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Yasser and Ariel's Recipe for Peace 1 Suicide Bomber 1 Retaliation Combine ingredients Stir up fanatics Repeat endlessly
"More suicide bombs and more retaliation will solve everything"
Author Sayed Kashua talks about life as an Israeli-Palestinian
Eleanor speaks with Arab-Israeli novelist and essayist Sayed Kashua about his new book, Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life. It's a humorous, and at times painful collection of anecdotes about life as an Israeli-Palestinian.
A.B. Yehoshua on The Liberated Bride
A.B. Yehoshua's roots go back five generations in Jerusalem. He is one of Israel's foremost novelists and an astute observer of Israeli life. In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, he discusses his provocative new novel, The Liberated Bride - begun in the optimism of the Oslo Accord and finished during the second Intifada.
Writing a Nation: Israel at 50, pt. 2: with Amos Elon and Sami Michael
WRITING A NATION - ISRAEL AT 50 - Episode 2 of a 5-part series on the Authors of Israel, as that country celebrates its 50th anniversary. Part I: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Israeli author Amos Elon, who discusses the messianic and idealistic motives of the Zionist settlers who came to Israel in 1948, the ideas of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, the defining characteristics of Israeli society, a hybrid culture made up of Jews from over 100 countries, and how Israel has two capitals…