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“You are committing a putsch!”
That was Hillel Kook's accusation when Ben-Gurion unilaterally decided Israel could forgo a constitution. Is that why this giant of Zionist activism…
 • David B. Green
A state of eternal probation
Benjamin Netanyahu's hint that he will outlaw Israel's Islamic Movement threatens the party of MK Mansour Abbas. Yet a few years ago, Netanyahu was…
 • David B. Green
'There is no replacement for the truth'
I try not to think about Yitzhak Rabin -- too painful. But the 30th anniversary of his killing was an opportunity to recall certain key aspects of his…
 • David B. Green
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…
 • 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…
 • David B. Green
‘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…
 • David B. Green
'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
 • 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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