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You were so proud that “You got his back”, but in fact you left him dangling and now he seems weak”.

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When the part played by the Irish government in the peaceful resolution to the latest attempted blockade run becomes clear, perhaps it may be appropriate in co-opt them to the process of easing and changing the terms of the Gaza blockade.

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By Yoram Getzler An article in the June 2010 issue of The New York Review of Books has ignited a full scale debate in the Jewish Zionist world. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/failure-american-jewish-establishment/ WHAT DO YOU THINK ?

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Over the years of the states existence and even before that the general wisdom exemplified by the phrase, “everybody knows” is that the Palestinians all are against us. Recently an op-ed by Max Singer in the Jerusalem Post challenges this assumption.
In my response to Mr. Singer I also include several other expressions that challenge this assumption.

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By Yoram Getzler With the intense focus on a nuclearized Middle-East propelled by developments and threats by Iran aimed at Israel, it seems to me that at this point it would be in Israel’s interest to consider foregoing its development, possession and the accompanying defense of nuclear weapons, and close its nuclear weapon facilities. To add too the timing is the recently publicized revelation that our Dimona nuclear facility is, at age forty, in desperate need of an expensive rebuilding project to insure its safety….

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By Yoram Getzler

The following is written in a response to an acquaintance who writes on the need for America/Obama to pressure Israel in the pursuit of a Middle-East peace.

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