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In my latest piece for Souciant, I look at the very wide gap between Israel’s collective stance on the Palestinian Nakba and the understanding of events most Israelis have of that piece of history. It has been my experience that, while the average American, Jewish or not, is quite ignorant of the facts surrounding the [...]

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In my latest piece for Souciant, I continue with my recent theme of where to go now that the two-state solution has been rendered moot. Using a recent article by Yossi Alpher as a foil, I examine some of the reasons the Oslo process failed, a process that need not have been the only route [...]

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In my latest piece for Souciant, I explore the meaning of Iceland’s resolution recognizing both Palestinian statehood and the Palestinian Right of Return and Bernard Avishai’s recent piece on RoR, which I posted here. For readers’ reference, since RoR is such a controversial subject, my own view of the issue can be seen in this [...]

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Harpers’ Magazine only put this in their print edition. I offer here a pdf file of Bernard Avishai’s piece exploring the question of the Palestinian Right of Return. I’m not sure about his proposed solution, but the very fact that the subject is being taken seriously in a mainstream US publication and by the pen of a noted [...]

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When writing about President Obama’s speech on Thursday, I got one thing very wrong. I wrote: “Bibi will not have anything here to fight with Obama about tomorrow.” Well, that was wrong; but not as much as you might think. As MJ Rosenberg pointed out in his Friday column, a lot of this anger is [...]

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