Israel/Palestine and the Pottery Barn rule of toponymy

Since Benjamin Netanyahu is extremely busy staying out of jail, here’s a quick solution to the problem he thinks has been solved but hasn’t.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured in Ottawa in 2012, is likely one of many who would balk, but the binomial nomenclature of ‘Israel/Palestine’ is the only truly accurate and appropriate name for the conjoined entity that he now presides over, writes Lisa Van Dusen. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

April 29, 2020

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