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Tag Archives: Menachen Begin
souvenirs: glory days?
remember when….Is reality that the peace agreement with Egypt is an on-going fraud, “cold” peace or not. Some in Israel claim that it died before it was born and the semblance of peace is an illusion foisted on the Israeli … Continue reading
while my sword gently weeps
A shattering of certainty that had been shaky, even crumbling at best. The illusion beased on liberal enlightenment principles that peace was just at hand, and that reason and logic would bring out men’s better nature shaping a happy-ever-after ending … Continue reading
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Tagged Deir Yassin, Gideon Levy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Menachen Begin, MK Michael Ben Ari, Nitzan Alon, Polish anti-semitism, Sir Harold MacMichael, Ulpana Beit El, Voltaire The Enlightenment, Yair Shamir, Yitzhak Shamir, Yossi Sarid
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water under the allenby bridge
A lot of water under London Bridge and the Allenby Bridge. The Jordan seems to flow into the Thames. Somehow. It took Speke, Burton and Brown many years to locate the source of the Nile, but the Thames? Zionism, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Green, Adame Kirsch, Andrew Roberts, Brit-Am movement of the ten tribes, Gertrude Himmelfarb, King David Hotel bombing, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Menachen Begin, Moses Montefiore, Robert S. Wistrich, The Irgun, Tom Segev, Yair Davidy
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ascending to the temple mount
Twenty-eight years in opposition. Twenty-eight years as head of the official opposition. That was Menachem Begin. No where else in the world would someone ply on, election after election destined for official opposition status. The story goes, that Begin met … Continue reading
sixty-four
Sixty-four. The number of squares on a chessboard. The age of the modern state of Israel. An auspicious sign being as it is intrinsically linked to the Golden Mean and the divine proportion. Chess is an ancient game combining skill … Continue reading
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Tagged alan schechner, Camp David Peace Accords, Claims Conference Jewish Foundation, Giulio Meotti, Greg Schneider Holocaust fund, Holocaust Survivors' Fund, Israel Independence Day, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Julius Berman, Luba Kramrish, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, March of the Living, Menachen Begin
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footprints in the desert sand: eternal dust
A divine foundation for nature. Even human nature. The whole thing would probably be unintelligible to alien beings and the cold reason of modern rationalism, scientific inquiry that tends to fudge the facts, cannot really explain it. So, there must … Continue reading