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Why I won’t give up Yom Ha-A

Submitted by mobius on Fri, 2008-05-09 18:04. ::

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Remember when Yom Ha-atzma’ut used to be easy?Nowadays it seems like you’ve got three choices..You can follow our co-blogger Chorus of Apes and go all Nakbaֲ on us. ֲ You can go all “neo-Zionist” instead and lose yourself in congratulatory paroxysms of pride and militaristic extremism. See here for example. Or finally,ֲ you can waffle and prevaricate between the [...]
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Israel’s Arabs

Submitted by mobius on Thu, 2008-05-08 21:45. ::

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NYTimes posts a video that needs to be seen by everyone this nakba/independence day. As the video makes clear, today marks independence for some, and the beginning of a long nightmare for others. I fear the contradictions of zionism mean we will never solve this problem.
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Two Ruminations on May Day & Yom ha-Shoah

Submitted by mobius on Fri, 2008-05-02 05:17. ::

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Check these pieces out, because it’s Yom ha-Shoah, and it’s May Day, and maybe your thoughts, hands, and memories are starting to get all a-jumbled.Lawrence Bush staggers through every emotion I’ve ever felt about Yom ha-Shoah. 10 paragraphs of hope, despair, resolve, empathy, and what-ifs. The series of realizations, like descending stairs, when you see [...]
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Jewish Alaskan Noir? Woo!

Submitted by mobius on Fri, 2008-05-02 04:40. ::

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Get out your fedoras, everyone, here’s some news:Michael Chabon’s best-selling 2007 book, “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” will be made into a film by the Coen brothers. Can’t wait to see what they do with this; just please, guys, no hair mousse in this one will ya?But I can’t wait for the tefillin jokes! [...]
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The H in Apartheid

Submitted by mobius on Wed, 2008-04-30 23:56. :: | |

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Guest Post from Jacob RosenblumBetween 1 and 2 am on Tuesday, April 29, I stood guard at an orphanage run by the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron. An order for closure was put on the orphanage, to go into effect yesterday; the military has visited the site three times already, and have said that anyone [...]
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Israel blows ceasefire deal

Submitted by mobius on Mon, 2008-04-28 22:06. ::

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Israel is proving that it’s never going to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity as I feared before. Israel blew off an offer by Hamas to halt rocketfire. And whether or not you like Carter, he’s also managed to extract negotiable terms from Hamas during his much-maligned meeting, including a ceasefire and a letter from [...]
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