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Herbert Marcuse visited Israel in late December 1971 (from December 21, 1971, to January 3, 1972). Summing up his political conclusions at the end of his visit, he published an article in the English-language Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post under the title “Israel is Strong Enough to Concede.”¹ A Hebrew translation of that article appeared concurrently in the Israeli daily Haaretz under the title “My Opinions on the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Israel Must Accept the Existence of a Palestinian State.”² A few days prior to the publication of his article in the Israeli press, Marcuse met with journalists and other guests…