Or, 'How Federman visited a War Zone and couldn't figure out why there were walls everywhere.'

Local Jewish Voice for Peace leader, Marty Federman, the "religious Jew" who spent a recent Sabbath denouncing Israel and has his letters published in the local Jewish Advocate on a regular basis far out of proportion to the percentage of Jewish opinion he represents, was recently on a trip to Israel with a "Cambridge delegation" and has had his journals published online starting here: Marty Federman's 2007 Visit Journal - Entry # 1. He must have been travelling with some nefarious characters as he expresses surprise that more of them weren't delayed entering the country.

In fact, Federman was given a bit of extra attention when he got there. Maybe on his next trip he'll get a bit more. Lots of talk about walls and difficulties, no talk at all about the reasons the walls (a recent phenomenon) were built.

From Part 4:

It's only those uppity-Jews they have a problem with -- Jews who have the temerity to express the same nationalist aspirations as anyone else. It never occurs that what he's really saying in being against "Zionists," is that he's (and many others that Federman meets) against the existance of the state next door. Zion's existence, after all, is no longer theoretical. And that his desire to see that state destroyed leads he and his neighbors, even if they themselves don't throw the bombs, to sit back and do nothing when others do the dirty work for them. And so the wall goes up, and these guys pose as peaceniks to useful tools just because they personally don't pull the trigger.

No wonder they're suffering. They're in the middle of war they're doing nothing to stop.