Gershom Gorenberg The Israeli political right is wont to argue that Israel’s only real problem is PR. We’re doing the all the right things; we’re the only real democracy in the Middle East; we want peace and the Palestinians don’t, they proved that in 1947 when they rejected the partition plan and – so goes [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The American Prospect: The mob numbered about 200 young and angry people. Some had covered their faces. They gathered on a West Bank road near midnight and hurled stones at passing cars. Israeli troops, including the commander of the division in charge of the area and his [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg The following is a response to two pieces that appeared at +972, and is cross-posted there. Links to Dana’s and Sheizaf’s pieces appear in the body of my reply. Dana’s reply to me is below, followed by my reply to him, which is not yet up at +972.   I’ve recently read Joseph’s [...]

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The lastest issue of Newsweek has a spread on on its writers’ choices for the top 10 books of the year. The Unmaking of Israel is on the list, picked by Peter Beinart: The online version is the Daily Beast’s longer listing of top reads for the year. If you’re in Israel and can’t find [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg Excerpts from my new column at Hadassah Magazine: Dear L——, Please don’t give up on Israel. And please give me a chance to explain before you hit the delete button. I know, your last e-mail virtually asked me not to write this one. You said that you were tired of news about growing [...]

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Haim Watzman 10 July 1922 To the editor of Kuntres: My fellow music lovers in the Yishuv, tilling the land and laboring on the roads as they whistle and hum the works of the great composers, will no doubt be interested to hear of my encounter with the man who is perhaps the most notable [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The American Prospect: The women banter with the soldiers and get through the checkpoint carrying bombs in their handbags. We see them in black and white, which sharpens the lines in their faces and shows their fear more starkly. They arrive at their target. One enters a [...]

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