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Galia Golan, Darwin Professor (Emerita) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. She is a leading activist of Peace Now, Bat Shalom, and the International Women´s Commission for Palestinian-Israeli Peace.
Within a mere few years after World War II the Middle East was remade. The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and its consequences helped propel that part of the world to what seems to be a permanent and unenviable spot on any list of world crises.