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Silence? What Silence?

Michael Walzer, co-editor of Dissent magazine, has just written about a trip to the West Bank town of Hebron. He went with a group that calls itself "Breaking the Silence." Breaking the silence? Really? As if the West Bank is not the world's least silent issue? Walzer's article is …

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Written by Martin Krossel on Sunday July 31, 2011

Memory Fails

My piece in the Telegraph cited an "anonymous wit" who compared the Arab uprisings to those of 1848. The author is my own friend Anne Applebaum. My piece in Thursday's Telegraph cited the "anonymous wit" who compared the Arab insurrections to the doomed uprisings of 1848. I should have either …

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Written by David Frum on Wednesday March 16, 2011