Tag Archives: Mohamed Morsi

morsi: falling into gideon’s well

Connect the dots and build your own labyrinth.There is a tendency to anesthetize and aestheticize critical content in popular culture into a clean commercial package. Certainly films like Argo and Zero Dark Thirty which are nuanced political thrillers which are … Continue reading

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send it sky high?

His comments were about on the same level as Mohammed Morsi’s “jews descended from pigs and apes,” and it has been a chronic and pervasive piece of populist Jewish rhetoric to preach the need for blowing up the temple Mount … Continue reading

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morsi in de-nile

The E1 proposed development in Jerusalem East. E1= Morsi as M.C. scared…So Morsi said Jews are descendents of pigs and apes and by extension perhaps snakes and vampires since they are blood suckers as well. Perhaps his message can be … Continue reading

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calorie counter

What does being a bit of a plumper have to do with the fiery rhetoric and popular rabble-rousing appeal. Is the gist here that Nasrallah has become rotund and contented, succumbing to bourgeois opulence and a Martha Stewart lifestyle. Or … Continue reading

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tunnel vision: rejigging the disposition matrix

Atheist reinforcement workshops. Death and destruction in the Middle East. Its always racist, violence and excessive. But its holy. Somehow sanctified under some tawdry pretext for the greater good and the glory of the almighty, someone’s almighty of the moment. … Continue reading

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clearing the bush

That’s freedom! Freedom to choose between Tide and ivory, between Corn Flakes and Cheerios, freedom to consume transformed high profit margin global brands who spend so massively on marketing and publicity as to make Hollywood look like poor orphans. The … Continue reading

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that brown eyed handsome man

It keeps coming back to “is there a lesson of Munich?” With the Obama administration’s apparent appeasement of terror supporting states which has been perceived to prove the contempt of this administration’s antagonism towards Israel and a certain ideology around … Continue reading

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moving sale

Its always the same story:in the grip of forces they do not really understand; something out of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Behind all these protestors and “freedom fighters” is a risk of unchaining a process that cannot be contained … Continue reading

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cinema noir: puppet show

Of course the film itself is idiotic, hateful, and poorly made. A hate crime in itself. To claim it cost $7 million to make is absurd. So, either it was a convenient pretext for an attack that may have been … Continue reading

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last call: accept no substitutes

Mohammed, two years before his death, had met his immediate goals. The Moslem faith, once practiced by a persecuted minority, was now, through the Word and more preponderantly, by the Sword, was now a state religion. He was strong enough … Continue reading

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