Nathan Thrall, at the Jerusalem Hotel, May 24, 2017. Photo by Phil Weiss
Liberal Zionists wince when they see Nathan Thrall’s byline. So do the professional Peace Processors, those U.S. diplomats who have made long careers by predicting that coddling Israel’s government could produce a comprehensive peace agreement.
What must especially alarm both liberal Zionists and Peace Processors is that Thrall is not safely quarantined in the alternative media world, but he breaks into more mainstream outlets from time to time, even including the
New York Times. Just last month, he appeared in the
London Review of Books, characterizing Israel as an “apartheid state” just before the B’Tselem report came out with the same conclusion. That piece made liberal Zionists squirm by attacking their claim that Israel and the West Bank are “separate regimes,” and “Israel” is still a democracy.
A New Vintage for Public Domain Classics By Karintha Parker | Feb 12, 2021
It’s the Roaring ’20s all over again. On January 1, thousands of novels originally published in 1925 lost their copyright status and hit the public domain, and this class included several that publishers had long been anticipating. Vintage Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, is one of many publishers to jump at the opportunity, releasing four new, but old, titles in paperback as part of its Vintage Classics line on January 5: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway’s
In Our Time, John Dos Passos’s
Manhattan Transfer, and Virginia Woolf’s
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