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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
send it sky high?
His comments were about on the same level as Mohammed Morsi’s “jews descended from pigs and apes,” and it has been a chronic and pervasive piece of populist Jewish rhetoric to preach the need for blowing up the temple Mount … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Isaac Kook chief rabbi, Amnon Abramovich, Benny Morris Historian, Jeremy Gimpel, Land of Israel.com, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major General Uzi Narkiss, Mohamed Morsi, moshe dayan, Naftali Bennett, Naftali Bennett Jewish Home Party, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, six day war, Unterman chief rabbi Israel, Yehuda Nuriel, yitzhak rabin
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ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot
There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Bostom, benjamin disraeli, Benny Morris Historian, Benzion Netanyahu, Cairo Geniza, doug saunders globe and mail, Fouad Ajami, Golden Age of Muslim Spain, Heinrich Graetz, Jane Gerber, Maimonides, Maimonides in Egypt, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, meron benvenisti, Montesquieu, Moritz Steinschneider, Nicky Larkin director, Pierre Bayle, Piet Mondrian, Robert Wistrich, Shlomo Dov Goiten, Voltaire
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where’s that fire?
Going back over a thousand years ago, no less a figure than Maimonides remarked on the Jewish tendency to denial, a characteristic, he asserted that would only hasten their destruction. Although the context for Maimonides consternation was based on his … Continue reading
checkpoint
Taking the express train down into the tunnel known as apartheid. Certainly, a Hebrew state or a Jewbrew state held hostage by a minority that holds it over the majority is something not to shout, scream, kick and leap for … Continue reading
lost in the supermarket
It seemed like a good idea; drop into the market on the way home, grab some snacks and a few beers.Settlers without borders? Anarchists without frontiers? ..You have to think that tactics like the ISM is using is only going … Continue reading
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Tagged Activist Abir Kopty, Ami Horowitz, Benny Morris Historian, Darren Aronofsky, Glenn Beck Restoring Courage, ingrid pitt, International Solidarity Movement, kahanism, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Buber, meir kahane, Movie Pi, Oslo accords, Rabbi Meir Kahane, Rami Levy Supermarkets, the clash
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under their thumb
A long farewell piece from Israeli historian Benny Morris with the backdrop of the Jewish High Holidays and the Obama administration defending its position on Israel. Context is so much; and here its odd to read Morris, a died in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmadinejad at the U.N., Allon Plan, Avi Mayer, Benny Morris Historian, Conrad Black Jerusalem Post, Edgar Cayce, Ezer Weizman, Joseph Beuys, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mahmoud Darwish, Paul McCartney, Tadeusz Kantor, Tom Segev, Yasser Arafat
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