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empathy notwithstanding: doomed, but to what?
… after the UN had sanctioned, seemingly miraculously, the state of Israel with its original two-state solution, Hannah Arendt , with some justification, foresaw that if Jews were to survive its War of Independence, they would realize the achievements of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alanis Morrisette Israel, Anton Chekhov, Bernard Choseed, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, ehud barak, George Mitchell Israel, Haim Saban, Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt Israel, Hermann Cohen, Hillary Clinton Saban Forum, Iron Dome Defense System, isaac babel, madame pickwick art blog, Nikolai Gogol, Operation Pillar of Defense, saban forum 2012, Suha Arafat
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and it bit them
And Esau bit Jacob. Forget that Esau ran toward jacob and embraced him and kissed him. The kiss of death perhaps. The hate goes back that far. The French primo intellectual Jean Paul Sartre, a bit of a waffler between … Continue reading →
no no songs
Bond author Ian Fleming’s antihero Goldfinger once said “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” At least according to Fleming, the author of James Bond. How would Goldfinger deal with Obama? The man who looks ready … Continue reading →
naked lunch
Mohamad Morsi. Not the sharpest pencil in the box, or simply another Islamic demagogue, cum weirdo, cum cargo cult prophet of the deprived? Hard to tell, despite all efforts to pander to the choir who know the tune by heart. … Continue reading →
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Tagged arlo guthrie, Chuck Norris, Danny Danon, Deyaa Rashwan, ehud barak, Hugh Hefner, Lou Reed, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Danny Danon, Mohamad Morsi, Morsi at Hooters, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, neil young, Omer Djellil, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney Run Devil Run, Sarah Palin, Sayyid Qutb, willie nelson
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annie oakley: happiness is a warm gun?
From a piece in the New York Times on a woman’s account of her experience with religious men in the Israel Defense Forces; its the kind of pieces the NYT specializes in. Demonizing and creating an “other” and then building … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barry Chamish, Chabad israel, ehud barak, Eliezer Moses Deputy Education Minister, Eritrean refugees Israel, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Haredi in the IDF, IDF women, Israel Democracy Institute, israel politics, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul schutzer photography, Steven Plaut, Tal Law israel, Transfer Agreement, Yossi Sarid, Zionism, Zoltan Kluger
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throw a rock of ages
Are there legitimate reasons to criticize what is perceived as extreme left foreign policy. The supporting of a gaggle of twisted ideologies and Islamic fundamentalists heck bent for leather as the Gipper would say? Is there good reason to explain … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adi Kedar attorney, Adi Kedar Honenu, Austere Challenge 12, Awlaki assassination, Barack Obama 2012, Breitbart, charles krauthammer, Ehud Banai, ehud barak, Judith Butler, Mitt Romney 2012, Mohamad Morsi, Noam Chomsky, robert fisk, Ryan Zinke SOFA, SEAL ad Bow to Nobody, Stephen J. Kramer, Theodor Adorno, thomas friedman
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on the cusp of the second awakening
The reality of Arabism was misted, and presently this inner uncertainty , expressed in endemic feuds and rivalries, led to the collapse of Arab power. The decline was more protracted than the rise… The Arabs burst out of their peninsula … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abdullah Al-Ahmar, Al Sufi Book of Fixed Stars, al-Jahiliyah The Ignorance, British Mandate Palestine, Daniel Brumberg, Daniel Brunberg, ehud barak, Faruq Ash-Shar defection, IDF violence, John Phillips photography, Michel Kilu, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, Nasrallah, Nasrallah Lebanon, Salafists Egypt, thomas friedman, thomas friedman new york times
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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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Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Bruce Reidel, Carney Obama, Cindy Sherman, cornel west, David Frum, Dr. Stanley Coren, efraim halevy, ehud barak, Iran Nuclear bomb, John Carney, Leon Panetta, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Widlanski, Obama NIE report, Peter Berkowitz, Stuart Levy, Valerie Jarrett
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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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Tagged Ahmadinejad and Israel, Ami Horowitz, Andrew Goldberg, Baruch Marzel, efraim halevy, ehud barak, General Schwartzkopf, Goldstone report, Iron Dome defense, Iron Dome missile system, Jimmy Cliff, Kadima Tzipi Livni, Leon Panetta, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gays in Iran, Mayor Lahat Tel Aviv, Sam Veffer, thomas friedman, Tzipi Livni, Wind Jacket intercepts palestinian anti-tank missile, Yitzhak Shamir
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this hour has 9 minutes and 11 seconds
Part of the long and victorious march of image over substance? Arafat. still a celebrity. Still a locus for the communal lives of many. It is one of those incomprehensible and unexplainable side effects whereby a manufactured pop culture icon … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arafat poisoned, Arafat polonium poisoning, Ariel Sharon, Derek Hill radiological expert, Dov Weissglass, Edward Trelawny, ehud barak, Gamal Abdel Nasser KGB, General Aharon Zevi-Farkash, Guy Debord, Hilary Clinton Palestinian Authority, Hillary Clinton meets Abbas in Paris, Jean Genet, Jean Genet PLO, Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come, John Milton, Kofi Annan, Laurence Sterne, Leigh Hunt, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Salam Fayyad Palestinian Authority, Suha Arafat, William Wordsworth, Yuri Andropov
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