Unthinkable today – but in 1988, Israel's biggest singers united against the occupation

Three months into the first intifada, dozens of Israeli artists gathered in Tel Aviv to try to 'awaken the human conscience,' as one rocker put it. Nearly four decades later, the arc of history hasn't bent toward peace

It was 37 years ago in March 1988, but today the Haaretz headline seems inconceivable: "Maybe something has finally started to move here."

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