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giving an inch to allah
Inch Allah. Its a game of inches. Do people who write and make films that glorify through the narrative of “humanization” aid and abet forces helping to destroy, stonewall, or indefinitely postpone the possibility for peace, instead turning the conflict … Continue reading
camp david: spurning divine gifts…
Camp David Peace Accords. Almost all concessions were unnecessary. Begin could have walked away with a treaty without making any substantial concessions. Is this mere conjecture? Not at all, because on one of the most sensitive points of the negotiations, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anwar Sadat, Camp David Peace Accords, Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post, Daniel Gordis Jerusalem Post, H.G. Wells, Jerusalem final status negotiations, Jimmy Carter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Mahmoud al-Zahar, Menachem Begin
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thirty years wasted
Why do wars begin both great and small? The world lives in fear of the “incident” such as in the Cold War or now perhaps Iran or Korea that will spark the next great conflict. But ultimately, it is men … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Wallenstein, Feodor Dietz, Jacques Callot, Jacques Callot Miseries of War, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Mohammed Morsi, Operation Pillar of Defense, The Thirty Years War
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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
lap of luxury
Let them eat falafel. It’s a lot of money. But Arafat had big bucks too. All this smoke signals and noises about statehood from the Palestinian Authority could just be hot air used as a pretext for money. Blackmail. Or, … Continue reading
when the revolution comes
How is it that after the Arab Spring, the regimes in place seem committed to the same repression that preceded it. In fact it may have opened the lid on a pandora’s box of thousands of wacko religious nuts going … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged arab spring, blind willie mctell, Bob Dylan, Charles Manson cover Life, Corey Robin, Hannah Arendt, Iran universities Women enrollment, Iran women's rights, Is God Dead cover Time Magazine, Jeff Himmelman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Oxfam Yemen, Yemen economy
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breakfast in america: pass on the second helpings
Obama and those “new democracies.” They have to loosen up, chill out, get down and let if flow. But what about the old dogs in the area, or are they granted a free pass, a get out of jail card, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Allen Ginsberg, Dershowitz Formula, Iggy Pop, Jack Kerouac, jerry seinfeld, jim jarmusch, Larry Rivers, mahmoud abbas, Malcolm Hoenlein, Mohamad Morsi, Morsi at Hooters, Noam Chomsky, Robert Wexler former U.S. Congressman, Roger Hodgson Supertramp, thomas friedman new york times, Tom Waits
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string game
We seem to always tragically misapply the lessons of the past. From Munich, to Vietnam, to Iraq to the Palestinians, to Iran. Nothing could be more naive than the notion that a fixed record of the past exists. History is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abu Mazan, abu mazen, Alex de Toqueville, Benny Katz, Hendrik Hertzberg, Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Noam Chomsky, PA Authority Oslo Accords, Roger Tucker, Salaam Fayad, Stephen Lendman, uri avnery, Yuval Steinitz
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