[Peace-discuss] Israel Studies Project Panel Discussion (sic)

[David Green]

Business as usual??

Wednesday, August 25: Panel Discussion - "Debating the Country, Surprising the 
People: The Israeli Public Sphere." 4pm, Music Room, Levis Faculty Center.

http://www.jewishculture.illinois.edu/programs/israel/
http://www.jewishculture.illinois.edu/events/lectures/

Aug. 25
• 4 p.m., Music Room, Levis Faculty Center. Panel discussion: “Debating the 
Country, Surprising the People: The Public Sphere in Israel.” Harris; Todd 
Hasak-Lowy, professor of Hebrew at the University of Florida and author of 
“Captives” (Spiegel and Grau, 2008) and “The Task of this Translator” (Harcourt, 
2005); and Keret. Moderated by Matti Bunzl, the director of the Program in 
Jewish Culture and Society. 


http://www.news.illinois.edu/news/10/0809israeli_artists.html


Etgar Keret 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etgar_Keret
http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/629/prmID/1120
http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-310/_nr-320/i.html

"On the way home from my parents' house, I began to think that maybe my father 
was right. And that it wasn't exactly good news. If, after all the hopes and 
disappointments, all the accords and intifadas, the best a whole country can 
wish for is a politician so nondescript that the pundits are still arguing over 
whether he's on the left or the right — if we want a non-event on Election Day — 
then we really must be exhausted."
 

Todd Hasak-Lowy
 
Why Obama?

http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/09/why_obama_by_to.html

September, 2008

"The moment Barack Obama places his hand on that Bible (if only it were a Quran) 
next January, trust me, the notion of starting your own garden or tearing up 
your credit cards or biking to work or attending a protest once a month won’t 
seem so far-fetched anymore. The Wicked Witch will finally be dead, and Dorothy 
(Cecily Tyson, not Judy Garland) will rule the day. At that moment, America, 
anything and everything will be open to change."