This is Who We Really Are: Americans and 'Israelis' Must Come to Terms With Reality
NOVANEWS
DALE SPRUSANSKY
Native American women participate in a march in San Diego, CA to protest the separation of children from their immigrant parents by U.S. officials, June 23, 2018. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2018, pp. 40-41, 53
Special Report
By Dale Sprusansky
“THIS IS NOT WHO WE ARE.” It’s a refrain that has been repeated ad nauseam by professional commentators and everyday Americans alike in response to the Trump administration’s decision to separate undocumented immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Such a retort to the indecency of separating families is natural, as no respectable person wants to be identified with a collective group—be it national or otherwise—that commits such an...