From Forward, a review of Israel vs. Utopia by Joel Schalit, The Myths of Liberal Zionism by Yitzhak Laor, and A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement by James Horrox. From NYRB, an article on Israel and Palestine: Can they start over? Whether the new-found interest in governing will transform and even tame Hamas has not yet been decided. Is Israel a democracy? Gershom Gorenberg wonders. More and more and more and more on Shlomo Sand's The Invention of the Jewish People. From TNR, Moshe Halbertal on The Goldstone Illusion: What the U.N. report gets wrong about Gaza — and war (and Israel without illusions: David Shulman on what Goldstone got right). An interview with Richard Goldstone: “I’m certainly a friend of Israel — I don’t mind being called a Zionist”. A review of Allis and Ronald Radosh's A

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