Among Cousins

In These TimesJuly 01, 2010

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"You should speak with Christians," he says. "When they're alone, they can tell you what's really in their hearts. No matter what they say in public, Christians are more afraid of living in an Islamic Palestine than under us."

"A Palestinian state alongside Israel solves nothing," she says. "The Israelis will never give up the advantages they've seized."

"It's a terrible thing," says [Amos], referring to the occupation and the wall surrounding Palestine, "but not as terrible as having to send [Naftali]'s volunteers out on even one more mission scouring blood from a Tel Aviv bus stop or picking through the smoking rubble of a Jerusalem market recovering remnants of burnt Jewish flesh."

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Among Cousins

NAFTALI FINDS ME IN THE lobby bar of the Jerusalem Grand Court, a utilitarian tourist hotel on formerly Arab-controlled land just east of BarLev Avenue, which until June, 1967, marked the green line separating Israel and Jordan.

He's in his mid-fifties, with a medium-pale complexion, hazel eyes, thinning brown hair and a scraggly grey beard that is nearly down to his chest.

Naftali's grandfather and my grandmother were first cousins in Poland. After ...

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