Walled in by Myth and Deceit
Ben Gurion “…realized that the holy book could be made into a secular national text, serve as a central repository of ancient collective imagery, help forge the hundreds of thousands of new immigrants...
View ArticleThe Unstated Script of the Wiesel Open Letter to President Obama
Earlier this month, the Wiesel Foundation for Humanity published, as an advertisement, an open letter to the President of the United States and the leaders of France, Russia, Britain and Germany, a...
View ArticleA Nation Born in Deception
As Israel attempts today to gloss over the reality of its birth 62 years ago with a sweeping public relations campaign extolling the miraculous “resurrection” of ancient Zion in contemporary times, a...
View ArticleRemembering the Madness and Mayhem of McCarthyism: A Primer for Israel
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley: A Road Map to Peace...
Let me introduce myself lest you discard a letter from someone you do not know. I am a citizen of this nation having lasted beyond the biblical three score and ten with an ancestry that can be traced...
View ArticleLessons Learned in the Streets of Cairo
Simple description of observable reality does nothing more than capture the ‘accidents’ that identify the particularity of something, not convey the greater universal truths, the ideal form, that lies...
View ArticleSinning against Zionism: Traitor to Country
Hell is where many false commitments must be unlearned. — Ricardo J. Quinones, Dante Alighieri Richard Goldstone’s journey from Justice to Sinner represents the spiritual act of dying in the Zionist...
View ArticleYet another War for Israel
Men use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. — Voltaire, Dialogue XIV, Le Chapon et la Poularde Voltaire’s wit often illuminates truth. Consider this...
View ArticleIn Defense of Günter Grass
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has...
View ArticleSins of Our Fathers
We dance round in a ring and suppose But the secret sits in the middle and knows. — Robert Frost Victors’ celebrations harbor shadows that lurk in the soul as revelers dance in remembrance, burying in...
View ArticleUniversalism and Individualism versus Tribalism
As it looks now, more than half the members of the 19th Knesset will belong to the extreme right and beyond, at least a dozen of them honest to goodness fascists. — Uri Avnery, “Israel’s Elections and...
View ArticleZion — the Promised Land — Too Little, Too Late
Pour out thy wrath upon the Gentiles (Goyim) that have not known thee. — Psalm 79:6 It occurred to me as I was rereading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s unfinished novel, Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret, that the good...
View ArticleLook at the World from Behind the Wall
Put yourself in their shoes. Look at the world through their eyes. It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own. Living their entire lives with the presence of a...
View ArticleTo Throw or Not to Throw a Stone
A debate rages in Israel today on the truth of Amira Hass’s words “Throwing a stone is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of...
View ArticleThe Truth Tellers Lament in a Time of Darkness
When you survey the wreckage of the American imperium, it’s very easy to become overwhelmed by darkness of the times, submerged in the remorseless riptide of blood and official violence. But even...
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A Wall for a Wall: Mirroring Racism
Now that our President has handed over the resolution of the Syrian debacle to the United Nations, perhaps justice demands that he hand over resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to that...
View ArticleAriel Sharon’s Descent into Death
For eight years, Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of the State of Israel from 2000-2006, has been kept alive, though he has been in a comatose state, unable to talk or communicate naturally. The...
View ArticleThe Do Nothing Peace Machine: Why Zionism Negates Peace
In 2010 I edited The Plight of the Palestinians: A Long History of Destruction, a collection of articles by world renowned writers who unveil the genocide taking place in Palestine by the occupying...
View ArticleThe Goal of the BDS Movement Is Justice
Justice and legitimacy are one and inexorably linked to the Charters and Declarations of the United Nations. This is a truth that Michael J. Rosenberg does not address as he castigates the supporters...
View ArticleA History Lesson: What ISIS Learned from Irgun
When the history of the first half of this (20th) century comes to be written – properly written – it will be acknowledged the most stupid and brutal in the history of civilization. — Sir Thomas...
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