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3PLACE: WRITING FROM OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

The Specters of a Borrowed Village 75

For Palestine Is Missing from Palestine 78
The Fish Who Became a Shahid 85
Jenin and Homeopathy 91
A Murder Is a Murder Is a Murder: Between Tel Aviv and Bilin 98
4POLITICS : P L E A TO J E W I S H A RT I S T S
Trust Your Dreams: To Dorit Rabinian 105
Thus Spoke the Left: An Attack on the Manifesto of the National
Left 109
The Betrayal of the Peace Camp: To Achinoam Nini 118
From Now On Say I Am a Palestinian Jew: To David Grossman 121
And Who Shall I Say Is Calling? A Plea to Leonard Cohen 125
Come Out of Your Political Closets: To Israeli Filmmakers 130
This Time Its Not Funny! 133
Elementary, My Dear Schnabel: Plea to Julian Schnabel 137
What Do You Mean When You Say Left? An Answer to Professor
Nissim Calderon 141
5ART: VISUAL MIDRASH

An Angel Under Siege: To Hassan Hourani 147

Local Angel: To Walter Benjamin 148
Holy Language, Holy Place: To Franz Rosenzweig 150
Forgiveness: To Jacques Derrida 152
An Angel I Borrowed: To Mahmoud Darwish 153
Stabat Mater: To My Father 154
6LANGUAG E : CO N V E R S AT I O N S A N D CO M M E N T S
The Jew Is Within You, But You, You Are in the Jew 159
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What Does a Jew Want? On the Film Local Angel 173
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I will tremble the underground: On the Film Forgiveness 179
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Angel for a New Place: On the Film Local Angel 184
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