Loewenstein: Israel should be tried by popular appeal

Antony Loewenstein: Israel must pay for crimes
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Evolution, agency, and Darwinian discourse — part I

As follows are my comments on an ongoing evolution-education post over at ecobobble:
I agree 100% with the argument that ID is trying to present itself as something it’s not (science). This is disingenuous, misleading, and fraught with lameness. …
[However] What i’m suggesting is that the reason ID proponents feel the need to promote their agenda [...]

Life, meaning and |truth| — part I

On another blog i contribute to–ecobobble–i recently replied to a co-author re: the ‘meaning of life’ … Here’s an excerpt of my comments, which basically reflect my inklings of |truth| (more to come):
Like many, i’d been struggling with this q how to derive ‘ought’ from ‘is’ for years. Somewhat recently, i stumbled upon something which, [...]

The Onion on Israel

via Vacation To Israel Canceled Due To History Of Israel | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.
Vacation to Israel Canceled due to History of Israel
HOBOKEN, NJ—With only three weeks to go before embarking on a much-anticipated vacation to Israel, 34-year-old Jeff Kaufmann made the difficult decision to cancel his trip yesterday, citing unfavorable exchange [...]

Palestinians as UN citizens?

During a recent moderated discussion on campus, I had the chance to pose a few questions to Canadian international law expert (and recent federal NDP candidate) Prof. Michael Byers.
Interested in what light his expertise may shed on ways forward for Israel-Palestine, i asked if there was any historical precedent for the UN asserting a mandate [...]

Palestine-Israel: the East Timor model?

As a sort of stop-gap compromise between the two-state solution and a permanent international protectorate, Prof. Dan Jacobson wrote this several months ago in the Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture:
…given the fundamental weakness of both the Israeli leadership and the Palestinian governing institutions… reputable observers of the Middle East scene are renewing their [...]

Israel-Palestine and the UN: back to the drawing board.

Two years ago, Brent Scowcroft said the following (via Tony Karon @ The Rootless Cosmopolitan):
Hezbollah is not the source of the problem, … It is a derivative of the cause, which is the tragic conflict over Palestine that began in 1948. The eastern shore of the Mediterranean is in turmoil from end to end, a [...]

Miracle Wonk® on an atomized Hamas

Atomized Hamas via Miracle Wonk

Most commentary on the Israeli-Palestine conflict presupposes that Hamas is a homogenous actor with clear, top-down leadership. Take Eric Trager’s ham-handed attempt to burst the meme that Israeli’s aggression is weakening prospects for a two-state solution:
It’s hard to see how a two-state solution had a better chance of success immediately prior to the [...]

Post-Muslim (Mohammad’s confession)

A good friend of mine has posted his ideological ‘confession’ on Philip Weiss’ Mondoweiss. While Mo(hammed) and i often disagree, we often agree on even more. He introduced me to Slavoj Zizek. I, by accident, introduced him to Bobby Sayyid.
Mondoweiss: Post Muslim (Mohammad’s confession)

Post Muslim is a complex case. Not easy.
My mother’s maternal grandfather was [...]

No kidding: Gaza Crisis Imperils 2-State Solution — NYT

As Antony Loewenstein notes, “…the New York Times finally gets the press release…”
News Analysis – Gaza Crisis Imperils 2-State Solution – NYTimes.com
At the moment, this only makes me more certain of the seemingly-absurd, yet ultimately most sustainable option of literally internationalizing the ‘Holy’ Land.