A Child Dies In The Killing Fields of Gaza
by James M. Wall History is filled with narratives about killing fields. This troubled writer looks at the killing fields of Gaza, and is driven to begin with a story: “A man kills his mother and his...
View ArticleAhed Tamimi Completes High School in Prison
by James M. Wall Ahed Tamimi (right) and her mother Nariman were released from an Israel prison Sunday. They had served dual eight-months sentences. Ahed, a 17-year-old teenager, left her cell and...
View ArticleTrump and the Repackaged Oslo Accord
by James M. Wall We live in a world saturated by the manifestation of evil. Genesis tells the origin story. The story starts with Adam succumbing to the temptation of desire for the forbidden. The...
View ArticleRamzy Baroud: “My people will never accept this.”
by James M. Wall The Israelis want the Palestinians to give up their right of return in order to get “peace”. The joint Israeli-American “vision” for the Palestinians basically means the imposition of...
View ArticleIsrael’s Uri Avnery Dies Too Soon at 94
by James M. Wall Uri Avnery died at age 94 on August 20, 2018, two weeks after a stroke sent him to a Tel Aviv hospital. He died too soon. Israel, Palestine, and the world, still need his passionate...
View ArticleThanksgiving Good News from Palestine
by James M. Wall I have it on good authority that almost the only Thanksgiving celebrations in Palestine this week are those enjoyed by U.S. expats, that is, those who “leave one’s native country to...
View ArticleWhy MLK Would Back Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
by James M. Wall Juan Cole’s column, published today on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, links King to 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress....
View ArticleChildren and IDF are Israeli Occupation Pawns
By James M. Wall There are times when one picture says it all. This picture at right shows a terrified Palestinian child between two Israeli soldiers who, from my perspective, are ashamed of what they...
View Article“Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere”
by James M. Wall “Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere”, launches the poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882). Those opening words...
View Article2020 Choice: “In Your Face” or “Weasel Words”
Posted on July 7, 2019 by wallwritings by James M. Wall On Sunday, June 16, leaders of the nationalist bromance between Israel and the Trump government took one small step for tyranny and one huge step...
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