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"Back from the West Bank."

“Back from the West Bank.”

Chas Freeman’s question has haunted me since he first articulated it three months ago in a conversation with Aaron Maté and Katie Halper on Useful Idiots podcast:  Does Israel have a right to exist [is] a rather strange question because it does…

"In Ukraine, a war for memory."

“In Ukraine, a war for memory.”

To destroy the shared past of a people is to go some way toward destroying a people—the coherence and solidity of their identity, their ability to think and act collectively, their collective confidence in themselves, altogether their place in the…