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Outrage on Facebook

January 11, 2009 – 5:17 pm

My good friend Jorge has been inciting comments on facebook with the publication of non-Israeli articles about the Zionists’ incursion into the Gaza Strip Concentration camp. Tanks versus bullets. f-16s versus crude missiles. Death and destruction over a land tortured by politics. I know it’s the NFL play-offs but the lack of concern for the […]

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Free Palestine

December 28, 2008 – 9:04 pm

The bombing continues without abatement and everyone in the world condemns Israel except for the USA and Great Britain. I walked out of the Plaza Hotel this evening and Hannukkah celebrants were standing in Tecumseh Sherman Plaza for the lighting of the giant menorrah. The Mitvah Tank passed on 60th Street. Young children shouting out […]

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Israel’s 60th Anniversary

May 9, 2008 – 2:26 pm

The 1947 population of Palestine was about 70% Arab and 30% Jewish refugees and settlers. The UN voted to partition the ex-Ottoman province between the two groups 50/50. Neither side was too happy with the split and fighting escalated to a full-blown war ending with the defeat of the Palestinean ie the Nakba or defeat. […]

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