Tag Archives: Ulpana Beit El

while my sword gently weeps

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Deir Yassin, Gideon Levy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Menachen Begin, MK Michael Ben Ari, Nitzan Alon, Polish anti-semitism, Sir Harold MacMichael, Ulpana Beit El, Voltaire The Enlightenment, Yair Shamir, Yitzhak Shamir, Yossi Sarid | Leave a comment

just find a good tree

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Americans for Peace Now, Eritrean refugees Israel, Francisco Goya, Goya Disasters of War, gush katif, International Solidarity Movement ISM, Jacques Callot, Jewish Voices for Peace, Kfar Manda brawl with Eritreans, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mitchell Plitnick, MK Michael Ben Ari, Post Zionism, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, SOS Israel, thirty years war, Ulpana Beit El, William Hogarth, William Hogarth Wheel of Fortune | Leave a comment

hunger artists: culture of starvers

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Dave

Is the act of eating that of conformity, compliance, acceptance and complicity? And its opposite, starvation, often as a public and publicized act, a metaphor for protest? That is, the denial and rejection of food is a metaphor for intolerable … Continue reading →