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Make a Moral Wilderness Bloom

Rick Perlstein · 12 Oct 2026

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  1. Our reading

    PayPal treats Palestinians as if they are all money launderers for ISIS.

    Their wordsThe reason for this Rube Goldberg arrangement is that PayPal, basically, acts like all Palestinians must be ISIS money launderers or something; his own accounts get randomly canceled all the time.

  2. Our reading

    Forests planted by the Jewish National Fund were often specifically planted to obscure the sites of depopulated Palestinian villages.

    Their wordsI later learned from a Palestinian friend that these forests were often specifically planted to obscure the sites of depopulated Palestinian villages, whose remains can be made out.

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