zionism

The Annexation Endgame

י״ז באלול ה׳תש״ע (Friday 27 August 2010)

IHTG asked what I thought about this article. He wrote: My feeling is that the settlers with their sense of community and extremely high birthrates find it easier to imagine surviving in a multi-ethnic society along with Arabs, in a sort of mini-Austro-Hungary, with themselves as the Austrians. For the rest of us, it could [...]

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Israel & Turkey

י״ד באלול ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 24 August 2010)

Whenever I think about Israel’s relationship with Turkey, I think of Jabotinsky‘s book Taryag Millim: An Introduction to Spoken Hebrew (In Latin Characters). Though he was careful to say that he wasn’t using the book to advocate for a Latinized letter system for Hebrew like Mustafa Kemal did with Turkish, the book reflects an interesting [...]

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What is a Jew?

י״ד באב ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 25 July 2010)

In response to my post on 9 Av, Will S. asked why non-religious Jews choose to remain Jewish by choice: Is it just shared experience, and/or sense of high degree of persecution by outsiders, that inculcates the sense of “we’re a people” in secularist Jews, making them want to live amongst their own rather than [...]

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Jewish Monarchy in Israel

כ״ה בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 7 July 2010)

Will S. asked these questions: I’m Canadian, and an ardent monarchist myself; to me, it ties in with my patriotism, and my faith as a Christian (of the Protestant variety), and my disposition as a Canadian. Monarchy, though, is always at least outwardly religious; whether the Christian monarchs of Europe, or the Islamic kingdoms like [...]

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Helen Thomas

כ״ז בסיון ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 9 June 2010)

I’m a Jew and a Zionist (in some sense of the term), but that doesn’t mean I can’t get along with people who dislike Jews and Zionists. In my experience, a person’s feelings and opinions about Jews and Israel don’t correlate strongly to any positive or negative character traits, and they don’t tend to indicate [...]

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JFS and Racial Discrimination

ב׳ בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 19 December 2009)

As a university student in America, I once read an article posing the question: When did the modern era in Jewish history begin? The author’s answer was to point out that the answer depends on who answers the question. A Zionist might say, for example, that modern Jewish history began in 1789 with the rise [...]

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