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Ig Noble Prize

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The world is eagerly awaiting this year’s decision of Oslo’s Peace Nobel Prize Committee, chaired by Norway’s former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland. While last year’s choice, Chinese human rights activist, literary critic, writer, and academic, dissident Liu Xiaobo was very much okay (not for his fellow countrymen, of course), the year before, the group around Jagland [...]

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Palestine Demilitarized

Posted in Israel, Palestine, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

    When Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got standing ovations in almost gone-wild U.S. Congress last night, one might actually wonder what he actually meant by proposing his Two State solution by stating, “So it is therefore absolutely vital for Israel’s security that a Palestinian state be fully demilitarized. And it is vital that [...]

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Obama’s New Middle East

Posted in Middle East, USA, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

How President Obama would address, in his speech on recent developments in the Middle East, the three key players, which have not participated in any constructive way in what is called the Arab Uprising, was in fact quite interesting. First Iran. Well, the current power struggle between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his rapidly shrinking support [...]

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The Unholy Land

Posted in Israel, Palestine, tagged , , , on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

  Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has reportedly surprised his Premier Benjamin Netanyahu when briefing him about his own map of Palestine he had drawn in provisional borders. Apparently, Lieberman believes that we believe that once a state has been provisionally been established one might negotiate further adjustments (or not). He was well advised not [...]

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Two States Are Not a Solution

Posted in Book Review, Israel, Palestine, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »

When recently having read, with growing admiration, Shlomo Sand’s sober and, in essence, scientific analysis of ‘The Invention of the Jewish People,’ in which he reduces Jewish, largely ethnocentric, nationalism, or Zionism, to a great misconception and anachronism, I became rather worried when getting to his last and apparently most important chapter, ‘The Distinctions: Identity [...]

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