One of the saddest aspects of Israel’s occupation and militarization has to do with the the huge role arm sales now play in the Israeli economy. It wasn’t always this way, and someday I hope to write a longer piece on the topic and my own peripheral involvement in this area. Besides the morally despicable [...]
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My favorite economist and commentator puts the Madoff scandal in the proper perspective.
The war in Yugoslavia was a turning point in the human rights movement. Appalled by the atrocities they saw, many Western war correspondents advocated for military intervention by the US and the EU. The rallying cry was “how can we stand by and let another Holocaust happen?” Eventually (not soon enough for what would soon be known as the [...]
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Yesterday while reading AMNY I saw an article about Kosovo. As with the so-called “Cedar Revolution” and “Orange Revolution” there was the obligatory picture of a pretty girl sitting on someone’s shoulders and waving a flag. Given the parallels my skeptical nature kicked in. While knowing very little about the issue, I began to wonder [...]
“People do bad things because they believe there isn’t enough to go around.” Sadly, this is a gross over-simplification. I speak from both personal experience, which has been reinforced by my readings of history. When I moved to Israel 19 years ago, it was a developing country, barely out of third world status. The first [...]