Tag Archives: Golda Meir

from wadi to shining wadi

…Not only is the land for peace theory dangerous; it has little logic to recommend it, perhaps diplomatically, but not militarily. Giving away land for peace means exchanging strategic positions for a mere piece of paper. And it is legitimate … Continue reading

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tears and fears: RIP (through) holy land

Attack Jerusalem? Launching rockets on the eternal city? Imagine the irony if a Hamas rocket hits the Dome of the Rock? Recoil time to play in the rubble. Something here about Walter Benjamin’s idea of children playing in trash and … Continue reading

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who cares what other people think…

Some things never change. Way back when David Ben Gurion said something to the effect…”What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.” So it was then,  and so, to a great degree, it is today. … Continue reading

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read their lips: talkin’ shop at solomon’s stables

…“Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” (Statement to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., 1957) ….“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for … Continue reading

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faking the real: postures in palestine

A modern aesthetic rebellion against bourgeois existence. Its an ambiguous rhetoric, an in-between, between aesthetic and political radicalism that never commits to either; like the British promising the same dunams of land to jew and arab. As protest, it is … Continue reading

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everything must go

That entire cultures could be formed on the basis of hated, or villainization seems almost too absurd to be possible. As the Arab Spring revealed, the whole phony nature of restricting civil rights, outright repression was based on the phony … Continue reading

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sweeping the sand from the golden door

We have just passed the forty-forth anniversary of the Six Day War. In part, a war based on certain reclamation myths and Jewish revisionism that appropriates necessary ingredients form the bible into the mythological recipe of a national homeland.  Somewhat … Continue reading

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REVOLUTION No. 9/10 tenths OF THE LAW IS POSSESSION

You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it’s evolution Well, you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don’t you … Continue reading

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