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Category Archives: Israel
Morning Awful: Romney’s Israeli Kulturkampf
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Share the post “Morning Awful: Romney’s Israeli Kulturkampf”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail This is the kind of nonsense that makes me want to drink Strychnine and handle snakes. Governor Romney showed up in Israel to talk about the deficiencies of Palestinian “culture:” Mitt Romney … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Israel, Kulturkampf, Mitt Romney, Palestine
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Culture Wars Have Consequences
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Share the post “Culture Wars Have Consequences”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Remember those Orthodox riots in Jerusalem two years ago? Submitted, an exercise in creative editing with a Haaretz article: More than 4,000 people say they will attend a march in Beit Shemesh Alexandria, … Continue reading
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Morgan Spurlock Finds the Original Culture War
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Share the post “Morgan Spurlock Finds the Original Culture War”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe Orthodox Jews shoving a documentarian around in this video are convinced their cause is righteous. They wage kulturkampf through a high birth rate, enforce epistemic closure in their community, and … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Glenn Beck in Israel
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Share the post “Morning Awful: Glenn Beck in Israel”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe crying clown has moved on from his late FOX Noise gig to take part in the anti-peace process, where he got heavy applause from Knesset culture warriors: [Beck] was serious when … Continue reading
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Israeli Audacity of Stopping Hope
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Share the post “Israeli Audacity of Stopping Hope”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI picked Montgomery, Alabama over being on this boat. Thankfully, CNN still does some international reporting and has a correspondent on board the Audacity of Hope. If you’ve been following Max Blumenthal’s excellent … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza Strip, Israel, Kulturkampf, nonviolence, Palestine
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Israel Isolated
Share the post “Israel Isolated”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail More than the optics have changed. Today’s meeting is between Israel and its last, most important friend; the context of their relationship has changed. This is going to make culture warriors lose their minds. In … Continue reading
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Saturday Afternoon TV: Hijacked History
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Share the post “Saturday Afternoon TV: Hijacked History”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI’d hoped to be able to include Ted Koppel’s piece at BBC America tonight, but it’s not available in embeddable format yet (note to BBC: why?). So here’s Ted Koppel in his WaPo … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, terrorism, The Day The Universe Changed
Tagged 9/11, airlines, buildings, hijacking, history, manhattan, memorial, new york, north tower, pilot, planes, September 11th, south tower, terrorist attack, world trace center
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A Thousand Words
Share the post “A Thousand Words”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSo this photo went out on the wire: And Reuters cropped it: Which Little Green Footballs’ Charles Johnson calls “proof” that (A) activists were armed with knives (B) Reuters is cropping photos for propaganda purposes, … Continue reading
Posted in Cognitive Dissonance, Israel, Palestine, photography, political framing
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Flotilla Of The Tennessee
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Share the post “Flotilla Of The Tennessee”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail As this posts, I am actually away from the computer floating on a river. A canoe flotilla will be gathering trash in Tennessee this weekend; great fun and camping will be experienced. I … Continue reading
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Flotilla Fallout
Share the post “Flotilla Fallout”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The United States is sticking with Israel, but at what price to Netenyahu? At FP, Abu Aardvark speaks: This crisis — and it is a crisis — is the fairly predictable outcome of the years … Continue reading
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Prepare to Repel Boarders
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Share the post “Prepare to Repel Boarders”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe national mythology of a plucky, lucky people determined in the face of overwhelming odds hasn’t been true of Israel since the 1970s, yet it still warps American reactions to events over there. Consider … Continue reading
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