Bernard Avishai

visiting professor of government at Dartmouth College

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Author of The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last and blogger at BernardAvishai.com; Contributing Editor of the Harvard Business Review; journalist who formerly covered the Middle East for Harpers and the New York Review of Books

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After violence between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian sides broke out at UCLA overnight, two Dartmouth lecturers with differing views on the war offer a model for cooperation.

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