Ah, the crazy is growing fast and furious on the ground, and your Intrepid Traveler has but to stoop ever so slightly to pick both hands full. This is the Weekend Holyland Update, flight 11-20-09, taking off from the fields of suicidal nationalism and passing through the lands of political shenanigans (exclusive scoop there), a [...]
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My friend Rod wrote at length against a binational solution to the Jewish-Palestinian conundrum. He does not so much oppose the idea of binationalism, but rather has serious doubts about the availability of a route to binational salvation that does not travel through some horrendous gutters. I disagree with him. A route to binationalism does [...] On the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, some speak of a bi-national state as the optimal solution. In their vision, they see Israel-Palestine as a sort of Belgium or, to a lesser extent, Canada- a country where Jews and Palestinians co-exist under one democracy and lead their lives together happily and peacefully. Just recently the Palestinian chief [...] Welcome one and all aboard the Weekend Holyland Update, Improv Version Flight 111609, taking off from sunny San Diego, touching down in sunnier Arizona and various NFL points east, while simultaneously throwing out some of the current stuff happening in points way east, like off the compass east. You know the maps where foreign parts [...] Welcome aboard the slightly belated Weekend Holiday Update, flight 111009, touring the regions of “Irony is deadistan”, “grovelland”, the village of “sweet symbolism”, the settlement of “insanity and denial” and the stadiums of escapist dreams. Please fasten your seatbelts as your regular pilot, aided by the visiting Official Brother of WHU, takes off: The Israeli government [...] Originally I’ve intended to write a response to Dotan’s post and wittily call it “Why I Don’t Go”. But then I realized I agreed with what he wrote, and that his reasons for going to the rally are the same reasons that prevent me from going. What makes Dotan feel like he needs to be [...] |
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