Lay of the Land Weekly Newsletter- 25 February 2024

Unveiling the contours and contrasts of an ever-changing Middle East landscape Reliable reportage and insightful commentary on the Middle East by seasoned journalists from the region and beyond

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THE ISRAEL BRIEF- 19-22 February 2024
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Lay of the Land’s Picture of the Week

With at least 134 Israeli hostages still held captive in Gaza, spirited Israeli soldiers like these
gesturing in their tank on the border with southern Gaza on February 15, 2024,
are not going anywhere. (Photo: Amir Cohen/Reuters)




Articles

(1)

WILL ISRAEL’S GAZA BORDER BECOME THE NEXT ‘DARK TOURISM’ DESTINATION?

Millions of tourists around the globe travel every year to some of the most depressing places on Earth: sites of horror, tragedies, disasters, and monstrous death.
By Motti Verses 

Sounds to Slaughter. The site of a music festival for peace and unity will forever – following the Hamas
massacre – be embedded in Jewish history as another place antisemites set about
for the mass extermination of Jews.

WILL ISRAEL’S GAZA BORDER BECOME THE NEXT ‘DARK TOURISM’ DESTINATION?
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(2)

LETTER FROM ISRAEL AT WAR – WEEK 20

Who should adjudicate the crimes committed by UNRWA and its complicity in the October 7 massacre?
By Harris Zvi Green

UN’der UNRWA. “We did not know,” responded UNRWA head, pleading ignorance after Hamas data
center found under agency’s HQ. This follows multiple IDF discoveries of entrances
from UNRWA schools to Hamas subterranean terror tunnels.

LETTER FROM ISRAEL AT WAR – WEEK 20
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SHORT-SIGHTED SOUTH AFRICA

Looking East instead of West, South Africa’s ruling ANC fails to see ills closer to home
By Kenneth Mokgatlhe

Close-Up on Chaos. South Africa’s ruling ANC is today unrecognizable from the once esteemed party of
Mandela. Were South Africa’s foreign policy to be premised on the principles and values of human
rights, why are its closest friends today mostly human rights violators and terrorists?

SHORT-SIGHTED SOUTH AFRICA
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LOTL Cofounders David E. Kaplan (Editor), Rolene Marks and Yair Chelouche
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