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Where are the heroes?
A society in which soldiers who torture prisoners are widely hailed as ‘heroes,’ and those who investigate them as traitors, is in deep moral distress…
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David B. Green
Is a better future even possible?
In their superb new book about the long history of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Hussein Agha and Robert Malley want to understand why they were…
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‘A woman of distinctly Jewish type’
A chance visit to a Stockholm art exhibition introduced me to a 19th-century female Jewish painter with a 21st-century sensibility, but also served as a…
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'Zion's roads are in mourning...'
At a Tisha B'Av rally in Jerusalem, the audience was asked to hold two separate, arguably contradictory, thoughts in their minds simultaneously
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A non-reluctant pioneer
Alex Weingrod devoted a lifetime to understanding Israeli society. He did so by challenging the conventional wisdom, pursuing his career as an…
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An eighth front, a fifth column
Today, while Israel was still involved in hostilities in both Iran and Gaza, the Knesset took up the case for throwing Ayman Odeh "the terrorist" out of…
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'What if the situation had been reversed?'
That's the question every Israeli needs to ask themself when a Jew kills an Arab because he's in the wrong neighborhood, and the authorities dillydally…
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David B. Green
A blog about art, politics and shared society in Israel
A blog about art, politics and shared society in Israel
The musings and observations of a veteran journalist on Israeli culture and politics, with an emphasis on the contribution of Israel's Palestinian citizens to society
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