In fact, I'm thinking of starting a new web-site to deal with broader issues of censorship and radical editorials. Until it gets shut off, the internet is the only place where real freedom of speech, outside the corporate shadow, reigns. Israel is a physically beautiful country. It is a democracy. But is very poor and locked in what seems to an intractable and tragic problem.
Beauty abounds in the architecture of the place, in the most common wall, pathway, mosque, orchard.
This is one thing that seems to separate us from Europe. There they understand that beauty is a paramount aspect of our lives. In Europe, life comes first, things second. I visited Jerusalem. Within a few city blocks are the holiest spots of three world religions.