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Issue 14 of Fathom out now! / 19 September / 2016

Symposium | Israel’s core security requirements in permanent-status negotiations

by Michael Herzog

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As an official involved in most of the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians over the last 23 years, Michael Herzog is an expert on Israeli security concerns and interests. In this article he gives his views on the Center for New American Security (CNAS) report and Israel’s security concerns in final status discussions. He argues that even though each of Israel’s security requests look solvable when taken in isolation, it is difficult to overcome their accumulating effect on limiting...
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Symposium | A security system for the two-state solution
by Kris Bauman & Ilan Goldenberg

Colonel Kris Bauman is Senior Military Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at the National Defence University and in 2013-2014, worked as...
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Symposium | ‘Separation is not the answer’: Gershon Hacohen on Israel’s security
by Gershon Hacohen

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen served in the IDF for 42 years, commanding troops in battle on the Egyptian and Syrian fronts, and filling positions...
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‘Each must see the Other’: Education and mutual recognition in Israel – an interview with Ayman Agbaria
by Ayman Agbaria

Professor Ayman Agbaria is a Palestinian poet, playwright, scholar and activist. He is a senior lecturer in education policy and politics at the University of...
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Fathom Forum with Dr. Dalia Fadila: 'Q Schools: Educating for equality in Israel’
by Dalia Fadila

This September Fathom hosted Dr. Dalia Fadila, faculty member of the International School for Leadership and Diplomacy at IDC-Inter Disciplinary Center in Herzliya. Dr. Fadila...
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How Obama Sold the Iran Delusion
by Ben Cohen

Ben Cohen explores the Obama administration’s masterful success in persuading so many American influencers to buy into a delusion about Iran – that it is...
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Shiraz Maher | Mapping contemporary Salafi-Jihadism
by Shiraz Maher

Shiraz Maher is the author of Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea (Hurst, 2016) and Deputy Director at the International Centre for the Study of...
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After Brexit (1): Jonathan Rynhold on Israel’s future relations with the UK and the EU
by Jonathan Rynhold

Fathom’s contributing editor Dr. Toby Greene sat down with Jonathan Rynhold, professor of Political Science at Bar Ilan University, and discussed the implications of Brexit...
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After Brexit (2): Azriel Bermant on Israel’s future relations with the UK and the EU
by Azriel Bermant

Azriel Bermant, a lecturer in International Relations at Tel Aviv University and a former research fellow at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS),...
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Communists Against Jews: the Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland in 1968
by Simon Gansinger

‘Everything started collapsing then’, wrote Halina Zawadzka, who survived the Shoah in Poland, about her experience of 1968 in Communist Poland when dozens of Jews...
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Like a Cloud Contains a Storm: Jean Améry’s Critique of Anti-Zionism
by Marlene Gallner

Jean Améry is best known in the anglophone world as a Holocaust survivor and author of At The Mind’s Limits, an Auschwitz memoir hailed by...
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Book Review | The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism
by Philip Spencer

To say this is a timely book is something of an understatement. Over the past few months, evidence has been systematically accumulating that the British...
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‘People didn’t dream there would be Haredim’: an interview with Rabbi Menahem Shemtov and Rebbetzin Shoshana Shemtov
by Rabbi Menahem Shemtov and Rebbetzin Shoshana Shemtov

Rabbi Menahem Shemtov is the chairman of the Rabbis Committee for Inter-Religious Dialogue formally on behalf of the United Nations, and is the coordinator of...
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‘The trends in high-tech are changing, but not at a pace Arab graduates need’: An interview with Reem Younis
by Reem Younis

Reem Younis is co-founder of Nazareth-based Alpha Omega, a global high-tech company that seeks to further high-tech skills, employment and entrepreneurship among Israel’s Arab citizens....
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Book Review │ Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War
by James Sorene

Israel’s military operations always have a name. As a mark of his achievement in June 1967, Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin was granted the honour...
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Book Review │ Judas
by Liam Hoare

Amos Oz was 14 when, two years after his mother took her own life, he left the city of his birth, Jerusalem, for Kibbutz Hulda....
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Lies, Damned Lies and the Academic Boycott of Israel
by Michael Yudkin

Oxford University academic Michael Yudkin critiques the ‘Academic boycott’ promoted by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and its...
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