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Jews themselves are torn by Israel’s behavior. Many have predicted for decades that Israel could not be Israel and swallow the West Bank. Israel’s “solution” has been to repopulate the West Bank with Israelis and push Palestinians out. Many of us never bought into that “solution”. From what Israelis have told me, Israel made no effort to integrate the populations, to school them together or share space. Israeli policy has been to separate the populations and squeeze the Palestinians out.
We talk a lot about judicial activism. Rarely have we seen it in as pure a form as in Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s courtroom. In the middle of a criminal trial of ten people accused of conspir...
A federal judge has, in her comments, speculated that the 13th Amendment could provide a constitutional basis for a right to abortion, and now is facing backlash since her opinion runs "against the text, history, and case law" of the Constitution.