Tag Archives: shimon peres

messiah drill

Old time religion. Nothing like a fresh wave of messianic fever to stir the passions either in anticipation of the celebration that our sometimes brave, but generally old and tired world has reached its expiry date and something new is … Continue reading

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giving an inch to allah

Inch Allah. Its a game of inches. Do people who write and make films that glorify through the narrative of “humanization” aid and abet forces helping to destroy, stonewall, or indefinitely postpone the possibility for peace, instead turning the conflict … Continue reading

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divine sparks: mysterious unpredictability

What can you say about the Obama visit to Israel? There was a certain genius to the project, a bit of poetic imagination and a gravitation before an ineluctible pull of symbolic situations, mixed with a grasp of situations that … Continue reading

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looking for the divine spark

Secularism, nationhood as the ideological antithesis to the Holy Life in a Holy land, something created by Jews, as Zionism, in part a defiance and denial of God, a sort of Lucifer, fallen from praising in heaven that has organized … Continue reading

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bantustans, bikinis and burkas

….Looking for an equal whites amendment… The general thesis here is probably correct as expounded by Doug Saunders.. But the devil is in the details. In genreal one can conclude that Islam is a religion of peace. Salafist kooks and … Continue reading

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jonathan pollard: if the shoe fits sell it

Certainly one of the most complex cases is Jonathan Pollard. The crime was serious and the additional twist of using the information to bribe Soviet officials to let Russian Jews emigrate to Israel is insult to injury. Then there is … Continue reading

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morsi in de-nile

The E1 proposed development in Jerusalem East. E1= Morsi as M.C. scared…So Morsi said Jews are descendents of pigs and apes and by extension perhaps snakes and vampires since they are blood suckers as well. Perhaps his message can be … Continue reading

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under the bus: same old same old

Not that Barack Obama is entirely wrong about  about Netanyahu. But politics being what it is, Obama and his cohorts would have no compunction about meddling and massaging Israeli politics to act as midwife for the birth of some regime … Continue reading

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concessions: the concession stand is always open

Eyes on Zion.  Peace can never be achieved when only one side gives and the other merely receives. This does not nurture an attitude of respect for an adversary. On the contrary, weakness encourages an adversary to try to take … Continue reading

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short memories

It can be supposed that Shimon Peres was trying his hand at nice guy politics, but still, there is a reality gap of credulity at some point here. The Russians have been trying to make nice lately, but unfortunately there … Continue reading

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