Tag Archives: Daniella Weiss

holy land tour: shatterproof windshield required

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Dave

The president’s visit to the holy land. Even a vague and ambiguous agenda is news in itself. Anything with Israel,  in and of itself, is news. Two meteors colliding, one representing religious absolutism the other being the equally destructive path … Continue reading →

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twist and shout

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Dave

At its core is a concern for life and security. After the Oslo and Hebron agreements, people eulogized the old dream of a greater Israel, mythical as that was. They have heralded these treaties as tangible signs of Israel’s willingness … Continue reading →

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settlements: obstacle or necessary to peace

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Dave

It seems like an inverted sense of logic, but to a not insignificant number, the most immediate step to solving the problem is to settle the entire land. That is, wherever there is an open space in Judea, Samaria, Gaza, … Continue reading →

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steam rises : divide and conquer the elements

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Dave

Human rights and human fights. There are such chasms of difference between the secular, humanistic, far left and the religious, Biblical based interpretation that mixes prophecy, land and god, that there seems to be an impossibility of exit from an … Continue reading →

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refusniks

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Dave

Much ado about nothing? Its remarkable how the most ardent critics of Zionism are basically part of the same ideological swamp ; leftist foes of liberal democracy that could not function without stretching the boundaries of the state’s democratic pretext … Continue reading →

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burn baby burn

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Dave

They’ll sweep out the ashes in the morning. Hard to believe this news story; but it does invoke a number of themes. One may be there susceptibility to religious propaganda, and it actually gives credence to shit disturbers and rabble … Continue reading →

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hilltops to the sea

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Dave

The government implies the settlers relationship to the land exists only in a nominal sense, a legal and technical sense grounded in international law, and the larger sense of the international community and its administrative apparatus. A nominal sense for … Continue reading →

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the kicking the tires phase

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Dave

… Its the most unlikely, at least superficially pairing in the word. Christian fundamentalists and Land of Israel Jews in the West Bank or Judea and Samaria as they call it. A cosmic exile coming to an end? The old … Continue reading →

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