Today’s One-Liner (#308)
We boast that we are the descendants of the Prophets, but we are really the descendants of the Jews who stoned the Prophets. –Amos Oz, in Robert Alter, Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
Category: Israel
Riveting
It’s good for me to be the citizen of a state in which there are eight and a half million prime ministers, eight and a half million prophets, and eight and a half million messiahs….
Calm, Cool, Collected: Coleman Hughes on the Gaza War
I’ve been getting acquainted with Coleman’s work the last few years. Listen to him for 3 minutes, and see if you are wanting to take in the next 14 minutes.
Today’s One-Liner (#223)
Perhaps the vast rise in antagonism toward Israel is a manifestation of what psychologists would call “projection.” –Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, 116
More Recent Reading
Dear L., Here is a list of some books I’ve read in the past few years. Given my pretty rigid leftist mindset, Simone Weil’s maxim was often on my mind in reading the following……
Our 65th Exchange on Israel and Palestine
A summer evening, 2008, we’re shmoozing at Coffee Cartel. All these years later, Nava, I remember you telling me at one point, totally matter-of-fact, no trace of irritation, “You know, you’re very one-sided.” I acknowledged,…
Something I Came across in Tablet
Consider, for a moment, the road traveled by many American Jews these past 15 months. One day, they were members in good standing of a virtuous, unimpeachable community of people who attended the finest schools,…
Something I Came across in The Spectator
The left knows that history is leaving them behind. That the momentum is no longer with their racial hucksterism, gender lunacy and cancel culture, but rather with those millions of good, working people who are…
Today’s One-Liner (#69)
“People ignore reality in favor of their bright ideas.” –Hannah Arendt to Karl Jaspers, 1965, quoted in Susie Linfield, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
Today’s One-Liner (#66)
When I know I can change things, I become as active as a cyclone. –Golda Meir, in Oriana Fallaci, Interviews with History and Conversations with Power