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Israelis marching at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem in May to mark the occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967. Credit Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images

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We were driving our rental car out of Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. “Dad,” my oldest daughter said as we listened to the radio, “what’s the Nationality Law?”

“It’s a law that says Israel is a Jewish state,” I replied.

“But wasn’t it always that way?” she wondered, and rightly so.

“Yes. Bottom line, it’s always been that way.”

“I don’t get it,” my middle son said. “I thought you said we were citizens.”

“We are,” I answered.

“But we’re not Jewish, right?”

“No, we’re not.”

“Then I don’t get it,” my youngest son complained.

“It’s a little complicated,” I tried to explain.…  Seguir leyendo »

Near Ben Gardane, Tunisia, March 2011.

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Last week, The New York Times Magazine devoted a special issue to a report on the historic tumult and turmoil in the Middle East. Here, three Arab writers respond, and reflect on the legacy of the Arab Spring revolutions.

VOICES FOR FREEDOM.

It isn’t very smart to be smart after the fact, and perhaps it isn’t very smart to judge the course of the Arab world’s revolutions when I’m sitting in an air-conditioned room not in the Middle East but in the American Midwest. The last boat I sailed in with my family was a pirate ship in an amusement park, not a dinghy full of refugees endangering their lives and those of their families in the hope that their children will one day savor the taste of freedom.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Au petit matin, je sors fumer une cigarette et je me souviens de mon père. Mon père fumait, il fumait beaucoup. Et quand j’ai entendu un de mes professeurs parler des dangers de la cigarette pour la santé, je me suis mis à flipper pour lui et je l’ai supplié d’arrêter. Ce à quoi il a répondu : «Je suis un Arabe palestinien, j’habite ici depuis toujours et je vois ce qui se passe. Tu penses vraiment que ce sont les cigarettes qui vont me tuer ?»

Enfant, il m’arrivait parfois de rejoindre mon père aux manifestations, dans mon village de Tira ou même à Tel Aviv.…  Seguir leyendo »