Tag Archives: Norman Finkelstein

burning bushes

Darkness at noon. High Noon. It was inevitable that the religious and traditional Zionists would make common cause,attempt to create a new “middle” in Israeli society and dispatch some of the kooks to the dustbin of the political margins. Share … Continue reading

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none was too many

So it goes, that many assert that if man is to be truly free,then he must be free to make his own moral decisions, accepting or rejecting a given absolute moral standard, or else he is neither free nor even … Continue reading

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demographics are destiny

On the lamb….A rather ingenious, but vaguely anti-semitic piece to come out of Haaretz in Israel. And they wonder why less than 5% of Israeli’s read it and its going broke. For external consumption to a base of Heidegger style … Continue reading

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throw them an olive tree

Why tender them an olive branch when you can throw them a whole tree, in fact an entire logging camp of peace offerings… In looking at settler violence against Arabs, it has to be understood that these religious Jews, for … Continue reading

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plan-o-gram: the harder they come

The path of least resistance. Start by bringing up Chamberlain and equating Iran with Munich. Its ingenious because Iran could conceivably threaten the West, but the comparison with Iran’s capabilities, although extensive does not measure to the killing capacity of … Continue reading

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Business is business: a nation of traders?

1-800-kidnap. Its a new app. The kidnap app: does all the calculations, delivery charges, storage charges, maintenance charges. Any depreciation and product damage, insurance for product liability and any additional warranties on future performance that may fall short of expectations. … Continue reading

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good men in a storm?…raising canaan

It was believed that secular Zionism of the later nineteenth and early twentieth century was conceived to offer something distinct from the assimilationist currents that the Enlightenment and secular humanism was conceptually formulated to bring about. It was a ruse, … Continue reading

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alchemy of “the other”

The ultra-orthodox in Israel desecrated the Yad Vashem holocaust memorial this past week, and though one cannot really condone the act, the graffiti extensive as it was, is an expression that the narrative of the holocaust has been appropriated by … Continue reading

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tinkling the ivory: recital in the seraglio

Travel hint: Don’t mock Islamic beliefs about Paradise. Not even a John Milton connection about Paradise Lost. There are laws in Paradise, and its no place some some funky anarchist. Screw the Enlightenment. More Heidegger and less Voltaire. Although in … Continue reading

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steam rises : divide and conquer the elements

Human rights and human fights. There are such chasms of difference between the secular, humanistic, far left and the religious, Biblical based interpretation that mixes prophecy, land and god, that there seems to be an impossibility of exit from an … Continue reading

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