Tag Archives: Hannah Arendt Israel

empathy notwithstanding: doomed, but to what?

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Dave

… 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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the real deal is rather unspectacular

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Dave

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table, And we are introduced to Goodness every day. Even in drawing-rooms among a crowd of faults; he has a name like Billy and is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Angela Merkel, BDS movement, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt Israel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Minerva Center for Human Rights, Omar Barghouti, Rivka Feldhay, Shavei.org Israel, W.H. Auden | Leave a comment

cops on the beat

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Dave

There is a certain plausible logic to expanding and exaggerating the implications and threats of radical Islam. The tragedy of 9-11 is being milked dry the way some have ingeniously invoked the holocaust to justify and serve as pretext certain … Continue reading →

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remolding the scattered

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Dave

There is no question there has been a fragmentation, a near collapse of the relationship between the ruling class of Israel, the secular establishment and all its state sanctioned apparatus of control , the bureaucracy, and the disparate elements that … Continue reading →