Tag Archives: Zionism

annie oakley: happiness is a warm gun?

From a piece in the New York Times on a woman’s account of her experience with religious men in the Israel Defense Forces; its the kind of pieces the NYT specializes in. Demonizing and creating an “other” and then building … Continue reading

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going rogue

The language of violence. A poetry of nihilism?  “When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.” – Elie Weisel Violence … 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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tin drum solo: private concert

Trivialities and profound truths. This spit and spat match with Gunter Grass can be seen as using Israel and Jews as a pretext for his own bashing of a new Germany, one remarkably different than his own version, which has … Continue reading

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every grain of sand

Picasso called his painting, “the sum of destructions”, Marcel Duchamp went further into conceptual form with the ready-made, banal objects such as urinals converted into works of art. This was the so called “shock of the new” the beginning of … Continue reading

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footprints in the desert sand: eternal dust

A divine foundation for nature. Even human nature. The whole thing would probably be unintelligible to alien beings and the cold reason of modern rationalism, scientific inquiry that tends to fudge the facts, cannot really explain it. So, there must … Continue reading

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apartheid among them

There is a certain large, yawning chasm that exists between Judaism and Zionism. There has been this buzzword around called “religious zionism” which is an oxymoron and makes no sense. But why should anything make sense? A dyed-in-the-wool communist like … Continue reading

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