Reporters’ Roundtable: How Israelis View Settlements; Life in New Square

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
In this week’s Forward Reporters’ Roundtable, Andrew Tobin, a Forward intern, joins host Josh Nathan-Kazis to discuss what’s behind the recent arson attack in the Hasidic community of New Square, N.Y. Josh also speaks with Joseph Dana, a Tel Aviv- and Ramallah-based journalist, about changing perceptions about the permanence of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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