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		<title>McCarthyism on the Mediterranean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg﻿
A bit delayed, I&#8217;m posting my American Prospect article on the latest, nutty attacks from the Israeli right on universities, NGOs, and even wanting natural gas producers to pay the government for the gas they extract:
During a decade in Israel&#8217;s Parliament, Michael Melchior made his name  as an effective legislator. The rabbi and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excuse Me, Is This the Road to Peace?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg﻿
The terror attack south of Hebron took place a few hours after I filed my curtain-raiser on the Washington peace talks for the American Prospect. Besides my pain at hearing of the deaths, I also had a tinge of professional self-criticism: Without intending to, I&#8217;d made a prediction of quiet in the West Bank, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/09/excuse-me-is-this-the-road-to-peace/</link>
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		<title>Sendoff for My Son &#8212; &#8220;Necessary Stories&#8221; column from The Jerusalem Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haim Watzman 
Dear Niot,
The scene at your enlistment next Monday will not be as dramatic as your grandfather’s. He set off for infantry boot camp in the U.S. Army on February 19, 1944. His entire family—Ma, Pa, and sisters Jean, Bernice, and Laki—accompanied him to the train station at Cleveland’s Terminal Tower. Your great-grandmother and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/08/sendoff-for-my-son-necessary-stories-column-from-the-jerusalem-report/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;For the Help That You Can Bring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On meeting Haim Gouri at the shut gate to Sheikh Jarrah
Gershom Gorenberg﻿
My new article on the Sheikh Jarrah demonstrations is up at The American Prospect. This was written just before yesterday&#8217;s demo, which I&#8217;d guess drew between 500 and 1,000 people &#8211; a large increase from previous protests. During Ramadan, the demos will be held [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/08/for-the-help-that-you-can-bring/</link>
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		<title>Won&#8217;t You Please Come to Sheikh Jarrah&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg﻿



Stop the Racism: Show Solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah, August 6, 4 p.m.


It&#8217;s been a year since the eviction of two Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah. The eviction was carried out under laws that give Jewish refugees from 1948, or whomsoever appoints themselves to act in those refugees&#8217; names, the right of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/08/wont-you-please-come-to-sheikh-jarrah/</link>
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		<title>With a Little Help From My Friends (or: Judaism as Justice)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg﻿
I know that today is Tu Be&#8217;Av, the 15th of the Hebrew month of Av, an obscure holiday from the Second Temple period that has been secularized in Israel as the Day of Love &#8211; and that, according to Chana Pinchasi, should really be understood as an assertion of women&#8217;s freedom and a rejection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/07/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends-or-judaism-as-justice/</link>
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		<title>The House at the End of the Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg﻿
My new piece is up at The American Prospect:
Dror Etkes picked me up in front of the bank, next to the convenience  store, on a normal Jerusalem street where nothing slows the morning  commuters except normal traffic jams. I wanted to visit the Palestinian  village of Silwad. To that, Etkes added [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/07/the-house-at-the-end-of-the-road/</link>
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		<title>Yikes! I had sex with an Arab!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haim Watzman
Here at South Jerusalem we&#8217;re proud that we provide our own commentary and eschew the &#8220;Wow! [link]&#8221; type of post that seems to typify so many blogs. But sometimes someone else says all there is to be said, in this case Yam Erez at Stand By Your Name.
Yam, I await your thoughts on Israel&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/07/yikes-i-had-sex-with-an-arab/</link>
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		<title>City of Thieves, Day of Mourning (and the Scent of Hope)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg﻿
Anshel Pfeffer&#8217;s article last week against fasting on Tisha Be&#8217;Av seemed written for me. I hate to fast. An old friend once told me that on Yom Kippur, he looks at my face in shul to get a real sense of suffering. Enough chastising the flesh. It makes you feel bad.



&#8216;There is no sanctity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/07/city-of-thieves-day-of-mourning-and-the-scent-of-hope/</link>
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		<title>Do You Know Just How Bad It Is?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg﻿
The human rights group Hamoked has posted an online quiz about the conditions faced by Palestinians living under occupation. It&#8217;s worth testing yourself. Since I would never give away answers to a test, I won&#8217;t mention that the key to a perfect score is being grimly pessimistic.
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