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Left to right: My grandmother, Becky Mamron (who was called Rubio at the time), with Farid al Atrash and her sister, Leoni. Alexandria, sometime in the mid-late 1930s.

I Don’t Know Arabic, but I do. And yet don’t

Watching an Arabic movie every Friday throughout my childhood. Nearly 30 years would pass before I discover that my grandmother and Farid al-Atrash were friends. I have no idea, it goes under my radar. And yet they are there, the words. By Tamar Kaplansky (Translated from Hebrew by Orna Meir-Stacey) I don’t know Arabic. My…

By Haokets April 7, 2013

Two pseudo-states is not a solution for flailing Israeli democracy

By Hagai El-Ad The two-state solution? Instead of an end to the occupation, September might bring us not just more of the same, but worse: an occupied pseudo-State of Palestine, alongside a deteriorating pseudo-democracy in Israel The expected UN General Assembly decision on the establishment of an independent Palestinian state was perhaps supposed to usher…

By +972 Magazine June 6, 2011