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Who would have imagined that secular Palestinian nationalism would degenerate into this: Abbas vehemently refusing to meet with democratically-elected Hamas as he…
Any reader of Israel Studies‘s recent issue on the “Americanization of Israel” would be likely to conclude that the most important…
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Being in Israel these days is as strange as ever: an Israeli military machine that kills Palestinians daily is wedded to a…
In recent weeks in Palestinian politics, one thing is certain: Mahmoud Abbas’s group has decided to either rule or ruin Hamas’s victory.…
Israel has created a media spectacle out of a tactical maneuver. This simple fact can be easily forgotten when one is daily…
One of the features of living in our contemporary societies is the prevalence of a certain kind of understanding of history. History…
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