowed from folks' faces at last night's Sulha gathering had nothing to do with empty waiting, helplessness, or "someday…." The tears of joy in the eyes of the 60 Palestinians and Israelis who converged on Eco-ME,...
Nov 4, 2017, 9:46 AM
A Kumbayah Moment or a Political Rally?
Fascinating and troubling, the public debate leading up to tomorrow's memorial ceremony marking 22 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The media are full of this discussion. Commanders for Israel's Security and Darkenu, ("Our path"), who assumed responsibility...
Oct 22, 2017, 8:49 PM
Conquest
I used to identify as an American, until my heart was conquered by Israel. I fell in love with this country and its people, in 1972, and made myself at home here. I have lived on kibbutz, worked in...
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About Me
Born and raised in New York/New Jersey, BA from Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, MA in organizational psychology. Aliya in 1973, 15 years member of Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi, former national director of AACI. Three kids, three grandchildren, living in Jerusalem since '88.