There is a phrase that has become almost a battle cry among the far-left anti-Israel base. You have heard it on the street at protests and read it on placards: ‘from the river to the sea.’

Now, what river and what sea, they couldn’t tell you. But between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, there are people living lives: people who get up in the morning, go to work, and raise children. This is about some of them.

In 1995, Dr Ami Cohen, a cardiac surgeon at the Wolfson Medical Centre in Holon, began bringing children to Israel for heart surgery. These were children from Gaza, from Iraq, from countries that to this day do not recognise the very existence of the State of........

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