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gte

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• Grahams ain't Jewish
  • gte September 7, 2009 at 5:10 pm with 1 replies

    Katharine Graham's biography, Personal Story, has many mentions of her Jewish identity (or non-identity, if you wish) and how it affected different aspects of her life. My favorite part of the book is her description of the printer's strike in the 1970s, which I realize is totally unrelated to this thread.
    link to amazon.com

• Huckabee defies Obama
  • gte August 17, 2009 at 9:27 am

    I find one very good reason to cheer this report: Gov. Hucakabee's honest endorsement of the idea of Greater Israel and all that goes with it. According to Huckabee, all of the West Bank *is* Israel, there should be no Palestinian state in the area, and Palestinians living there should either leave or be prepared to be second-class citizens of Israel, similar to what African Americans experienced in the United States. I disagree with this vision but I genuinely appreciate that Gov. Huckabee is not going to force me into a through the looking class conversation in which settlements aren't a problem for the two-state solution and so forth (a la Elliott Abrams & Charles Krauthammer).

• Where does poppy anthem, 'Allah, Allah, Allah' go that 'What if God was one of us?' didn't?
  • gte August 10, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    This discussion about pop music and the Muslim world settles it, tonight I'm finally going to get around to reading Mark LeVine's _Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam_
    link to nytimes.com
    link to meaning.org

• In the beloved Old Country, a Jew has visions of her homeland
  • gte August 11, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    Everyone interested in Poland and the creation of Israel will want to see the final part of Robert Fisk's outstanding documentary The Road to Palestine. The entire documentary is worth watching, but it's the ending which provides a Polish connection and which gives the documentary a finish that feels like a punch in the gut.
    link to youtube.com

  • gte August 9, 2009 at 10:31 am

    A lovely, thoughtful, and provocative (in the best kind of way) post. Thank you for sharing. -gte

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