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The “Pipe Dreams?” Edition

JL;DR SUMMARY In "The Pipe Dreams? Edition," Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and critic Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida discuss the need for Israel's left-wing parties to unite before the next election, the potential for a different type of solidarity and politics for peace highlighted by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas republishing a memoir by an Iraqi-Israeli author, the accusations of environmental activists against the government for serving corporate interests akin to Trumpism, and the lack of discussion by Israeli leaders on America's anti-Semitism crisis. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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