Meir Kahane was shot to death in New York. He was a very controversial figure, even in Israel. I once served on a committee with him, but this is not about him, it is about a plain statement to the non-Jewish world about how it feels to *be* Jewish on your planet. We are damned for being communists by capitalists, by capitalists for being communists, and by everybody for being Jewish nationalists.
BTW, I am not a neocon, I oppose the Iraq War and have from the beginning. But I hesitate to be an activist, because so much of the Iraq antiwar movement - unlike the Viet-Name era movement, links anti Jewish ideas (disguised as anti-Israeli as if Jewish nationalism were not integral to Jewishness) with anti war ideas, and I feel lending support to one will be seen as the other.
Maybe that's why *this* antiwar movement has been so ineffective in the streets. The Jews, bulwarks of progressive movements in America, for the most part stayed home. There is a lesson here.
I am an eclectic person with a decidedly different take on just about everything. I am apt to discuss everything from today's politics to astrophysics to ghosts in the machine (yours, mine, ours). My posts are sometimes personal stuff, sometimes special interests, reviews of books I've read or films I've seen or places I've been, sometimes they are biting editorial opinion. Sometimes poetry. Sometimes select reprints. Subject matter? Read and find out. That, even I can't predict.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Open Letter to the World (improved narration)
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