Spontaneous fission: a dispatch from Jerusalem. (Gazette).
American Prospect, The, June, 2002 by Gorenberg, Gershom
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I NOTICED IT THE FIRST TIME ONE day when I took a cab downtown. I avoid buses; they blow up on occasion. Next to the Old City walls, the taxi turned left off King Solomon Street. And there, at the start of Jaffa Road (West Jerusalem's main street), a police van was parked at an angle across the asphalt and a metal police barricade left just one lane open.
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A cop with an M-16 rifle stood eyeballing each car that rolled by. He let us pass without stopping. Neither the driver nor I looked Palestinian. I glanced back to make sure: Yes, there was really a checkpoint framed between the ...
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