Tag Archives: menachem kahana

Do you compromise?

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dave

That’s an ironic headline. Considering it came in a fold-over card weight flyer in the weekend Globe and Mail for State of Israel bonds. Evidently, militarism, belligerence and bad faith negotiating, not to mention illegal settlements, human right violations, and … Continue reading →

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homeward bound: the strange figure in the back room

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Dave

Accordingly, because a homeland is not only territory but a primal element of personal and national identity, the division of the Land of Israel into two states is not only the sole political solution, it is also a moral imperative. … Continue reading →

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tiger’s leap into the past

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Dave

Roland Barthes once claimed that a society produces images, splices of mythologies peddled, as magical instruments to enforce a social order.All nations have their founding mythologies, the necessary illusions that maintain the social hierarchy. In Israel, it was conquering and … Continue reading →

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case of mistaken identity: but not in my backyard

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Dave

Mistaken identity and false pretense. Mistaken identity has always been the source for arriving at some rich existential meanings.But, behind fervent religious belief, is it the will to meaning in the sense of Victor Frankl, or some twisted ideology arising … Continue reading →

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on pain of death: the bonding process

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Dave

The dangers of militarism.And its connection with the two other ” triplets of evil” named by Martin Luther King Jr. : racism and consumerism. GRACE LEE BOGGS: I’m sorry, but I think if we stick to those categories of race, … Continue reading →

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everybody knows : too long in exile

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Dave

Everybody Knows. As Palestine steps up to the plate with a request, a demand to be granted statehood. Like the story Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer, we know the game is fixed, and Casey will whiff. Is this … Continue reading →

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greetings on this day

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Dave

A remnant people trying to tailor a fine suit out of rags. The solitary wanderer in his brand name estate. The concept of Judaism rests as an affirmation of the Diaspora and a rejection, in principle of Zionism, which can … Continue reading →