I’ve recently read Lene Hansen’s Security As Practice. The book offers a methodological framework for post-structuralist discourse analysis.1 I must admit the book got me quite excited, in as much as one may use terms like “excitement” when discussing methodology, and I’m now considering revising (slightly) the goals of my thesis [...]
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[note: This article, belatedly published here, was originally written by Idan Landau in his Hebrew Blog "Lo Lamut Tipesh" (don't die stupid), it contains links to several sources. whenever possible I've provided english versions of the links. However, some of the links are for blogs, some for media articles with no available translation. Those links were [...] Can you spell Godwin, boys and girls? That’s right. Utterly and conveniently forgetting the officially sanctioned heroics of Raoul Wallenberg )not to mention the joys brought by thousands of Swedish female volunteers in Kibbutzim all over Israel, gracing lawns and pools with their blessed toplessness), top Israeli ministers, led by Foreign Minister Yvette Lieberman (yeah, no irony there), began screeching that “Just like in WW2, Sweden is standing by in the face of Anti-Semitism.” The papers played along with the hysteria campaign and both high-selling rags, Yediot and Ma’ariv, ran it on the front page in 10 foot block letters. Update: I dunno how I forgot this delicious bit of Irony, but Hamas just concluded its first full fledged battle against Islamic terrorism. Yeah, I said against. Some AQ flavored nutcase barricaded himself in a mosque in Rafah (southern tip of the Gaza Strip) and declared the Gaza Strip an Islamic Emirate, with strict sharia [...] 1. A few weeks ago, one of my friends asked me about the protests in Bil’in: Why do they continue? Haven’t the supreme court already ruled that the “separation wall” there should be taken down? Indeed, the Israeli court did acknowledge that the path of the wall near Bil’in was laid not based on security requirements [...] The military Captain1 declared loudly that the demonstration was “Illegal”, and asked the protesters to leave the scene. The protesters didn’t move. They have been demonstrating every weekend for years now, at the same place. There’s always an officer yelling that this is an illegal demonstration, and if they happen to get too close to [...] The mainstream reaction to the evidence presented by “Shovrim Shtika” was shown here. But it was not the only public response. Prominent politicians, media representatives, authors, academic figures and such – most of them recognized with what is called the “Zionist Left” (a term that describes most of Israel’s left – a [...] A claim that’s being heard over and over, made by Israeli spokespersons as well as by leaders of the free world, is that Israel has the right to defend itself. Of course, this isn’t true. Israel has an obligation to defend itself, or rather, its citizens and their sovereignty, just like any other country. It’s [...] |
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