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everybody knows : too long in exile

Everybody Knows. As Palestine steps up to the plate with a request, a demand to be granted statehood. Like the story Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer, we know the game is fixed, and Casey will whiff. Is this … Continue reading

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greetings on this day

A remnant people trying to tailor a fine suit out of rags. The solitary wanderer in his brand name estate. The concept of Judaism rests as an affirmation of the Diaspora and a rejection, in principle of Zionism, which can … Continue reading

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the right must leave: no dawdling. no loitering.

State of exception. Land of confusion. It can be plausibly be asserted  that Zionism has been intertwined in racial identity issues since its modern incarnation that began before Herzl. The hierarchy and pecking order, the old tropes of status and … Continue reading

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if i forget thee

Lebensraum!A policy based on expansion, usurpation, of the living space of the other to make way for a growing race. Like the Third Reich, the basic intention of Israeli policy. By any other name it is ethnic cleansing. A resettling. … Continue reading

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the one after 193

Not something from the back of a cereal box. A real country. Or some neutered and coiffed Bantustan experiment with nifty uniforms and fan-far parades. Real borders and a real economy. Or a box within a box and the welfare … Continue reading

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wayfaring: complicity with the wanderer

Is man a wayfarer? A wanderer between two worlds? His destiny that of an outsider, eve an outlaw to the laws of nature; man as  wayfarer, restless and unable to settle and establish roots . He reaches a fork in … 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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forty and four strong winds

Its been forty-four years since the termination of the Six-Day War; with who started what and did what to whom and when among the most contested piece of history over the most contested piece of land in the history of … Continue reading

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