Before former Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, he said something like this: “There will be no peace in the Middle East until Palestine does to its terrorists what we have done to ours.”
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Were there Terrorists on the Altalena?
Posted in Military
Tagged palestine, israel, altalena ffair, idf, yitzhak rabin, irgun, terrorist, revolutionary war, david ben-gurion
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Sleepless from Seattle: Being Your Own Captive Audience
Several people had already told me as much, but it was only about a few hours into the flight that the real insanity of this trip really dawned on me. As far as I know, I am going to be spending more time on the way to the airport, back from the airport, and on the airplane than I will be spending at the actual place I am visiting. This seems like madness.
Taking the Mechanism Out of Man
In 1931, George Orwell wrote a magnificent essay simply entitled, “A Hanging.” That piece is a hauntingly simple story of a prison execution. There is no fantasy in the dying and we are made real and substantial witnesses.
Posted in Prison
Tagged death penalty, hangman, noose, george orwell, witness, writing, execution
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Lying for Jewish Sex
An Arab man had consensual, premarital, sex with a Jewish woman. He told her he was Jewish in order to get into her pants. The woman believed the lie.
