New Middle East Blog. Writers Gershom Gorenberg ("The Accidental Empire," "End of Days," and a frequent contributor to The American Prospect, NY Times, etc.) and Haim Watzman ("Company C," "A Crack in the Earth") have launched a new blog: South Jerusalem. Gorenberg writes today on it on last week's attack on a Jerusalem yeshiva:

.... The sound of the newspaper page as I turn it is a whisper: The season of killing has not ended. There was a lull, like a few sunny days in the midst of the winter rains in Jerusalem. We must think about whether the children should ride the bus, whether to set appointments in cafes. I went and had coffee this morning anyway on Emek Refaim. An act of sumud, sticking to the soil.

Of course there has not even been a lull in the killing in Gaza or in Sderot. The dead of one’s own city are more noticeable, and the dead of one’s own side: No Israeli paper prints a long line of pictures of those who died on a given day in Gaza. The one-sided mourning is inevitable, and is a dangerous illusion. The tragedies are indivisible. ...

It's a site that will be of interest to many readers closely following Middle Eastern events. (Link fixed, apologies).

Posted by Laura at March 9, 2008 07:25 AM