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I Am Yusuf and This Is My Brother: a conversation with Amir Nizar Zuabi

"If you ask me, Shakespeare is political, but not in the shallow sense of preaching or persuading you to think in one way."
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The Idan Raichel Project: music for a splintered Israel

In our brief talk, as well as in his other interviews, there is no sign of an apology for where he’s from, no liberal guilt.
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What Rabin’s legacy means for the likes of Netanyahu and Obama

Beyond his status as a cipher, what is left of Rabin?
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London Film Festival: claustrophobia and carnage in “Lebanon”

Director Samuel Maoz suffocates his young conscripts in the oily belly of their fearsome machine.
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London Film Festival: “Ajami” is intense, over-wrought

Dando’s story is all the more sobering with the video of Sgt. Gilad Shalit released by Hamas militants recently.
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Netanyahu: busy deflecting the Goldstone Report with Iran

“How dare they equate us to Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist group? We’re the most moral army in the world!"
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MASA, Netanyahu and Israeli ambivalence toward peace

The biggest danger: marrying a non-Jew. Fear the shiksa, if you will.
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Arab reaction to Obama’s Middle East policy: an excerpt

The tone and body language were of a kind that Arabs have not seen in years.
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One State, Two States: a review

The problem with Morris's thesis is his argument that democracy has never taken root in Palestine.
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Netanyahu’s speech: a tepid answer to Obama

If indeed Netanyahu seeks to start these negotiations, his way of bringing his counterparts to the table is through shaming them.
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