Ofrah is illegal. Not just under international law, like all settlements – but also under Israeli law. The evidence is piling up. Ofrah, near Ramallah, was the first bridgehead of the Gush Emunim movement in West Bank hills north of Jerusalem. Recently human-rights activists have succeeded in prying information on the settlement from government repositories, [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg NGO Monitor, Gerald Steinberg’s group, which tracks human-rights groups for anti-Israel bias, sent me its annual report. I don’t claim the resources to monitor every detail of its monitoring. But a section in the report on B’Tselem helps illuminate an underlying bias in the work of the bias-hunter. The report quotes B’Tselem Executive [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg Dov, the guy who owns the hole-in-the-wall computer lab, explained to Elliott and me that the operating system was only in English; he didn’t have Arabic Windows. As for service, he said, that would be no problem, "as long as he brings it here." Unfortunately, Muhammad Abu Arkub, to whom we were delivering [...]

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