From Conversations with History, an interview with Avner Cohen, author of The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb. Louis Theroux spends time with ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers and discovers a small, but very committed subculture. Israel and Jordan once worked together for peace — now their alliance is collapsing, driven apart by the issue of refugee resettlement, and Jordan may be turning to Iran. Meir Dagan, recently retired as chief of the Mossad, wanted to reestablish the agency as a powerful deterrent to Israel’s enemies; with a string of daring operations, he succeeded. The Dubai Job: Last year, an elite squad of Mossad hit men finally got their target — they never thought the whole world would be watching. Yigal Amir assassinated Yitzhak Rabin 15 years ago in an effort to derail the Oslo peace accords; now his wife, a Russian emigre, is trying to turn him into a heroic Soviet-style political prisoner. Proposals that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Mahmoud Abbas made in 2008 offer a path to a deal amid the region’s turmoil. The Mideast Maverick: Sari Nusseibeh, the president of Al-Quds University, has long defied conventional wisdom — now he's proposing a new route to peace in the Middle East (and more and more and more). Palestinian rappers are returning to hip hop’s political roots — just don’t ask them to fix the Arab-Israeli conflict. The sleep of reason: In Ariel Sharon’s six-year coma, an Israeli finds artistic inspiration.
