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Tag Archives: Theodor Herzl
dreyfus was a goner
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus… …By having Du Paty deliver his memorandum at the last minute in a semi-clendestine way, and by enjoining the court to keep its contents secret, Gen. Auguste Mercier deprived the defense of its legal right … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged amedeo modigliani, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Chaim Soutine, Col. Jean Sandherr, Emile Zola, Frederick Brown, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gen. Felix Gustave Saussier, Hannah Arendt Dreyfus, Joseph Henry Drefus Affair, louis begley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Marcel Proust, Maurice Weil, Piers Paul Read, Roman Polanski Dreyfus film, Ruth harris Dreyfus, Siegfried Thalheimer historian, The Dreyfus Affair, Theodor Herzl, Vincent Duclert historian
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throw someone under the bus, not just anyone
“Harold dear, (Sir Harold MacMichael) there’s a nice looking man at the door wanting to see you. presentable. he says he knows Lord Moyne, …and by the way, he’s holding a gun. A rather large one. Imagine, in our neighborhood,” … Continue reading
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Tagged Anwar Sadat, Avraham Stern, Edward Said, Folke Bernadotte, Folke Bernadotte assassination, Harold Macmillan, Lord Moyne assassination, Martin Buber, max dimont, Moses Mendelssohn, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Sir Harold MacMichael, Stern Gang, Theodor Herzl, Yitzhak Shamir
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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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Tagged Benny Gantz, Christopher Hitchens, daphni leef, David Ben Gurion, G.K. Chesterton, Gilles Deleuze, Harold Bloom, Joel Schalit, Marcel Duchamp, MK Michael Ben Ari, MK Regev, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Herzl, tony judt, Udi Aloni, Yassam special forces, Zionism
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willingly the ghetto: knowledge acquired in childhood
Eastside and Westside story. Two different worlds. Zionism in the form of Herzl was really the creation of white liberal social democratic thinking. A conjunction of the Enlightenment connected to a Jewish identity that could be refashioned in the age … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Arkin, Balachovitz, Bielski Jewish partisans, Danny kaye, efraim halevy, eichmann trial, Frank Dimant, Freida Pinto, Gideon Hausner, Hannah Arendt, Harvey Weinstein, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Joseph Trumpeldor, Julian Schnabel, Julian Schnabel Miral, Liev Schreiber, Louis Rukeyser, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Ronen, Rula Jebreal, Shlomo Carlebach, Theodor Herzl, Zeev Jabotinsky
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none was too many
They really didn’t want them. In terms of “positive and useful human material” they were wanting. They were a remnant of a remant, one with frayed fibers, holes and separating at the seams. The dregs of the dregs. Israel really … Continue reading
in the blink of an eye
As the first rays of the morning sun. Like Howard Zinn made a career out of destroying or at least exposing America’s founding myths as being blatant lies founded on a contrived aegis of moral rectitude, wisdom and a few … Continue reading
too solitudes: two little too late
A Bottle in the Sea of Gaza. Advertised as a pacifist message of hope and reconciliation is based on the two solitudes premise, ostensibly in the film that posits the secular perspective of bridging societies uniting them in the process … Continue reading
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Tagged a bottle in the sea of gaza, Ariel Sharon, Benoit Charest, Erez Crossing, gush katif expulsion, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Zahava Galon, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Sylvain Belemare, Theodor Herzl, thierry binisti, valerie zenatti
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rothschild & buber: real life is encounters with the 133 year bond
its an incongruous combination that two men so patently different should somehow be connected inextricably to the Jewish people and a jewish homeland. On the one hand, Baron Edmond de Rothschild feared zionism, had an anathema for democracy, and became, … Continue reading
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