IN THE THICK OF IT
Joshua Hammer arrived at Azur Junction just two hours after Khalil Abu Ulbah had plowed his bus into a crowd of Israelis. “But there was nothing there but angry demonstrators–and a pack of reporters,” says Hammer. So he set off for Gaza, and reported his riveting portrait of Abu Ulbah (page 42). Hammer has been in the Mideast just one month, after a year in Berlin. “I’m living the story in Jeru-salem,” he says. “In Berlin, you’d get on a plane, go cover something and then come home to a relatively peaceful existence.”
WASHINGTON INSIDERS
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