Out of the Past

by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1994 All rights reserved.
“My Christmas was bean soup without bread. The boys are not seeing a good deal of fun,” wrote Johnny Jackman in his diary 146 years ago.
A trooper in the 9th Kentucky of the Confederacy, Jackman’s lean Christmas was shared by thousands of other young American men in [...]

At the core of the conflict is the reality that redress for the Jewish victims of centuries of European pogroms, which culminated in the Holocaust, made victims out of Palestinians, non-Europeans who had nothing to do with the repression of Jews on the Continent….
…the majority of Gaza’s inhabitants are refugees (or their descendants) who were [...]