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colonizing salvation
We don’t want salvation, we want the messiah! Or do you? If given a million dollars or the messiah arriving? Well, maybe the million, and the messiah a little later. Clearly, the the poor sufferers in the Death Camps of … Continue reading
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Tagged Avner Shalev Yad Vashem, Chief Rabbi Meir Lau, Gunter grass, Haredim Israel deface yad vashem, Joel Schalit, John Koch, Lucian Freud, Maurizio Cattelan, melanie phillips, Slavoj Zizek, tom wesselmann, tony judt, Udi Aloni, Yad Vashem Museum defaced, Yves Klein
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grass roots
Nihilism and anarchism? If, as you read a book, you feel that the author hates you and all the fabric of your life, that his chief purposes in writing are to communicate to you his loathing and his scorn, and … Continue reading
when the grass is too long…
The chief import of Gunter Grass’s The Tin Drum is neither nationalist satire nor the torment of lost identity. It is misanthropy, hated, the wish to shock and nauseate the reader. The book is full of cruelty; witnessed by Oscar, … Continue reading
fantasy on the life of the hybrid
The Tin Drum. At first sight this monstrous book looks as thought it might be a satire on the life of Germany during the Hitler era, the war, and the postwar boom. Its hero has a German name and thinks … Continue reading
tin drums: marching to a different beat
…Nobel laureate Günter Grass is expected to be released from a Hamburg hospital within days, after undergoing what his secretary called a routine test. Grass was admitted on Monday, less than two weeks after his poem criticising Israel triggered a … Continue reading
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Tagged Gunter grass, Gunter Grass israel, Gunter Grass The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass Zionism, Henryk M. Broder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marieluise Beck, MK David Rotem, MK Robert Ilatov, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Fassbinder, Zvi Rex psychoanalyst
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in the blink of an eye
As the first rays of the morning sun. Like Howard Zinn made a career out of destroying or at least exposing America’s founding myths as being blatant lies founded on a contrived aegis of moral rectitude, wisdom and a few … Continue reading
new frontier: beyond his grassp
Do you believe that on that day all the children of Abraham are going to lay down their swords forever and eternally in Jerusalem. What to make of Gunter Grass? The pen as sword but within the context of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Dershowitz, beinart, Daniel Gordis, Emma Thompson actress, gershom gorenberg, Gunter grass, Gunter Grass israel, Gunter Grass Zionism, gush emunim, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, richard falk, Salman Rushdie, Stephen Lendman, Steven Plaut
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tin drum solo: private concert
Trivialities and profound truths. This spit and spat match with Gunter Grass can be seen as using Israel and Jews as a pretext for his own bashing of a new Germany, one remarkably different than his own version, which has … Continue reading
lost highway: back to the city of the patriarchs
The self-hater. it has nothing to do with Gunter Grass’s stupid poem. His meta argument that its not the state its the government, is hoary socialist cant from the left; a socialist attacking Zionism is a family squabble at best. … Continue reading
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Tagged anna freud, Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Daniel Burros, Frank Collin, Franz Kafka, Gideon Levy, Gideon Levy Hebron, Gilbert Frankeau, Gunter grass, Hannah Arendt, Hebron expulsion, Hebron Passover 2012, Lucian Freud, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Noam Arnon, Slavoj Zizek, T.S. Eliot, The Groggers, William Loeb, Zionism Origins
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