Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Thanks to Diane Mason for translating this opinion column (in Italian) by Israeli novelist, A.B. Yehoshua published a few days ago in the Italian daily, La Stampa. Aside from the opening story about David Ben Gurion’s first meeting with John F. Kennedy and the attendant criticism of the Israel lobby and Bush policy, there [...]

A.B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s leading novelists and a confirmed Zionist. The Israeli right will point out that he is a confirmed dove whose views are therefore, in their eyes, suspect and marginal. However, what is important to me is that Yehoshua is NOT Ilan Pappe. He’s even more centrist than [...]