Why do I do this? Why do I do this to myself? As if I don't have enough aggravations in the US media. So why did I decide to open the Dining section of the New York Times? Why? "and now a half-dozen spots in Manhattan serve proper Israeli hummus." So my parents and my grandparents have been eating Israeli food--long before the state of Israel was established--and they never knew it. Well, now I have to go. I need to make Israeli tabbulah, and eat some Israeli Baba Ghannuj. And I really really like Israeli Knafah, especially the Israeli Knafa Nabulsiyyah.