Nov 08 2008
This afternoon I finished reading Susan Nathan’s “The other side of Israel: my journey across the Jewish-Arab divide” today (2005, ISBN 0-385-51456-5). The links below are from the back of the book. Equally interesting, near the end of the book, was this quote from 1930: “It would have seemed more sensible to me to establish a Jewish homeland …
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Aug 24 2008
For me, this is probably the work that got the Israeli PR thinkers to seeing the possibilities for a beautiful friendship between Zionism and fundamentalism: Hal Lindsey’s 1970 “The Late, Great Planet Earth.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Great_Planet_Earth I remember hearing about this while we were still in high school, and wondering what in the hell kind of foolishness …
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Aug 24 2008
There is another, deeper, emotional/spiritual layer to this entire problem. I used to try to explain it but it falls on secular ears, and is largely ignored as insignificant. It is anything but, and anyone who cares about justice and dignity in the Middle East would do well to try to understand it better. Back in …
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Aug 20 2008
What do we really cherish? America absolves itself the same way a smoker convinces himself he’ll never get cancer. In both cases, there is plenty of available information from which the truth of the matter can be gleaned, but that requires more introspection than most of us are willing to endure. Less than a minute …
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Jul 10 2008
Ms. Gassaway, I had hoped the rabbi’s recent rant would be disregarded by your readers as the specious partisan pandering it obviously is to anyone who understands even the smallest bits of Middle Eastern history and contemporary realities “over there.” However, given that more than a week has passed, and now today’s follow-on huzzahs by …
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Jun 08 2008
Dear Janna, Perhaps the answer is to out-market the vision of what is possible vs. the vision of those things feared or coveted. Somehow, we’ve got to convince people that the alternative to fear and avoidance of insecurity is better than the status quo. When I opined earlier about my Levantine dream, I forgot to …
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May 13 2008
A friend of mine just sent me an interesting article by Ramzy Baroud, about Johns Hagee and McCain: http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=13720 Here’s the first paragraph from Baroud’s article: A memorable quote in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) still carries a wealth of relevance. He writes, “They own the [holy] land, just the mere land, and that’s …
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