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		<title>The Fall of the House of Assad?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The American Prospect: Bashar al-Assad has not yet fallen. I note this only because of the tone of inevitability in some news reports on Syria&#8217;s civil war. The downfall of Tunisia&#8217;s Ben Ali, Egypt&#8217;s Hosni Mubarak, and Libya&#8217;s Moammar Gadhafi may be no more predictive than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a Cross-Sitter &#8212; &#8220;Necessary Stories&#8221; column from The Jerusalem Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haim Watzman To the respected Torah scholar, Rabbi Rosencrantz, may he live a good and long life, amen: I would not disturb you at your studies were it not that the problem I face is pressing and the agony of my soul no longer bearable. Nor would I dare to write you under a false [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incompetent or Delusional? You Decide!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg In my latest American Prospect column, I show that the Republican candidates for president or either incompetent or delusional in their grasp of world affairs. But which is it: Are they D students, or do they live in an alternate universe? And which one&#8217;s delusions put him the most parsecs from Earth? You, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unstocking the Characters: Thoughts on Three New Works of Short Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haim Watzman I almost stopped reading Aurelie Sheehan’s short story “Recognition” after the first sentence. Oh, God, another piece of fiction about a writer, written by a writer who only knows how to write about writing for an incestuous circle of other writers. But I had a rare opportunity to dip into some short fiction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>44 Years Is Not a Short-Term Rental</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The contradiction at the heart of Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch&#8217;s ruling on occupation Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The American Prospect: I&#8217;d really like to be angry at Dorit Beinisch, the chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court. On the eve of her retirement, Beinisch abandoned her role of pushing the Israeli [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2012/01/44-years-is-not-a-short-term-rental/</link>
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		<title>Winter &#8212; &#8220;Necessary Stories&#8221; column from The Jerusalem Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haim Watzman “Can I get some cooperation here?” asks Yoel in the firm but plaintive voice of a reserve platoon commander. Tourjeman, Brosh, and I are sitting like three monkeys (bald, sandy blond, bearded; wiry, fit, and flabby) on a small mound at the foot of the dusty spur that we’ve been charging up all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2012/01/winter-necessary-stories-column-from-the-jerusalem-report/</link>
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		<title>Candidates for Worst Political PR&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg The Israeli political right is wont to argue that Israel&#8217;s only real problem is PR. We&#8217;re doing the all the right things; we&#8217;re the only real democracy in the Middle East; we want peace and the Palestinians don&#8217;t, they proved that in 1947 when they rejected the partition plan and &#8211; so goes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2011/12/candidates-for-worst-political-pr/</link>
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		<title>The Monster Rebels against Its Master</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2011/12/the-monster-rebels-against-its-master/</link>
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		<title>A Response to +972&#8242;s Joseph Dana and Noam Sheizaf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg The following is a response to two pieces that appeared at +972, and is cross-posted there. Links to Dana&#8217;s and Sheizaf&#8217;s pieces appear in the body of my reply. Dana&#8217;s reply to me is below, followed by my reply to him, which is not yet up at +972. &#160; I’ve recently read Joseph’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2011/12/a-response-to-972s-joseph-dana-and-noam-sheizaf/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Unmaking of Israel&#8217; in Newsweek&#8217;s 10 Mind-Blowing Books of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The lastest issue of Newsweek has a spread on on its writers&#8217; 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&#8217;s longer listing of top reads for the year. If you&#8217;re in Israel and can&#8217;t find [...]]]></description>
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