From Sinai to the two-state solution: the long reach of Jewish trauma
People forget that the two-state solution was a Jewish idea. Precisely for that reason it has never worked and never will work. If the...
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Shabbtai
- Jan 26, 2017
- 6 min
Ganging up on Israel: how to kill not only the people of the book, but the book itself
The nations of the world continue to gang up on Israel. They prefer, for some deluded reasons of their own, to reward Palestinian...
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Shabbtai
- Jan 25, 2017
- 7 min
The idiot’s question: can Israel be Jewish and democratic?
In justifying the United States’ refusal to veto the recent UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in Judea and...
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Shabbtai
- Jan 10, 2017
- 6 min
Ezekiel’s stick (2): the meaning of national unity
The Torah portion Vayigash, for which Ezekiel’s parable of the two sticks become one is the haftorah, narrates Judah’s magnificent and...
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Shabbtai
- Jan 9, 2017
- 5 min
Ezekiel’s stick: putting an end to the Jewish odyssey
In the haftorah last Shabbat, the biblical narrative read in correspondence with the Torah text of Vayigash, God’s word came to Ezekiel...
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Shabbtai
- Nov 22, 2016
- 7 min
The nation state and why the Palestinians never should and never will have one
The nation state is a modern invention. Swaths of territory form a country which belongs not to the king but to the people. The bond...
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Shabbtai
- Nov 15, 2016
- 6 min
A brief history of sociology
In the old days, when Aristotle was around, philosophy embraced science; and the gods, as Homer put it, though gods, were conspicuous....
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Shabbtai
- Nov 8, 2016
- 10 min
Does Israel have any allies?
The answer to that question is no. But then, did not Balaam thus prophesize when he said the Israelites are a people that shall dwell...
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Shabbtai
- Oct 7, 2016
- 19 min
The end of liberalism?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, wrote Dickens. He may as well have been writing about today. How far have we...
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Shabbtai
- Aug 31, 2016
- 6 min
Freeloading off the global welfare state
Syrian doctors from Aleppo recently called on US President Obama to stop Russian air strikes on the city. It was not so long ago that...
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Shabbtai
- Aug 3, 2016
- 5 min
Sexual Depravity and Muslim Terror
A French government commission of inquiry about the Muslim terror attacks on the Bataclan Theater in Paris last November heard testimony...
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Shabbtai
- Aug 2, 2016
- 3 min
While Ankara burns Washington fiddles...and condemns Israel
There may or may not have been a coup in Turkey engineered by its president. It collapsed rather quickly for a coup and was followed even...
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Shabbtai
- Jul 21, 2016
- 5 min
The road to Nice went through Jerusalem
For a year now Palestinians have been killing Israeli civilians at random – knifing them, shooting them, driving cars into them,...
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Shabbtai
- Jul 12, 2016
- 4 min
What difference does it make?
So asked then Secretary of State Clinton when asked by a Senate Committee to explain her response to the attack on the American consulate...
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Shabbtai
- Jul 8, 2016
- 1 min
Welcome to my Blog!
Welcome to my blog! Here you will find all kinds of goodies. Notifications of my weekly Torah commentary (Drash); announcements of what...
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