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Hummus brings Israelis, Palestinians to the table By Joshua Mitnick
Wed Jul 25, 4:00 AM ET



Abu Gosh, Israel - Every weekend, this quiet Israeli- Arab village in the Jerusalem hills becomes snarled with the traffic of hungry Israeli day-trippers.

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They come here in search of hummus, and hustlers from rival restaurants ambush motorists with directions to famous eateries. Describing Abu Gosh as a "good hummus pit stop," Rami Dourant explains why he visits the village even though he can eat the chickpea dish in any Jewish city in Israel.

"We need to stick with the Arab tradition," says the Jewish organizational psychologist as he left Abu Gosh's Haji restaurant. "Jews sometimes come up with gimmicks for hummus that don't work."

"It forces the two nations to cross boundaries," he says. "Because in the hummus restaurants, there is little room and Jews and Arabs must sit at the same tables. It forces people to meet."

But Liora Gvion, an Israeli author of a socio-political study of Palestinian food is less sanguine about the prospects for reconciliation over hummus.

"It's chutzpah to think about it as a meeting place between the two. Because it was appropriated by the Israelis, so now after they appropriated it, they want to return it and say 'let's call it a meeting place?' No self-respecting Palestinian would buy it," she says.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070725/wl_csm/ohummus

[ddeubel]

Delightfully cerebral article.

I can't believe the author wasn't a "Frenchman", simply astounding.

I wonder if my own cravings for hummous these hot afternoons (and taboule), can be considered as subversive? Or maybe concilliatory?

DD

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[ddeubel]

I just thank god I know how to make the stuff and also have a few places to go to in Seoul, to get my fix. Heaven on earth and healthy as Hell.

DD

[twg]

But hummus is a secret food fifth column with the Sharia-inspired agenda to take away our god-given right to eat pizza!

I READ IT IN THE C.E. FORUM HERE!

[sundubuman]

I know this won't please either Israelis or Arabs, but imho, the best Hummus in the world is in the US.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070228/NEWS/702280308/1005/SPORTS0106

[Big_Bird]

I had dinner with an Arab friend in Thailand. We went to an Israeli restaurant, because the food was very close to what he was brought up on. But the Israeli owner eyed us with suspicion the whole time and we couldn't enjoy it properly. He also felt afraid she would poison his drink. Oh dear! Not very concilliatory!

Their reaction to each other left me a little sad.

[Vicissitude]

Interesting to read this article just as I am coincidently eating my Hommos Tahineh of the Al Rahih variety from Lebanon.

I've spent my entire life surrounded by Jews and Arabs in my community. Some of you obviously have no idea that the two communicate regularly (yes on a regular basis), not just in Israel/Palestine, but all over the world. The article is a spin. Some people are obviously very ignorant of this fact.

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[bucheon bum]

my turn to generalize:

I've found arabs to be some of the most hospitable and friendly people I've met in my travels. They just are too stuck up on crap from the past and too focused on- for a lack of a better word- honor related BS.

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