Camp Jenin has not collapsed. Houses were destroyed, people killed, and while it turns out there was no mass slaughter there, all is now one huge black hole. No, not a grave for Palestinians. The black hole is rather something directed at Israel, spotlighting what has been there all this time, in its face.

It used to be a land with a thrilling epic of exodus, as told in Leon Uris's novel; it used to be a piece of free earth for the victimize