Read Our Palestinian Statehood Q&A

Gal Beckerman September 15, 2011

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This morning Yossi Klein Halevi and Hussein Ibish answered questions from Forward and Guardian readers about the Palestinians’ pursuit of UN recognition of statehood.

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Gal Beckerman was a staff writer and then the Forward’s opinion editor until 2014. He was previously an assistant editor at the Columbia Journalism Review where he wrote essays and media criticism. His book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review and Bookforum. His first book, “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry,” won the 2010 National Jewish Book Award and the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, as well as being named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The Washington Post. Follow Gal on Twitter at @galbeckerman

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