(original editor’s note: As this issue of Tikkun goes to press, the Cairo Document has just been signed, indicating that Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho will soon be implemented. . . . The following scenes illustrate, among other things, why movement on that accord is so necessary.)
I’m in the office of Hamdi Saraj, a freelance Palestinian journalist. We’re talking politics. . . .
As we talk, we hear shouting beneath his office window, accompanied by a volley of gunshots. Rella, his sister, interrupts us, says, “Army,” as I follow them running down the stairs. Halfway up the small street I see kids’ arms outstretched, throwing stones. . . .
The streets are now choked with people as everyone runs toward the action. . . . Everyone, I notice with surprise, is smiling or laughing as they instinctively move toward the fight, just as I...
