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ragged glory
There is something ironic about seeing that video of Danish protesters, unarmed and non-violent getting absolutely smashed silly by riot police and then juxtaposing that footage with the same ugly use of force against illegal Jewish settlers, – breaking secular … Continue reading
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Tagged Amona expulsion, Branch Rickey, Chutzpa Productions, Colonel Bird Bergen Belsen, cornell capa, eichmann trial, gilad shalit, gush katif, gush katif expulsion, Hatikva lyrics, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Igal Hecht, Naphtali Herz Imber, Noam Shalit, Robert Capa, St. George and the Dragon, Yom Ha'Shoah
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warsaw remembered
When Denis Goldberg was released from a South African prison for his role with Nelson Mandela and the ANC, he was, in a complicated arrangement, sent to Israel. It did not last long. Although part of his condition of release … Continue reading
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Tagged amona evacuation, denis goldberg, Edward Said, eichmann trial, gush katif, gush katif expulsion, israel occupation, israel porta-cells, jacobo timmerman, kol hashalom, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, meir margalit, Michael Albert Z communications, Noam Chomsky, prof. moshe zimmerman, ruti eisikowitch, shlomo gazit
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canto for a very old world order
Ezra Pound and Mussolini.The kind of hero worship that seems absurdly ridiculous today. Search for the father figure? Demented, this love for pathological killers recast as humanist heroes and purveyors of order and nobility in a world moving too fast … Continue reading
the great explainer
How is it possible that a Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman is declared by the American army to be mentally unfit for military duty while an out-and-out mental case like Adolf Eichmann is judged “normal” by six Israeli psychiatrist. … Continue reading
jerry as a jerrie: clowning in the shower
…Despite all efforts of the prosecution everybody could see that this man was not a monster, but it was difficult not to suspect that he was not a clown. ( Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem ) Written at the same time … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Art Spiegelman, bruce handy, drew friedman, eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Luc Godard, jean-Pierre Coursodon, Jerry Lewis, Max Horkheimer, Michael Ezra, peter schotten, Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful, sven lindberg, yvelyne wood
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this charming man: “glee”
He is ostensibly perfectly normal. He met his ex-wife on an internet dating service. He loved singing Lionel Ritchie and his Facebook profile indicated a fondness for Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas and Katy Perry, Levi Aron, the “singing … Continue reading
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Tagged black eyes peas, David Ben Gurion, debby kivel, edward g. robinson, eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, Lady Gaga, leiby kletzky, levi aron, louis lepke buchalter, Martin Buber, rich cohen author, Ted Bundy, ted bundy execution, timothy mcveigh, victor gollancz
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No! Art: confrontations on betrayal
It was at the expense of good manners.Its an alternate method to engage oneself with memory. The burbling graphic images resurfaced later in etchings, paintings and collages like blood clots moving through hardened arteries. Alternating between the jarring and the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged boris lurie, dietmar kirves, Donald Kuspit, Edward S. Herman, edward s. hermann, eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, Harold Rosenberg, Immanuel Kant, margaret bourke-white, Pablo Picasso, Raul Hilberg, sam goodman, stanley fisher, wilfred bion
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