Michelle Sieff
By Michelle Sieff
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Culture Arendt on Trial
The Eichmann Trial By Deborah Lipstadt Nextbook/Schocken, 272 pages, $24.95 In 1961, the young state of Israel tried and executed the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker, an account that was published in 1963 as “Eichmann in Jerusalem.” Arendt did not set out to write a journalistic…
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Opinion Don’t Take Hamas’s Goals Out of the Equation
Why do the debates over the morality of Israel’s responses to Hamas never seem to produce a consensus? A debate broke out last year after Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, and another after the publication of the Goldstone Report. Recently we have found ourselves in the midst of yet another debate in the wake of…
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