Watching the news about the Bhutto assassination, I am reminded what a poor job our media does of covering the news (see this post). But I am not one to blame the messenger. It is our individual responsibility to learn more about any given topic and use that knowledge to form our own judgements.
Not too [...]
Continue reading about Feature: The Clash of Fundamentalisms
The second installment of the article I began here.
Yesterday evening I had a conversation with Asaf about Purim, genocide and hate. That inspired me to write what follows. It got a bit long, so I am breaking it up into several parts.
The Orthodox Anarchist (don’t ask, just visit the site) brings an excellent video about Jewish terrorists, created by PBS Frontline.
Many years ago, not long after Rabin’s assassination, I was sitting in my town’s synagogue on a Shabbat (Saturday) morning. At the time there was a great deal of controversy whether or not Yigal Amir had received from Settler rabbis a religious stamp of approval for his murderous act. The halachic (Jewish law) basis for [...]
Today in my inbox I got one of those emails that make the rounds to shore up the faithful. It was typical self-righteous crap, whose basic argument boils down to; “Arabs bad, Jews good.” One of the main self-righteous themes that runs through these types of screeds, is that Palestinian insurgents deliberately kill civilians while [...]
A reader Brendon, from Australia, asked my opinion about a Jewish website, which brought evidence that the Palestinians are indocrinating their children in a cult of death and martyrdom. There are many Jewish sites like these, and they are obviously being used as propaganda tools .
I have covered this topic in the past. However, what [...]
Starting from Benny Morris’ diatribe, Kathleen Christison analyzes how many Jews deal with the Israel/Palestine conflict. Her analysis leads me to some thoughts of my own.
“Halper writes that as one of the few Israelis who have ever even been to Palestine, he finds it ‘impossible to convey to my own people, my own neighbors (good [...]
Continue reading about Feature: These are the Generations of Mankind
Another excellent article from the Guardian. Best guide to the Israeli political “left” I’ve seen written in English.
“The left in Israel always was the preserve of the European elite. Socialism did not grow out of the socio-economic problems of a local working class, but was transferred, along with Bauhaus, Chopin and Brahms, as part of [...]
My latest rant.