Haim Watzman Here at South Jerusalem we’re proud that we provide our own commentary and eschew the “Wow! [link]” 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 [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg If you want to understand why Rev. Jeremiah Wright said the US government invented Aids, or what Barack Obama sought to accomplish in his Philadelphia speech on race, the best commentary is political scientist Marc Howard Ross’s book “Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict” – even if it never mentions Obama or Wright. I [...]

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