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When my previous post about the checkpoint at Sheikh Sa’eb was published in July, in slightly different form, I received an angry email from a friend of a friend. An excerpt: “If the IDF says we need all of them [the checkpoints], who are you to say they’re wrong? Where do you get off giving […]
Is there really “no one to talk to?” Maybe, maybe not…
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