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Azure no. 38
Autumn 5770 / 2009

Assaf Sagiv
Switzerland’s Choice of Friends

Assaf Sagiv
Coming to Terms with Christianity

Robert Enright
The Radical Meaning of Forgiveness

Martin Gilbert
Lawrence of Judea

Gershon Shaked
Perhaps by the Power of Memory

Tomer Persico
Chabad’s Lost Messiah

Michael J. Totten
Terrorism’s Mask of Sanity

Marshall Poe
The Inconvenient Truth About Race

Yagil Henkin
A Conflict in Space

Uri Avnery and Asa Kasher on Operation Cast Lead, and others.

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The Radical Meaning of Forgiveness

Robert Enright | Anyone may forgive, and anyone may be forgiven—even the worst among us.

Lawrence of Judea

Martin Gilbert | The champion of the Arab cause and his little-known romance with Zionism.

Perhaps by the Power of Memory

Gershon Shaked | What will keep the Jews in Israel, despite all the reasons to leave?

Chabad’s Lost Messiah

Tomer Persico | Why the Lubavitcher Rebbe believed he was the Chosen One.

Terrorism’s Mask of Sanity

Michael J. Totten | Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton

The Inconvenient Truth About Race

Marshall Poe | The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending

A Conflict in Space

Yagil Henkin | Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman

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	Jews and the Challenge of Sovereignty Michael B. Oren \| Is "Jewish state" a contradiction in terms?
	Operation Cast Lead and the Ethics of Just War Asa Kasher \| Was Israel's conduct in its campaign against Hamas morally justified?
	Secret of the Sabbath Yosef Yitzhak Lifshitz \| It isn’t about R&R. It’s about how to be a creative human being.
	The Jews’ Right To Statehood: A Defense Ruth Gavison \| A new look at Zionism from the perspective of universal rights.
	How Great Nations Can Win Small Wars Yagil Henkin \| Iraq, Northern Ireland, and the secret strength of democratic peoples.
	Locusts, Giraffes, and the Meaning of Kashrut Meir Soloveichik \| The most famous Jewish practice is really about love and national loyalty.
	Civilians First Assaf Sagiv \| Only in Israel does concern for the safety of soldiers override the state’s obligation to defend its civilians.
	Israel's Electoral Complex Amotz Asa-El \| Israeli politics needs a system overhaul.