by Matthew Friedman | Nov 26, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
The truce began today. I choose to call it this, since there is something ghoulish about the word “pause.” That sounds like a brief, unexpected, and unwelcomed interruption, like when the referee in a boxing match “pauses” the fight just long enough to be sure that...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 5, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
“We have an obligation to bear witness to suffering. Yet, if that witness is to have any meaning apart from passively registering the fact of the suffering, it must repudiate the violence that caused the suffering and speak against the power that deployed the...