Gershom Gorenberg
By Gershom Gorenberg
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News Religious Zionists Feel Anger, Alienation As Israel’s Political Map Shifts Leftward
In a historic photo that serves as an icon of Orthodox settlers’ political clout, Menachem Felix is held aloft by supporters, his face staring at the camera in amazed joy next to an oversized Israeli flag. Thirty years after that picture was taken, Felix decided not to put a flag on his house in the…
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News Olmert Pushes for Quick Pullout From Large Part of West Bank
Ehud Olmert is in a hurry. Call it bicycle politics: If he goes too slow, he’s likely to fall. Even as he tries to patch together a ruling coalition, Israel’s prime minister-designate has said that he plans to carry out a second disengagement — this time from a large swath of the West Bank —…
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News Israeli Arabs Voicing Anger After Incident at Nazareth Church
A handful of firecrackers set off by an emotionally unstable family during Mass in Nazareth’s Basilica of the Annunciation brought thousands of angry people to the city’s streets, in an hours-long melee that left more than a score of protesters and police injured. That was evidence, as if more were needed, of the resentments of…
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News Minor Change Marks Major Shift in Vote
JERUSALEM — The change in the election law looked minor, barely more significant than the flapping of a butterfly’s wings. Yet the decision to raise the percentage of the national vote that a party needs to enter the Knesset is already reshaping Israel’s political map. It could eliminate parties, cut the number of Arab Knesset…
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Culture ‘The Accidental Empire’
‘We are divided,” Haim Gouri’s mother had taught him, “between those with meager spirits and those with torn souls.” That night, more than ever, Gouri counted himself as one of the raggedly ripped souls, and he envied the other sort. A solitary Israeli army jeep growled north from Jerusalem on the road winding through the…
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News Religious Zionists Facing Deep Rifts After Evacuation of Amona Outpost
JERUSALEM — The crowd at Zion Square was young, extremely young, and surprisingly sparse. A half-hour after the planned start of the demonstration, just a block from the temporary stage with its huge sign reading “Olmert Is Bad for the Jews,” there was still plenty of open pavement separating the big knots of girls in…
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News At Israeli Outpost, Showdown Looms for Settlers, Government
AMONA — In the dark, the houses look like nine small, identical boxes — flat topped, faced in stone, windows shuttered — that have been dropped on the rocky, unpaved lots cut at the end of the ridge. Jerusalem, to the south, is a carpet of lights spread along the horizon. Behind the houses, the…
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News Sharon’s Legacy: Israel, Party Surviving Well Without Him
JERUSALEM — For a moment last week, Ehud Olmert seemed like a guy who’d agreed to take a small-plane trip of uncertain destination with his friend, the pilot — and then watched the pilot collapse over the controls. In the hours after Prime Minister Sharon’s January 4 stroke, Israeli commentators stressed that Sharon’s new Kadima…
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