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...life were uneventful: he grew up on his father's olive farm in the village of Beit Ijza near Ramallah. Then, as he tells it in the book, everything changed. In 1981, he says, the Israelis drove his family out and bulldozed their house to make room for a Jewish settlement. "For the first time in my life I felt an undreamed-of anger," Said says. "Hatred rose in me, an extreme hatred for everything Israeli." Said goes on to recount two decades filled with ever-more-violent incidents of humiliation and brutality. The military police, he says, arrested...
...added that while some have expressed concerns that people without an interest in the Jewish community at Harvard could ascend to elected positions in Hillel because the group’s constitution has no religious faith requirements for its leaders, “I don’t think that’s a real concern. It doesn’t seem necessary to write that [religious faith requirement] into the constitution...
...jeep and leads the whole club in a chorus of another old Israeli favorite that goes: "I'm a soldier. Don't cry for me, Baby." For the past decade, Israelis felt they were leaving behind the pioneering days of Zionism, the movement that campaigned to found the Jewish state and create a strong character in its young people, all of whom had to serve in the army. The phrase post-Zionism came to describe the country's effort to build an individualistic, high-tech economy. Most Israelis hoped their country would become like anyplace else: ordinary, boring and safe...
...called "Palestinians inside Israel," almost as much of a throwback as Lahav's songs. Even before the crackdown, life was tough for Israel's Arabs. The 10 Israeli communities with the highest unemployment rates are all Arab. They're dilapidated assortments of cinderblock homes, often standing near neat, clean Jewish towns. Over 50 Arab hamlets aren't even recognized as villages by the Israeli government and, therefore, don't get municipal funding. Israeli Arabs are much less likely to go to college and, in a security-conscious country, they're constantly questioned by police on the streets. Others complain that...
...Adrien Brody’s magnetic, largely silent performance in Roman Polanski’s Holocaust drama almost compensates for The Pianist’s inconsistent tone and distasteful political sensibilities. Brody’s Wladek Szpilman, who could hardly have picked a worse time and place to be Jewish, transforms from cocky concert pianist to starving phantom hunted by Nazis after escaping death in the bombed-out ghetto. The film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction of universally...