One observer,Akiva Eldar, a senior columnist at the Haaretz newspaper in Tel Aviv, sees no movement unless one of the sides takes the first step.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

There's something else called quasi-magical thinking, which was a term coined many years later by Eldar Shafir and Amos Tversky.

第七,准神奇式思考,这个术语是多年后,由埃尔德·沙菲尔和阿莫斯·特沃斯基提出的

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Eldar says Mitchell's job is to make sure Israeli officials understand that message.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Akiva Eldar is a senior political columnist at Tel Aviv's Haaretz newspaper.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07