understand what these men mean when they speak of the settlement blocs, look at this map from B’Tselem. It shows the Israeli barrier crisscrossing through the West Bank mostly east of the old Green Line. In a number of cases, the barrier juts out into the West Bank to include Ma’ale Adumim near Jerusalem, Gush Etzion around Bethlehem, and Ariel near Nablus. And the shaded area in the Jordan Valley is something else entirely: military occupation that Israel says it will not end, to defend itself on the east.A white police officer shot and wounded an off-duty black officer who had been trying to help with an arrest in St. Louis last week, a “friendly fire” shooting that again drew national attention to the role race plays in decisions by law enforcement officials to open fire.

The shooting took place around 10 p.m. on June 21 when officers tried to stop a car that had been reported stolen, Lawrence O’Toole, the interim police chief of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, said in a statement. Three people in the car opened fire at the officers, then fled on foot when the vehicle crashed. After an exchange of gunfire with the police, one of the suspects was shot in the ankle.

The off-duty officer, a 38-year-old black man with