The compound growth rate
714,000 settlers. It was 110,000 at Oslo. 250,000 at Camp David. 500,000 when Kerry’s initiative collapsed. The growth rate has been remarkably consistent — roughly five percent per year, across Labor and Likud, during negotiations and wars....
4 a.m. in the South Hebron Hills
The bulldozer arrives before dawn. A family of eleven watches an IDF escort clear the perimeter around their home — declared illegal because the Civil Administration denied every building permit over twenty years. By sunrise the house is rubble....
Sadako
Sadako Sasaki was two years old on August 6, 1945, living about a mile from the hypocenter. She survived the blast. Ten years later she developed leukemia. She folded paper cranes in her hospital bed — a thousand, she believed, and she would be healed. She died at twelve....