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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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