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Foreign Policy: Israeli Arabs, The One State and the Likud

(Cross-posted with +972 Magazine) I have a new piece in Foreign Policy, discussing the relations between Jewish and Arab MKs and their perspective on the one state solution. Interviewed are Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin (Likud), Deputy-Speaker Ahmed Tibi (Raam-Taal), and … Continue reading

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Blasphemy? | Haaretz

[Sorry folks - no English translation for this one at the moment. This Haaretz  feature deals with the UNHRC decision last month to proclaim "defamation of religion"  a violation of human rights, and the concerns it raises for freedom of … Continue reading

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Backing from the Precipice | Haaretz

[גרסא עברית ] There’s a lot of anger here,” says Jon McCourt, a former Irish Republican Army activist turned peace worker, speaking from Derry, Northern Ireland. “They’re saying they are killing for a cause, but they can’t seem to explain … Continue reading

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Interview: Johann Hari

With a biweekly column in a national newspaper, appearances in lucrative outlets abroad and an impressive list of prominent interviewees – Tony Blair, Hugo Chavez and the Dalai Lama, plus a handful of luxurious awards to his name – Johann Hari is hardly your typical, Bethnal Green, fortnightly -xeroxed-A5-rag kind of a radical. But not unlike George Orwell, Hari had maintained a political course of his own, challenging dogmas on left and right. Continue reading

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