Tag Archives: Jeffrey Goldberg

holy land tour: shatterproof windshield required

The president’s visit to the holy land. Even a vague and ambiguous agenda is news in itself. Anything with Israel,  in and of itself, is news. Two meteors colliding, one representing religious absolutism the other being the equally destructive path … Continue reading

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golan heights and bottoms: grand designs

New cover versions of an old song. Through terror and clamor they can win concessions, and that the Israelis are willing to sacrifice their security bit by bit to win temporary calm. From time to time there is an ebb, … Continue reading

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drunk with intellectual passion

Everyone has a Golden Calf inside of them, the need of worshipping and staying attached to forms, to feed the form as it were. And the difference between building something more durable and divine as opposed to allowing these forms … Continue reading

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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

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phantom film maker

It turns out slippery Sam the shock doc maker may not be who he purports to be. That is, an American-Israeli who put together “The Innocence of Muslims” for a a claimed mere $7 million, funded by “a hundred jews”.  … Continue reading

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thin red lines: the millionaires

Shower the people. Israel’s Netanyahu is now enmeshed in the psychology of red lines. Are these lines in the geometric mosaic of Islam or his own slash and crash style of scribble? In any event, the logic is that given … Continue reading

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read their lips: talkin’ shop at solomon’s stables

…“Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” (Statement to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., 1957) ….“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for … Continue reading

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romney care: lamentations on the ill-timed pursuit

Face it, people like to complain. Give them a mic, a keyboard or a public forum and the discontent pours out; a lamentation worthy of the Western Wall magnitude. Add to that the Jewish holidayof Tisha B’Av which remembers the … Continue reading

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GRINGO DOGS: Pay Dearly for My Beautiful Muchacha

There are  no lack of visitors to Cuba from rich countries, including a disproportionate number from Britain and Canada who believe they have encountered a true alternative to capitalist democracy. Why?  It seems to be a way of keeping alive … Continue reading

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