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Readers had trouble seeing what I was referring to in my last post, Invisible Land. Here are some snips.  Here is Longman’s shot. I’ve circled where the wall is located. His shot was taken in the evening on a somewhat cloudy day, so the circled location is relatively dark, rendering the wall hard to see…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. No, it’s none of those, but I am glad you’re giving the Israelis a taste of their own medicine by erecting a haphazard set of security walls directly in the most tourist-dense parts of Jerusalem. So while none of those are…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Okay, I’ve marked three lines, in red, green, and blue. Is it one of those? “The wall cuts through Jerusalem but is actually designed to be invisible from the nicer parts of the city.” Kind of like what us…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. No, dammit. I should not have said it was “partially obscured by a tree.” It’s partially obscured by the trees (plural) beyond this one in the foreground. On the left-hand side of your oval, there is a cl…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Is this it, or have I missed it? LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I referred to The Tory as “the” conservative publication, but actually, there were two. The other one was The Princeton Sentinel, edited by Ruth Shalit, and featuring Ted Cruz. By comparison with them, we were con…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I had half-resolved not to tell this story, but your bringing up Alan Paton now makes it impossible to resist. When I was an undergrad, I decided to write for and help edit The Princeton Tory, the campus conservative magaz…

To paraphrase Alan Paton: “Ah, But Your Land Is Invisible.” LikeLike