In 1729 the satirist Jonathan Swift presented his Modest Proposal for solving the problem of starvation in Ireland under British rule. In order to prevent the children of poor people from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public, he suggested selling them. What might a contemporary Israeli modest proposal look like, asks Amira Nowaira , in a tribute to Swift

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