Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Rama Musa http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 18 May 2013 22:47:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 A panel on Palestinian statehood at the Perugia Festival http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/unraveling-palestinian-statehood-in-perugia/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/unraveling-palestinian-statehood-in-perugia/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:13:26 +0000 Rama Musa http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=121798 This April, at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, I attended “The Israel-Palestine issue,” a panel discussion about the UN vote that granted Palestine non-member observer state status. An event about the Israel-Palestine conflict often attracts a crowd of supporters of both sides, as well as voyeurs with an opinion. The panel in Perugia was [...]

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