Palestinian residential buildings seen past the separation wall surrounding the Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, on April 14, 2020.
Karl Vick is an editor at large at TIME. He has also served as TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief. He has reported from 60 countries and in 2001 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the spread of AIDS in Africa.f it's hard to make people care about someone they've never met, it's even harder when that someone is behind a wall. But in, the journalist Nathan Thrall makes that a virtue of that.
“This place” is the territory known for centuries as Palestine, but for the last 75 years has defied simple description. In 1948, a Jewish army established the state of Israel on part of it, then 19 years later conquered the rest. The victors built an extraordinary nation while subjugating an Arab population that claims the same land.
And he opened himself up to me. We immediately had a connection, and he started kind of telling me about his entire life. It wasn't just interviewing him. It was a process of getting to know him and getting to know his whole family. There was this cloud of silence around the accident and everyone is so afraid of upsetting the bereaved that no one talks about it, and as a result he really felt hungry to talk about it. He yearns to talk about it because it made him feel closer to his son.
What do you make of the crisis in Israel? [The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is passing legislation sidelining the Supreme Court, the only check on its power. Massive weekly protests call it an, both for it and against it, is the notion that Israel is a democracy, and it exists within the pre-1967 borders.
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