Tag Archives: ehud barak

throwing rational onto the scrapheap

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Dave

Defy the instincts. Don’t listen to them. Put masking tape around the mouth of that inner voice. Rationally, logically, it was said it could not be done, something in direct contradiction to the “laws of nature.” At a rational level, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Dan Shomron, Doron Almog, Dov Seltzer, ehud barak, Entebbe Hostage rescue, Ilan Hartuv, Matan Vilnai, Operation Thunderbolt, Raid on Entebbe, Slavoj Zizek, William Stevenson, Yonatan Netanyahu | Leave a comment

playing tricks with the laws of nature

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Dave

Entebbe.We saw it with our own eyes. And to those eyes it did not make sense. According to all calculations it could not possibly be achieved. There was only the slimmest of chance.One would have to ignore all the calculations … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charles Bronson, Dom Shomron, Dora Bloch, Doron Almog, ehud barak, Entebbe Hostage rescue, Entebbe raid, Gen. Mordechai Gur, Ilan Hartuv, Matan Vilnai, Operation Thunderbolt, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Sarah Davidson, Sayeret Matkal, shimon peres, Yonatan Netanyahu | Leave a comment

bad taste blindfold test

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dave

A strange paradigm. Where there are more synagogues looted, desecrated and burned in the Land of Israel than in the entire diaspora combined. Where the polemics of anti-Judaism are considered a rite of passage and armchair sport for the loose-lipped … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged ehud barak, eichmann trial, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Hannah Hoch, Harel Cohen, Jeff Jacoby, Jim Allen, John Heartfield, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meir Dagan, Meir Dagan Mossad, Migron settlement issue, MK Danny Danon, Neville Chamberlain, The Kastner Trial, Tommy Lapid, Yair Lapid | Leave a comment

migron: peace for land

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Dave

The former head of the Mossad, Meir Dagan, says religious jews are the main problem in Israel, the head of the Meretz party, Zahava Galon, uses the terminology “jew-boys” to describe religious supporters of the settler movement, and the head … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barry Chamish, Baruch Marzel, ehud barak, Gershon Mesika, Meir Dagan, Meretz Party, Migron expulsion, MK Zahava Galon, Oslo accords, Rabbi Israel Solomon, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabin assassination, Ron Kemplar, ron kempler film, Shai Gefen, Zahava Galon | 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

pouring salt on the dream: land of wine and roses

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Dave

Radical Jewish culture. It seems to be the natural habitat of the near geniuses, the brilliant, the firebrands, the authentic rebels and the general shit disturbers motivated by a profound conviction. Come to think of it, Zionism has and will … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amona expulsion, Benny Katzover, ehud barak, eichmann trial, gilad shalit, gush katif expulsion, Gush Katif museum, Hannah Arendt, John Zorn, john zorn circle maker, marc ribot, Max Horkheimer, Meir Dagan, mendel schneerson, MK Danny Danon, MK Danon, MK Michael Ben Ari, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, SOS Israel, Yoav Galant | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Bill Maher, Burning of the Jews Coita, Christopher Hitchens, Daniella Weiss, ehud barak, George Washington, gilad shalit, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Migron expulsion, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Sacha Baron Cohen, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

civil disobedience

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Dave

Civil Disobedience? Part of the problem is that they are so unlike us. They are completely removed from nearly all elements of pop culture, yet are part of the technological dissemination applied in a totally different manner, one indifferent to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged "hero of Israel" certificate, Amona expulsion, ehud barak, Glenn Beck, Gunter Grass israel, Gunter Grass Zionism, gush katif expulsion, Gush Katif museum, Gush Katif Museum Dinner, Hebron Jewish settlers, John Bolton, Judea and Samaria, Land of Israel group, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Migron expulsion, MK Michael Ben Ari, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabbi Wolpo | Leave a comment

at the frontier edge

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Dave

Strange bedfellows indeed. From the point of view of the Torah, political Zionism, statehood is anathema to fundamental religious thought. Which puts the adherents of Torah in the same soup tureen as super secular critics such as Christopher Hitchens, Harold … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Cave of the Patriarchs Hebron, Christopher Hitchens, ehud barak, Gunter grass, gush katif, Harold Pinter, Hevron Beit HaMach pela, Itamar Yaoz-Kest, Jews from Amona, Kiryat Arba hebron, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Migron settlement, Olmert regime Israel, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, Yigal Allon | Leave a comment

the syrian bridesmaid revisited

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Dave

What if you shave off the rhetorical baggage and ideology from the individual? What is left after sifting through the debris of myth and stereotype and generalization while hoping to eye a few shards; archaeological artifacts of the real? What … Continue reading →