Mission to Israel Part X: Closing Thoughts
[This is the tenth, and final post in my series on my mission to Israel. You can read Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX.]
Our mission to Israel was on July 9 through 11. It took me nearly six weeks to publish the ten posts in this series. But it did not take me nearly that long to write them. I wrote most of the first five installments on the twelve-hour flight back from Israel. These initial posts, which focused on the legal issues, came out naturally. I could approach them somewhat objectively, and offer pointed criticisms of the Israeli legal system. But the second batch of posts took a different path.
The final installments focused on the human cost: the hostages, the surveillance footage, the kibbutz, and the music festival. With the exception of the surveillance footage, I was able to document with photographs and videos almost everything that I saw. I promptly uploaded these media to YouTube and the Volokh Conspiracy, but I didn’t hit “publish.” Instead, I sat on them. I waited. I needed time to reflect. Never before in my li
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