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The purpose of this article is to warn of the danger of war between Jews and Arabs, and to offer an alternative based upon a reasonable compromise. The uncompromising who believe that this collision…
Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1943
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In ascetic silence, in stony skirts,God’s handmaid falls on her face—Flash of an empty night, a forlorn desert waste,Shards of sunset upon the rocks.This land. Trodden, just like this, by a wandering…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1936
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Beyond the cloud upon the ocean
There’s a white and lonely sail
Let us pray and hope
lu yehi
I light a candle at my window
And its flame is shy and frail
Let us pray and hope
lu yehi
Let us…
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Naomi Shemer
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973
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This fictional exploration of interethnic relationships is set in 1980s Israel, a time of significant political and social turmoil owing to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
Contributor:
Shmuel Hasfari
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1988
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For two hundred years, Jews have obsessively sought to achieve two goals—the collective normality of the Jewish people, and the ability to control their own destiny. Since 1782, these goals have been…
Contributor:
Gerson D. Cohen
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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In the course of 1948 and the first half of 1949, a number of processes definitively changed the physical and demographic face of Palestine. Taken collectively, they steadily rendered…
Contributor:
Benny Morris
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
Date:
1987
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[…] The question is merely theoretical today. There is, at present, no negotiating partner, as the Arabs are demanding the return of the entire Land of Israel, including Jerusalem, to which all the…
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Ovadia Yosef
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1989
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A young man graduates and heads off to get damaged
He’s got nothing urgent for now and though they push him around he manages
He has no water in his knees
He has no plaster in his joints
He’ll be…
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David Avidan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
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The tale of the Generation of the Land is a sad tale. Reflecting about the source of the depression that the situation in Israel instills in me, I can only ascribe it to expressions of ethnocentric…
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Dan Horowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1993
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Now we resemble a city under siege, one whose enemies swarm toward it from all directions.
And if, in the meantime, we are forced to confront the tanks armed only with Molotov bottles, then we must…
Contributor:
Esther Streit-Wurzel
Places:
Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1976