navel-gazing while Rome burns

by on January 24, 2009 4

I don't understand how anyone can write a long article about a Jewish monologuist doing a long piece on Jewish identity, in January 2009, with a picture of Golda Meir as one of his touchstones, and hte usual anguish about his place in American society, without bringing up Israel and the Gaza massacres. It's like this Dialogue book last year called The Faith Between Us by a Jew and a Catholic. I don't think they talk about pedophilia or occupation for one second.                        (Phil Weiss, with thanks to Mohammad)

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Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics

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  1. Rowan Berkeley says:
    January 24, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    We are supposed to find all the bitter convolutions of "jewish identity" fascinating, Phil, we nonjews, because after all we don't have such complex, finely-tuned personalities as you do.

  2. Mohammad says:
    January 24, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    It is astonishing that so many articles about "jewish Identity" ends up giving the readers so little about that identity. Essentially this article is not about jewish identity, but rather about how jews talk about that identity.

    Golda Meir's name and image is an abstract sign symbolizing the supposedly inseparable link between Israel and the Jewish identity. Mentioning of the Golda Meir is the minimum commentary about Gaza in the piece.

  3. citizen says:
    January 24, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    Golda Meir, now there's a beauty, inside and out. A USA patriot of the first quality.

  4. Rowan Berkeley says:
    January 25, 2009 at 1:26 am

    great paste-up of Golda as Liberty, here:

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