The Meaning of the Gaza Bombing

Trudy Rubin

Gaza bombing shattered illusions of a peace effort

Philadelphia inquirer
Posted on Sun, Jul. 28, 2002
By Trudy Rubin

When an Israeli plane dropped a one-ton bomb on an apartment building in Gaza last week, it killed more t

Stephen Farrell

Palestinian ceasefire plan lies buried in the rubble of Gaza

From Stephen Farrell in Jerusalem
London Time
July 24, 2002

WESTERN diplomats believe they were within hours of clinching an unprecedented Palestinian commit

Alex Fishman

Why did the Gaza bombing happen exactly when key Palestinian groups that were using terror had committed themselves to stop?

The two articles that follow took up two full pages of Yediot Achronot, a mass-circulation israeli newsp

Rabbi Arthur Waskow

In 1967, to explain why he was speaking out against the Vietnam War, Rabbenu Abraham Joshua Heschel told the story of a young Polish Hassidic boy who cried when he read the story of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Isaac.

"Why are you crying?" said his teacher; "You know that the angel saved Isaac's life."

"But what if the angel had come a moment too late?" said the boy.

Said Heschel: "Angels are never late. But sometimes human beings are."

We — all of us — were too late this past week.

In Gaza, on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, and the ambulance driver who tried to rescue him, as the boy's father begged them to stop shooting.