My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

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Ari Shavit on the Charlie Rose Show (photo: YouTube screenshot)
Ari Shavit and the failure of the Kerry process
A public exchange has been taking place between Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken and the paper’s columnist Ari Shavit over Mahmoud Abbas’ refusal to recognize Israel as a “Jewish state.” According to Shavit’s latest piece, supporting peace means forcing the Palestinians to accept Israeli preconditions, otherwise there will be no agreement. This has always been the logic…
By Noam Sheizaf March 27, 2014
Ari Shavit on the Charlie Rose Show (photo: YouTube screenshot)
Book Review: On Ari Shavit’s ‘My Promised Land’
The Zionist story, re-told by the elite, for the elite. A new book by Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit won rare compliments in recent weeks from the liberal Jewish elite in the United States. A couple of prominent Jewish writers—Leon Wieseltier and Thomas Freidman—praised the book on the pages of the New York Times, the New…
By Noam Sheizaf December 19, 2013
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