Bradley Burston, a longtime columnist for Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, is a recipient of the Eliav-Sartawi Award for Mideast Journalism, presented at the United Nations in 2006.

His columns have been quoted in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker, The Nation, Politico, and Dissent. He has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, NPR, ABC Nightline and CNN.

Burston was the Gaza Strip correspondent for the Jerusalem Post during the founding of Hamas and the first Palestinian uprising of the late 1980s. He then served as the paper’s Military Correspondent in the 1991 Gulf War. He covered Middle East peace talks and Israeli politics for the Reuters news agency during the 1990s. Beginning in 2000, he was a founding editor of the Haaretz English online edition, which featured his column, “A Special Place in Hell,” from which this collection was compiled.

Photo: 'Leibowitz was right ! ליבוביץ' צדק'