Tag Archives: gaza

Meir Kahane Is Dead

July 28, 2014 – 10:09 am

This weekend I petitioned passers-by at the General Fowler Triangle in Fort Greene. Blacks were eager to sign. White people shook their head, when asked to sign a petition asking Congress and President Obama to support a ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas’ resumption of its missile attacks reminds too many New Yorkers of 9/11 and the […]

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Green Everywhere Around Israel

November 19, 2012 – 9:40 pm

After WW2 hundreds of thousands of Jews sought refuge in Palestine joining the thousands of their religious kinsmen who had fled the pograms of Czarist Russia. This influx of refugees swelled the small British Mandate, so that by 1948 32% of the population of nearly two million people were Jewish, yet the UN resolution awarded […]

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Gaza Versis Goliath

November 19, 2012 – 7:05 pm

The Old Testament has great plots; Adam and Eve, Moses freeing his people, and the classic David versus Goliath. Israel has touted their relationship to the young shepherd downing the giant throughout the wars against their neighbors without ever mentioning the help of the West. They were never really alone, but few Arab states have […]

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Statehood / Falsehood

September 15, 2011 – 3:53 am

In 1947 the newly formed United Nations divided Palestine into several parts. The Zionist state received the greater slice of the pie and the Arabs fought several wars over the next six decades. None succeeded in either returning the lost land or granting statehood to Palestine. The UN is on the brink of holding a […]

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