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Why we are closing 
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             |              Yossi Alpher              |  
             
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			 The explanation is not disconnected from what is transpiring around us in the Middle East and globally.               |  
            
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The arc of the pendulum
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             |              Ghassan Khatib              |  
             
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			 My hope was that bitterlemons would provide a venue for the Palestinian voice to be heard.              |  
            
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