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The Missing Mahatma: Searching for a Palestinian Gandhi

March 29th, 2009 · 24 Comments · Culture and Ideas, Judaism and Religion, Politics and Policy

Gershom Gorenberg If Palestinians adopted a Gandhian nonviolent strategy, could they reshape the entire conflict with Israel and finally realize a two-state solution? If so, why haven’t they done so? Or perhaps they really have at certain times and places, and Israel has broken that form of resistance as well? Those questions have been asked [...]

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Requiem for Sini, and for the Labor Party

December 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics and Policy

Gershom Gorenberg My new piece on the Labor Party is up at The American Prospect: Sini died. My son spotted the square black-bordered obituary notice deep inside the newspaper. It was placed by Sini’s kibbutz. It referred to him as “Sini,” his nickname — “Chinaman” in loose translation, politically incorrect today but accepted when he [...]

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