Tag Archives: Avi Farchan

concessions: the concession stand is always open

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Dave

Eyes on Zion. Peace can never be achieved when only one side gives and the other merely receives. This does not nurture an attitude of respect for an adversary. On the contrary, weakness encourages an adversary to try to take … Continue reading →

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souvenirs: glory days?

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Dave

remember when….Is reality that the peace agreement with Egypt is an on-going fraud, “cold” peace or not. Some in Israel claim that it died before it was born and the semblance of peace is an illusion foisted on the Israeli … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anwar Sadat, Avi Farchan, Camp David, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Menachen Begin, Moshe Sasson Israel ambassador, Neville Chamberlain, Oslo accords, Yamit settlement Sinai | Leave a comment

muslim brotherhood of aten: looking for “the hidden one”

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Dave

Akhenaten created a religious revolution in his time as pharaoh of Egypt from 1378 to 1362 B.C. He was a monotheist and worshiper of the sun god Aten. Ultimately, the question to be asked was whether he was an idealist, … Continue reading →

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Visionary or megalomaniac?

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Dave

No, not Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Fred Flinstones Order of the Buffalo or the Karnak Temple whirling dervish go-cart 500. Akhenaten and another sort of religious revolution based on monotheism and worship of the sun god Aten. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ariel Sharon, Auguste Mariette, Auguste Mariette Egyptologist, Avi Farchan, Barak Obama 2012, Benny Katzover, frederick goodall, Gen. Chaim Erez, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Francois Champollion, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Michael Ben Ari, Mohammed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, Neferetti, pharaoh akhenaten, Rabbi israel Ariel | Leave a comment

talking your son off the roof

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Dave

Israel Independence Day. A mixed blessing to be sure. “Never Again!” is what you hear. But does that also mean never again to get screwed by your own elected officials? Zionism has proven itself to be perfectly adept at bald … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amona expulsion, Ariel Sharon, Aril Sharon coma, Avi Farchan, David Ben Gurion, ehud barak, gush katif, Gush Katif museum, Israel Independence Day, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Migron expulsion, Moshe Datan 1973 war, noam braslavsky, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Theodore Herzl, Yom Kippur War Moshe Dayan | Leave a comment

every grain of sand

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Dave

Picasso called his painting, “the sum of destructions”, Marcel Duchamp went further into conceptual form with the ready-made, banal objects such as urinals converted into works of art. This was the so called “shock of the new” the beginning of … Continue reading →

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walking on old stones: no stone unturned

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dave

Ziononism is racism. Not really. If anything its a form of self-hatred that denies any element of the spiritual within the individual. Like the art critic Clement Greenberg, who acknowledged his own Jewish self hatred and said the spiritual in … Continue reading →