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πŸ“° Another verbose attempt at capturing the Middle Eastern conflict with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. #Shulman flexes his thesaurus muscles, hoping dense prose will solve centuries-old tensions. Meanwhile, readers are left wondering if they signed up for a history lesson or an endurance test. πŸ“šπŸ’€
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Evil in the West Bank

As long as the daily horrors in the occupied territories continue and the extreme right remains in power, democracy in Israel will be sick at the core.

The New York Review of Books