Tag Archives: Gideon Levy

checkpoint

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Dave

Taking the express train down into the tunnel known as apartheid. Certainly, a Hebrew state or a Jewbrew state held hostage by a minority that holds it over the majority is something not to shout, scream, kick and leap for … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Benny Morris Historian, Dr. Eyad Sarraj, Edward Said, Gideon Levy, Hanin Zoabi, Liberty Heights Movie, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Buber, meron benvenisti, Noam Chomsky, Toto Tamuz, Yossi Sarid | Leave a comment

coke or pepsi?

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Dave

Who is more dishonest, the Left or the Right? If Nate Silver was polling this scientifically, he would likely -19 times out of 20 with 5% deposit refundable on the empties- call it leaning with a qualified toss-up. It ultimately … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alison Weir, Arik Ascherman, Brian Wilson, Camille Pissarro, Dore Gold Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, ed koch, Edgar Degas, Ehud Yaari WINEP, Elad Association, Gideon Levy, glenn greenwald, ilan pappe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Marc Chagall hadassah Hospital windows, meron benvenisti, Nate Silver, Nate Silver pollster, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, The Carter Doctrine, thomas friedman new york times, Zalman Shoval | Leave a comment

power of the pulpit

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Dave

Religion 2.0. As long as they can see the light. It seems like a paradox, a type of oxymoron: religious Zionism. A nativist approach to the land, nation building, combined with the traditional diaspora values of power that are exclusive … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Gideon Levy, hammer films, ingrid pitt, Judge George Karra, Liora Minka, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Tzipi Hotovely, Moshe Katsav trial, Peter Beinart, Rabbi Michael Melchior, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, Richard Silverstein, Victoria Vetri | Leave a comment

something doesn’t smell right

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Dave

And thus spake Zarathustra…Business is business, but in terms of public relations its not the most exciting coup of the year. That a German investment group that according to Der Spiegel made its pile of loot from conficated jewish property … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Alfred DuMont, Alfred Neven DuMont, Amos Schocken, Arlozoroff Assassination, Arlozoroff transfer agreement, Avi Primor IDC, Dov Chanin MK, Dov Khenin MK, DuMont Schauberg Group, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Frans Snyders, Gideon Levy, Jean Antoine Watteau, Kurt DuMont, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Salman Schocken, Simon Stein Likud, Steven Plaut, Yossi Sarid | Leave a comment

red necked or stiff necked

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Dave

Of course its idiotic. So over the top dog-gonned stupid that it makes no sense. But as P.T. Barnum said, never underestimate the intelligence of the ( Israeli) public. Good to rattle a few secular feathers. Maybe squeeze a feature … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baruch Marzel, Ben Dror Yemini, Elizabeth Taylor Israel, Gideon Levy, Har Hamor Yeshiva, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Madonna in Israel, Martha Rosler, Moshe Katsav, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Simon Wiesenthal, Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, Rabbi Zvi Tau, Ron Myberg, Steven Plaut, Yossi Sarid | Leave a comment

while my sword gently weeps

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Dave

A shattering of certainty that had been shaky, even crumbling at best. The illusion beased on liberal enlightenment principles that peace was just at hand, and that reason and logic would bring out men’s better nature shaping a happy-ever-after ending … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Deir Yassin, Gideon Levy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Menachen Begin, MK Michael Ben Ari, Nitzan Alon, Polish anti-semitism, Sir Harold MacMichael, Ulpana Beit El, Voltaire The Enlightenment, Yair Shamir, Yitzhak Shamir, Yossi Sarid | Leave a comment

stimulus projects: shovel ready redemption

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Dave

…Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes part of the ceremony. Kafka, Parables and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barry Chamish, Edmund Levy, Franz Kafka, Gideon Levy, Hugo Hoppe, J.C. Lavater, Joseph Tommy Lapid, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Englander, Max Sichel, MK Yariv Levin, Moshe Feiglin, paul schutzer, Plesner Commission, Rabbi Moshe Shternbach, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin, Yair Lapid, Yassam special forces, Yossi Sarid | Leave a comment

steampunk yasser: his gabriel’s horns

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Dave

Thrift shops. Goodwill stores. It’s amazing what you can find there if you dig hard enough and reach into the bottom of the bargain bin or the pay by weight baskets. Of course sensationalism. The news report does not explain … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ahmad Jibril, Arafat polonium poisoning, Ariel Sharon, Chaplin Monsieur Verdoux, Dr. Kurt Lisso, Edward Trelawny, Gideon Levy, Ion Mihai Pacepa, margaret bourke-white, Nicolae Ceausescu, Shelley's Skull, Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat polonium, Yassir Arafat polonium, Yossi Sarid | Leave a comment

kings and mullahs of comedy

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Dave

Did you ever hear the joke about the Iman and the Grand Mufti? Not likely.Loose lips mean loose and lost limbs in some markets. Arthur Godfey’s talent scouts would have found Nirvana. Comic and predictable. Like a second rate comic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alastair Burt, Beit El Ulpana evacuation, Billy Crystal Mr. Saturday Night, Catherine Ashton, Gideon Levy, Israel Samaria and Judea, John Baird, Meir Dagan, Mohammed-Reza Rahimi, Sami Michael, Tom Segev, Yair Lapid, Yossi Sarid | Leave a comment

transfer agreements

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dave

Its the superficial liberal values; essentially reinforcing and continuing the template that was started in the 1930′s with the Transfer Agreement worked out with the early Zionists and the Nazis that brought out 70,000 of the richest German jews to … Continue reading →