Jerusalem, from The Mount of Olives
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Bradley
Burston, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, wrote the other
day: “This year, for Hanukkah, I want one person running this country, this
Israel, to show me one scrap of light. One move — any move — for freedom, for
all the peoples who live here. One step — no matter how slight — in the
direction of a better future. What makes this Hanukkah different from all
others? It’s the dark. It’s the sense that this country — beset by enemies,
beset by itself — has locked down every single door against the future, and
sealed shut every last window against hope. ... This country has begun to feel
like a lamp whose body is cracked and whose light seems all but spent. On these
long nights, we can make out little but an occupation growing ever more
permanent, and a democracy growing ever more temporary.”
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