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fire works show

If it ends up to be a lousy division, the two state solution, the Palestinians will tap into the well-spring of past abuse and humiliation feeding on the sense of being crippled, suffering and angry which is likely to get … Continue reading

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obama: just waitin’ on a friend

So, in full non-compliance against the Peace Process Agreement, and most likely with the complicity of the Obama administration, the Egyptian Army entered the Sinai last month with armoured vehicles and tanks, in effect, doing what they wanted: a pretext … Continue reading

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gas mask time: gimme shelter

Gas mask time? Or time to put the political leaders into quarantine? The problem, and this is endemic to all democracies is the politicization of the Armed services. The military becomes subordinate to political considerations such as elections, timing, public … Continue reading

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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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the syrian bridesmaid revisited

What if you shave off the rhetorical baggage and ideology from the individual? What is left after sifting through the debris of myth and stereotype and generalization while hoping to eye a few shards; archaeological artifacts of the real? What … Continue reading

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