Julius Purcell is Spain correspondent for the Tablet of London. He lived in Jerusalem in the late 1990s, working as a reporter for the Jerusalem Times, a Palestinian weekly. Also by this author Get Commonweal’s latest, delivered twice weekly. Email address Published in the 2004-11-19 issue: View Contents Most Recent Toward Nuclear Disarmament? By The Editors April 1, 2025 Watching Christians Celebrate Killing By David Carroll Cochran April 1, 2025 Where Politics Is Still Possible By Jonathan Malesic March 31, 2025