Tag Archives: MK Michael Ben Ari

voting for the divine spark

Bending spoons in Judea and Samaria. Strange things happen when you mix politics and religion. The two keep colliding into each other even if pried apart with a crowbar. As to borrow the American phrase, Israel is not a Jewish … Continue reading

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Israel elections: problems confronting self image…

…Completely ignored as a campaign theme was the thorny issue of the Arab peace effort, such as it is, and the deep seated anxiety that besets Israel with regard to what other nations say and think rather that on Israel’s … Continue reading

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israel elections: fringe festival

They had a basic message, but instead succumbed to the nationalism as inferiority complex syndrome and left true patriotism on the table. The extreme right was dusted off the electoral map and hopefully that kind of Kahanism and the demagoguery … Continue reading

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Visionary or megalomaniac?

No, not Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Fred Flinstones Order of the Buffalo or the Karnak Temple whirling dervish go-cart 500. Akhenaten and another sort of religious revolution based on monotheism and worship of the sun god Aten. … Continue reading

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winning friends and influencing people

An act of kitsch, camp taste welded to a bizarre form of performance art. By any esthetic measure it could be seen as an ethically depraved act. Even a criminal act that wills a form of radical evil. There is … Continue reading

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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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normal: what them worry?

Stiff necked? For sure. The perils of Pauline in the desert is clear evidence of that, an unruly nature not easily buying into the coach’s plans for victory and redemption,perhaps setting the seeds for the later exile. But today is … Continue reading

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whole in the soul or a-hole in the journalist?

This kind of shilling for the ruling secular elite in Israel, exemplified politically now through the mouths, of babes, like Yair Lapid sees it mediatic counterpart on the print side with Yossi Sarid, a real hate monger by any objective … Continue reading

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just find a good tree

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

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what goes around

Drones are certainly here; this kind of soft-ware based warfare of which the FLAME virus and Stuxnet were also manifestations of this information age off-shoot where industrial age economics is displaced to a backseat in favor of digital technologies and … Continue reading

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