Look east or west from Kibbutz Gadot, and mountains point toward the sky. To the west, across the valley, rise the Galilee hills. On the east, the stark climb of the land is even closer, right past the creek, neither deep nor wide, known as the Jordan River. In June, the air is hot, quiet, and he...
says the fax. At the top is the coat of arms of the Civil Administration, the branch of the IDF that governs the West Bank. Dated August 12, 2007, it is a response to a human rights researcher’s freedom-of-information request. The five bland bureaucratic sentences on the page are a confession of ...