Tag Archives: Meir Dagan

robbery assault and battery

Could you just leave Colonel Saunders alone. Extra fries with that? some slaw’? Apparently they ate all the fried chicken before torching the KFC shack in Tripoli. We all know the food sucks, but what we didn’t know was that … Continue reading

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film noir : back to the future

….A transitional period. But what follows? In the Arab world there is a crumbling of the always tenuous nation state system that existed, a sort of cobbled artificial entity not truly at home in a Western conceived habitat, yet now … Continue reading

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kings and mullahs of comedy

Did you ever hear the joke about the Iman and the Grand Mufti? Not likely.Loose lips mean loose and lost limbs in some markets. Arthur Godfey’s talent scouts would have found Nirvana.  Comic and predictable. Like a second rate comic … Continue reading

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good men in a storm?…raising canaan

It was believed that secular Zionism of the later nineteenth and early twentieth century was conceived to offer something distinct from the assimilationist currents that the Enlightenment and secular humanism was conceptually formulated to bring about. It was a ruse, … Continue reading

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bad taste blindfold test

A strange paradigm. Where there are more synagogues looted, desecrated and burned in the Land of Israel than in the entire diaspora combined. Where the polemics of anti-Judaism are considered a rite of passage and armchair sport for the loose-lipped … Continue reading

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migron: peace for land

The former head of the Mossad, Meir Dagan, says religious jews are the main problem in Israel, the head of the Meretz party, Zahava Galon,  uses the terminology “jew-boys” to describe religious supporters of the settler movement, and the head … Continue reading

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marduk chronicles

A society in transition. There are post-modern trends in Israeli society, but where they will lead and how one will arrive is an exercise in reading the grains of sand in the Negev for clues. At heart is can there … Continue reading

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forty shades on a sea of grey

Its an industry in itself. An entire substrata of entertainment, a part of the military industrial entertainment complex known as the Israel Protest industry which is something straight out of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle; the country serving as … Continue reading

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pouring salt on the dream: land of wine and roses

Radical Jewish culture. It seems to be the natural habitat of the near geniuses, the brilliant, the firebrands, the authentic rebels and the general shit disturbers motivated by a profound conviction. Come to think of it, Zionism has and will … Continue reading

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