Category: Israel

Something separate and not equal

Avrum Burg: Boycotts May Be Necessary to Achieve Israeli Democracy, If Israel Refuses Two-States It Should Expect One By Richard Silverstein, August 5, 2012   The NY Times has published a powerful broadside by Avrum Burg on behalf of Israeli democracy.  Burg, a former member of what might be called the country’s ruling élite, has …

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L’archipel de Palestine oreintale

Palestine’s Island Paradise, Now With a Word from its Creator By Frank Jacobs, March 30, 2009, 3:49 PM   The Bible contains at least two stories equating the aquatic with the amoral. As Red Sea pedestrians, Moses and the Israelites didn’t even get their sandals moist, while the Lord did some expert smiting on the pursuing …

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Sacrifices to the god Terminus

The Elephant in the Map Room By Frank Jacobs, August 7, 2012, 12:43 pm   My better half: “Are you sure about this? They’ll kill you.” Me: “Sure I’m sure. You can hardly expect me to write a series called Borderlines, about the strange lines that people draw to distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them,’  and then …

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Your tax dollars at work

Lambs to the settlers’ slaughter, screaming and unheard By Amira Hass, Aug.05, 2012   There is still a bruise under Ibrahim Bani Jaber’s left eye. The blows his brother Jawdat received to his right ear didn’t leave any marks, but they still make his head feel heavy. During our meeting at their home in the …

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An Anglo-Saxon heritage

Mitt Romney’s “culture” war By Erik Nielson, Sunday, Aug  5, 2012 07:00 AM CDT   In his latest overseas gaffe, Mitt Romney pontificated on the economic disparities between Israelis and Palestinians. Ignoring Israel’s role in perpetuating these differences, Romney instead offered a clear and simple explanation: “Culture makes all the difference.” These remarks, as well …

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Born through the loins of Ephraim

Mitt Romney: Son of Abraham? By Valerie Tarico, Saturday, Aug  4, 2012 08:01 AM CDT   While in Jerusalem Mitt Romney made an appearance at the Wailing Wall in a yarmulke. Was he just trying to pay tribute to Orthodox tradition or does he think he’s a Jew? Perhaps both. Conservative Christianity teaches “supersessionism,” the …

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Plant a prayer in a conspicuous crevice

The Pandering Game By Raouf J. Halaby, August 01, 2012   The season of Pandering is upon us, and by now the routine is all too familiar. While negative ads, fund raising efforts in all their forms, email and robo phone calls, misinformation, and pandering have become the norm, to be elected, aspiring candidates have …

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