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Articles of the author Michael Felsen
Can common humanity make it through a checkpoint?
Boston, Massachusetts – “Means of suppressing demonstrations", a short story by 25-year old Israeli author Shani Boianjiu that recently appeared in the fiction slot of the prestigious New Yorker magazine, has garnered plenty of attention in the few (...)

14 - 07 - 2012
Looking youthward for peace
BOSTON, Massachusetts: Can the youthful energy, passion and idealism that fuelled the Arab Spring and the Israeli social justice protests salvage the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians? Judging from the voices heard at a (...)

12 - 12 - 2011
Youthward for peace
BOSTON, Massachusetts: Can the youthful energy, passion and idealism that fuelled the Arab Spring and the Israeli social justice protests salvage the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians? Judging from the voices heard at a (...)

11 - 12 - 2011
Making Israel-Palestine a good place to live
BOSTON, Massachusetts: There's something very disconcerting about a recently conducted Israeli public opinion poll. The survey, undertaken for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth at the beginning of this month, revealed that 66 percent of Israeli (...)

24 - 10 - 2011
American Jews, it's time to make a difference
BOSTON: It doesn't take a rocket scientist to recognize that these are especially turbulent times in Israel. In the past few days, deadly terror attacks in Israel's south have prompted retaliatory strikes into Gaza, a regrettable resurgence of (...)

25 - 08 - 2011
A new vision for ending the Arab-Israeli conflict now
BOSTON, Massachusetts; As the turbulent winds of the Arab Spring continue to blow, and efforts to bring a September vote in the UN General Assembly to recognize the Palestinian state pick up steam, the urgency of a final status Arab-Israeli peace (...)

05 - 05 - 2011
Israel and Egypt's warm peace ahead
BOSTON: As echoes of the ouster of Israel's “cold peace” partner, Hosni Mubarak, reverberate throughout the Middle East and beyond, the people of Israel are now faced with various permutations of what are effectively two choices: they can hunker (...)

25 - 02 - 2011
Israe's road to a warm peace with Egypt
BOSTON, Massachusetts: As echoes of the ouster of Israel's “cold peace” partner, Hosni Mubarak, reverberate throughout the Middle East and beyond, the people of Israel are now faced with various permutations of what are effectively two choices: they (...)

24 - 02 - 2011
Seizing a new year's opportunity for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts: As we enter 2011, there seems to be little cause for celebration about prospects for peace in the Middle East, especially following the breakdown of US-brokered negotiations upon Israel's resumption of West Bank (...)

14 - 01 - 2011
Obama's faith in the Golden Rule
BOSTON, Massachusetts: Last spring, dogged by looping video of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright howling "Not 'God bless America', 'God damn America', presidential hopeful Barack Obama cracked open the tense discussion of race in this country with his (...)

05 - 03 - 2009
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