Tag Archives: Yamit expulsion

concessions: the concession stand is always open

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Dave

Eyes on Zion. Peace can never be achieved when only one side gives and the other merely receives. This does not nurture an attitude of respect for an adversary. On the contrary, weakness encourages an adversary to try to take … Continue reading →

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it was just a piece of paper

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Dave

Like a good neighbor? And so ends the peace process. Hey, it was only a scrap of paper ad worth about as much. This could get very ugly. In fact, the entire land for peace charade was a scandal from … Continue reading →

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every grain of sand

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Dave

Picasso called his painting, “the sum of destructions”, Marcel Duchamp went further into conceptual form with the ready-made, banal objects such as urinals converted into works of art. This was the so called “shock of the new” the beginning of … Continue reading →

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footprints in the desert sand: eternal dust

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Dave

A divine foundation for nature. Even human nature. The whole thing would probably be unintelligible to alien beings and the cold reason of modern rationalism, scientific inquiry that tends to fudge the facts, cannot really explain it. So, there must … Continue reading →

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walking on old stones: no stone unturned

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dave

Ziononism is racism. Not really. If anything its a form of self-hatred that denies any element of the spiritual within the individual. Like the art critic Clement Greenberg, who acknowledged his own Jewish self hatred and said the spiritual in … Continue reading →