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Articles
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The New Normal
Young Emiratis and Israelis chat online after UAE and Israel sign “Normalization” deal
By David E. Kaplan
A fresh ‘Winds of Change’ is blowing across the Middle East as we hear in conversation between young Israelis and Emiratis as they chat not about F35 fighters and Iran but about their lives and dreams for the future. Is it a change of season where the future can bury the past?
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An Arab-Israeli take on the Abraham Accords
“The Palestinians will get on the train … It will just not happen at the very first stop.”
By Ruth Wasserman Lande, a former advisor to President Shimon Peres
With insight of one who lived in Cairo, Egypt for several years, the writer opines on the transition from the “cold peace” that characterized earlier agreements, to Israel’s 2020 “normalization” agreements with Gulf states. Despite “a future not without complexity” is it a new dawn?
An Arab-Israeli take on the Abraham Accords
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Braving Bidud
My ‘bidud diary’ or exasperated rant!
By Martine Maron Alperstein
Day 11 of bidud (isolation due to exposure to covid-19) and this writer in central Israel is “irritated”, “impatient”, “angry” and “frustrated” as she tends to family, self and work. A personal insight in coping when your life is literally – on hold!
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