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Daniel Sokatch gets it. He heads the New Israel Fund, an organization dedicated to equality and democracy for all Israelis--Arab, Jewish, and otherwise. The question he gets asked, on an almost daily basis, is, \"Can't you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?\" This book is his timely and much-needed answer.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCan We Talk About Israel?\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of that country and explores why so many people feel so strongly about it without actually understanding it very well at all. Sokatch grapples with a century-long struggle between two peoples that both perceive themselves as (and indeed are) victims. And he explains why Israel (and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) inspires such extreme feelings--why it seems like Israel is the answer to \"what is wrong with the world\" for half the people in it, and \"what is right with the world\" for the other half. 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