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The Nakba and the ghost of Yitzhak Rabin

Opinion by Greg Ray. October 11, 2023 About the middle of last week, before the Hamas attack on Israel, I had a dream about Palestinians. This is unusual since I am by no means deeply invested in the Israel/Palestine issue, though I have often thought about it. In the dream I was in a park and a group of people I somehow knew were Palestinians (dreams are like that) were sitting at a picnic table and having a conversation. The people looked suspicious and unhappy. I thought I should go and talk to them because I…

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A bed-time story for children about to die

Once upon a time there was a civilised country. Its people were intelligent and reasonable, by human standards, but it suffered the misfortune of acquiring some leaders who saw some advantage in leading them astray. These leaders used an age-old method of getting, increasing and keeping power: the old trick of persuading most of the population that a minority of “different” people in the country were bad and dangerous.  This trick almost always works for any population of humans. The trick works best of all when the “bad and dangerous” people own something valuable that can…

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