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Two Years Later, Israeli Parents Confront the Costs of War About a week ago a middle-aged Israeli woman named Miri Kanar with curly light-brown hair and a soft, gentle voice that befits her profession as a kindergarten teacher made the decision to drive from her village in central Israel to her son’s army base on the border with Gaza. Her mission? To speak to her son, a tank driver, her middle son of three, and convince him not to go into Gaza as planned the following day. She was prepared to block his tank with her own body if that’s what it would take. A few days earlier four of his friends were killed when an explosive device was tossed into their tank. The oldest of the four killed was 21. Kanar did not manage to convince her son or his commander, or even to see her son in person. So instead, writing through tears from the steps outside the base, she poured her heart out into a Facebook post. |
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Dina Kraft is a journalist, podcaster and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, My Friend Anne Frank, together with Hannah Pick-Goslar. She lives in Tel Aviv where she's the Israel Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor and a creator of the podcast Groundwork, about activists working in Israel and Palestine. She was formerly the opinion editor of Haaretz English. |
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Legislative Round-Up, September 26, 2025 ————————— 1. Bills & Resolutions (RECOGNIZE PALESTINE!) S. Res. 410: Introduced 9/18/25 by Merkley (D-OR) and having 9 cosponsors (8 Democrats, 1 Independent), “A resolution calling on the President to recognize a demilitarized State of Palestine, as consistent with international law and the principles of a two-state solution, alongside a secure State of Israel.” Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Also see: |
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