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By Uriel Heilman · July 7, 2010 NEW YORK (JTA) — It was an otherwise wholly unremarkable stump speech before a friendly audience in New York.

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This just came to my email and I wanted to post it ASAP. My name is Lior Zagury and I’m a very proud Israeli Jew. Yes, it is important for me to present myself in this way, especially today when there is a feeling that there is a festival for anti-Semites.

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By Yoram Getzler

Let us assume that we are truly trying to understand the foundations of this conflict between the Jewish people and the Palestinian/Arab/Muslim world which Prof. Shenhav challenges us to do, (One space for two people, Haaretz, Magazine, Feb 19 ’10 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150822.html ). The professor calls for a re-imagining of the past in order to understand when and at which moment in history we, the Jewish people, could have acted differently, made decisions unlike the ones we made, which, according to him, would have been more just, and have led to less suffering for the Palestinian people. OK, I accept the challenge. I suggest we expand the possibilities beyond the usual, which is to place the blame on the Jewish people in general and the Zionist enterprise in particular. Continue Reading »

By Yoram Getzler

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MK Benny Begin; my response to Haaretz article “What else can we concede?” Dec 4 ’09    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1132546.html

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by Yoram Getzler

Based on the Bedein Kushner formula from the Jerusalem Post

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This is Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren giving his speech to the General Assembly of Jewish Organizations on Nov. 9th, 2009

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