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Friday, April 28, 2017

How we got to today does actually matter - The Six Day War in context

You have joined this movie already in progress.

"Occupied" territories?
 "Palestinian Occupied Territories"  "Israeli Occupied West Bank" --

What is the prequel to this story?

This is the prequel...

Where were you in 1967?


Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Antisemitism, Trump and the Blame Game


We now know that an Israeli-American teenager made the bomb threats against US Jewish community centers. 

It struck me that the American Jewish community’s intramural bickering over anti-Semitism deserved a deeper look. 

I was curious why liberals needed to point to one kind of antisemitism while conservatives felt compelled to point in a different direction. 

Why —besides ideological rigidity — not go beyond the either/or?

And why is April 19th a day to be extra cautious...


All this led to the tour d'horizon below.

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