Tag Archives: palestine

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

By Feature Writer | Published: January 27, 2010
"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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What Rabin’s legacy means for the likes of Netanyahu and Obama

By Feature Writer | Published: November 7, 2009
Beyond his status as a cipher, what is left of Rabin?
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London Film Festival: “Ajami” is intense, over-wrought

By Mark Farnsworth | Published: October 7, 2009
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

By Feature Writer | Published: October 3, 2009
“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

By Feature Writer | Published: September 15, 2009
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

By Nasser Ali Khasawneh | Published: August 17, 2009
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

By Jonathan Mok | Published: June 23, 2009
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

By Feature Writer | Published: June 15, 2009
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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Obama meets and greets Netanyahu

By Feature Writer | Published: May 19, 2009
...And? So? Or as they say here, nu?
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Israel’s Troika: Barak is no Barack

By Feature Writer | Published: May 6, 2009
Barak forges on, eager to present himself as both a cohesive part of the troika and its most peace-minded member.
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