Tag Archives: gush katif

cool down the warm up act

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Dave

At the core is a concern for life and security. The Oslo and Hebron agreements, the Gush Katif expulsion were heralded as signs of Israel’s willingness to bypass its concern for land and focus on making peace.However the very reason … Continue reading →

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it was just a piece of paper

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Dave

Like a good neighbor? And so ends the peace process. Hey, it was only a scrap of paper ad worth about as much. This could get very ugly. In fact, the entire land for peace charade was a scandal from … Continue reading →

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the silly season: rambam in gaza

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Dave

It is the crazy summer season. The season of festivals. The Missile and retaliation festival. One of the side features of the Oslo tailgate party. UNESCO at the urging of Islamic state members has just finished rebranding Jewish sage Rambam, … Continue reading →

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have horse will trample

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Dave

Stampede in a one horse town. Wild horses could not drag them away…An unwashed mob, scheming to steal the ruling class’s public prestige, the social capital of “neutrality” ; making them look bad. “And after all we’ve done for them!” … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amir Peretz, Amona expulsion, Beit El mayor Moshe Rosenbaum, Beit-El, Benny Rahamin, Binyamin Citizens' Committee, Davey Crockett The Alamo, Gary Cooper High Noon, gush katif, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Rabbi Kook, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed, Robert Onderdonk, Ulpana Neighborhood, Yassam special forces | Leave a comment

just find a good tree

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Dave

All’s quiet on the Leftern Front. How can the left massage the data, strain some liberal secular humanism out of the issue of attempted lynching of Sudanese refugees/illegals in the Moslem Israel village of Kfar Manda. Here, they don’t have … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Americans for Peace Now, Eritrean refugees Israel, Francisco Goya, Goya Disasters of War, gush katif, International Solidarity Movement ISM, Jacques Callot, Jewish Voices for Peace, Kfar Manda brawl with Eritreans, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mitchell Plitnick, MK Michael Ben Ari, Post Zionism, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, SOS Israel, thirty years war, Ulpana Beit El, William Hogarth, William Hogarth Wheel of Fortune | Leave a comment

marduk chronicles

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Dave

A society in transition. There are post-modern trends in Israeli society, but where they will lead and how one will arrive is an exercise in reading the grains of sand in the Negev for clues. At heart is can there … Continue reading →

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in the blink of an eye

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amos Elon, Ariel Sharon, Ariel Sharon Gush Katif, Gunter grass, gush katif, Gush Katif museum, Howard Zinn, Joseph Nedava, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Theodor Herzl, Zoltan Kluger | 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 →

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radical heroes for a radical culture

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Dave

The game started in 1948 with the establishment of the state. Someone has to continue playing the role of the donkey. A rage against the machine. To fight for home, wife and children. The citizen is the donkey tied to … Continue reading →

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the last train in vain

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Dave

from Zinn Education Project: On April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began when Nazi forces attempted to clear out the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to send them to concentration camps. The Germans were met … Continue reading →