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             |  |  | Why we are closing |  |  |  | Yossi Alpher |  | The explanation is not disconnected from what is transpiring around us in the Middle East and globally. |  |  |              
             |  |  | The arc of the pendulum |  |  |  | Ghassan Khatib |  | My hope was that bitterlemons would provide a venue for the Palestinian voice to be heard. |  |  |