Haim Watzman Beware of Israelis who call for unity. More often than not, what they really mean is “everyone should unite around my political program.” In yesterday’s Ha’aretz, Moshe Arens calls for unity with an invocation of American revolutionary rhetoric (”Divided We Fall”). Yet his bottom line is that unity means acceding to the agenda [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg Dov, the guy who owns the hole-in-the-wall computer lab, explained to Elliott and me that the operating system was only in English; he didn’t have Arabic Windows. As for service, he said, that would be no problem, "as long as he brings it here." Unfortunately, Muhammad Abu Arkub, to whom we were delivering [...]

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