Tag Archives: Theodor Herzl

dreyfus was a goner

Why we cannot forget Dreyfus… …By having Du Paty deliver his memorandum at the last minute in a semi-clendestine way, and by enjoining the court to keep its contents secret, Gen. Auguste Mercier deprived the defense of its legal right … Continue reading

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throw someone under the bus, not just anyone

“Harold  dear, (Sir Harold  MacMichael) there’s a nice looking man at the door wanting to see you. presentable. he says he knows Lord Moyne, …and by the way, he’s holding a gun. A rather large one. Imagine, in our neighborhood,” … Continue reading

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normal: what them worry?

Stiff necked? For sure. The perils of Pauline in the desert is clear evidence of that, an unruly nature not easily buying into the coach’s plans for victory and redemption,perhaps setting the seeds for the later exile. But today is … Continue reading

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willingly the ghetto: knowledge acquired in childhood

Eastside and Westside story. Two different worlds. Zionism in the form of Herzl was really the creation of white liberal social democratic thinking. A conjunction of the Enlightenment connected to a Jewish identity that could be refashioned in the age … Continue reading

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none was too many

They really didn’t want them. In terms of “positive and useful human material” they were wanting. They were a remnant of a remant, one with frayed fibers, holes and separating at the seams. The dregs of the dregs. Israel really … Continue reading

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in the blink of an eye

As the first rays of the morning sun. Like Howard Zinn made a career out of destroying or at least exposing America’s founding myths as being blatant lies founded on a contrived aegis of moral rectitude, wisdom and a few … Continue reading

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too solitudes: two little too late

A Bottle in the Sea of Gaza. Advertised as a pacifist message of hope and reconciliation is based on the two solitudes premise, ostensibly in the film that posits the secular perspective of bridging societies uniting them in the process … Continue reading

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when my ship comes in

Identity crisis. Crisis what Crisis? The debate inside Israel over these issues is passionate and ongoing, but perhaps not too profound. It stays in the comfort zone,  preventing an articulation of a coherent definition of its own identity. If the … Continue reading

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sweeping the sand from the golden door

We have just passed the forty-forth anniversary of the Six Day War. In part, a war based on certain reclamation myths and Jewish revisionism that appropriates necessary ingredients form the bible into the mythological recipe of a national homeland.  Somewhat … Continue reading

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rothschild & buber: real life is encounters with the 133 year bond

its an incongruous combination that two men so patently different should somehow be connected inextricably to the Jewish people and a jewish homeland. On the one hand, Baron Edmond de Rothschild feared zionism, had an anathema for democracy, and became, … Continue reading

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