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run for cover

Run for cover. Coincidental timing with an Israeli election, with Palestinian statehood bid, and with the typical parrying and sparring between the more fundamentalist Hamas and Fatah as king of the roost and the hearts and minds of Palestinians by … Continue reading

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you ain’t goin’ nowhere

To exhume or not exhume? This could go on for years. At some point there has to be money changing hands and legal issues of who is the trustee of the Arafat estate and who doles out the lucre to … Continue reading

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where’s that fire?

Going back over a thousand years ago, no less a figure than Maimonides remarked on the Jewish tendency to denial, a characteristic, he asserted that would only hasten their destruction. Although the context for Maimonides consternation was based on his … Continue reading

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hayseeds go back to the country

To everything there is a season. And a reason? Its not easy to get at the root causes of Arab world anti-Westernism. it does not seem like a pure hate, but rather the antagonism of the love-hate relationship, like intense … Continue reading

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string game

We seem to always tragically misapply the lessons of the past. From Munich, to Vietnam, to Iraq to the Palestinians, to Iran. Nothing could be more naive than the notion that a fixed record of the past exists. History is … Continue reading

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chill out: religion doesn’t grow on trees

Judith Butler is a major critic of the state of Israel. Like many in left, far left academia, they occupy a higher moral ground than the common and mortal, the unwashed who may actually have to do some real work … 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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where the streets have no name

There is sanctity in the value of human life. Or so the expression goes. Every life is worth the world. But, there are alot of exceptions, asteriks, and legal loopholes and hoops to jump through. So, what happens when hierarchies, … Continue reading

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