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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
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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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Donald Kuspit, Emil Fackenheim, Fritz Hershberger, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Norman Finkelstein, Orly Yadin Silence, Samuel Bak, Theodor Adorno, Theodor Adorno Auschwitz, yvelyne wood, Yvrlyne Wood
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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
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anna Baltzer, John F. Kennedy letter Palestine trip 1939, John F. Kennedy Palestine, Kennedy letter to father about Palestine 1939, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Beinart, Shilo West Bank, Vincent Van Gogh
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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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Tagged Ari Fleischer, Arlozoroff transfer agreement, Bernard Lewis historian, Harriet Sherwood Guardian, Jimmy Cliff, Lisa Goldman, michael bloomberg, Moncef Marzonki, Netanyahu Cartoon Bomb Meme, Netanyahu speech UNGA, Neville Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain Munich, Norman Finkelstein, Theodor Adorno Culture Industry, Transfer Agreement Eichmann, Transfer Agreement israel Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged 9/11 Memorial Jerusalem, Bashar Al Assad, Dan Shapiro U.S. Embassy Irsarel, doug saunders globe and mail, Edward Said, Efim Weinstein, ehud olmert, Eliezer Weishoff sculptor, Eric Saunders, Free Syrian Army, Free Syrian Army Kidnappings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Norman Finkelstein, Red Hot Chili Peppers Israel, Saad Hariri, Sheikh Nazem Abu Salim, Yitzhak Aharonovitch
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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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Tagged Anna Porter, Ben Hecht, Benjamin Halevi, Edwin Black, eichmann trial, Francisco Gil-White, Francois Genoud, George Soros, Glenn Beck, Haavara Agreement, Hannah Arendt, jabotinsky, Joel Brand, Malchiel Greenwald, Meir Dagan, Meretz Party, Moshe Sharett, Norman Finkelstein, Rudolf Kastner, Rudolf Kasztner, Shinui Party, Tommy Lapid, uri avnery, Yair Lapid
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Avner Shalev Yad Vashem, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo, Doris Zinkstein, Edith Birkin, eichmann trial, Eric Taylor, Hannah Arendt, Haredim Israel deface yad vashem, Hieronymous Bosch, Leslie Cole, Leslie Coles, Mary Kessell, Morris Kestleman, Norman Finkelstein, Roman Halter, Wen Jiabao, Wen Jiabo visits Auschwitz, Yad Vashem Museum defaced
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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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Tagged Ahmet III Tulip Era, Auguste Roubille, Chris Hedges, Christopher Hitchens, Fazil Say, Fazil Say pianist, Franz Werfel, Gentile Bellini, Madame Girardin wife of French ambassador, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Mimar Sinan University, Norman Finkelstein, Omar Khayyam, orhan pamuk, Rambam, Slavoj Zizek, Sylvester Stallone, Tariq Ramadan, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, Voltaire The Enlightenment
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