Hussein Ibish: one-state ‘outcome’ is not a one-state ’solution’

Is Hussein Ibish a level-headed pragmatist key to Paletine’s future, or a Washington socialite unwittingly co-opted by an intellectually bankrupt mainstream? I dont know. In any case, he does a impressive job of distinguishing bewteen a one-state ’solution’ (potentially desirable) and one-state ‘outcome’ (unthinkably disastrous). From Jeffrey Golberg’s blog via Juan Cole:
Hussein Ibish, a senior [...]

a zizekian ramble on truth and ideology

This is a new kind of post where i have no idea what it is i want to say, other than that i need to say something. I just finished watching yet another brilliant Slavoj Zizek talk, so brilliant that i find myself uncomfortably close to deifying the man. I don’t know how to post [...]

The new Zionist myth?

Following up from a previous post, one of many interviews with a solider who participated in Operation Cast Lead:

What does it mean when the state itself sanctions this kind of cosmic-scale, theological rationale for destruction? Is this the 21st century? If so, maybe it’s time for some new mythologies, some new [...]

Smart

Brilliant point 11mins 20 seconds in.

An Islamic History of Europe?

Why does history matter? It’s the sole provider of context, of meaning, to the otherwise unfathomably complex temporal world. The narratives that sit in your head are the prisms through which you view the world. Successful demagogues know this–so do (good) novelists and filmmakers.
I’ve made this point before, but i feel it’s worth making again: [...]

BBC 4: Science and Islam

As both a child of the globalized era, and someone involved in education, i’m continually irked by the myopic (judeo)-christian-centred narratives on the history of global ‘progress’ presented to students here in the west (and probably elsewhere, although i can’t speak to that).
Here’s a doc by BBC 4 that tries to remedy this. It’s not [...]

Ethnocentrism + armed testosterone

This disturbing, if unsurprising, news echoes the efforts first launched by Noam Chayut and his Breaking the Silence project, affording Israeli soldiers both a suitable platform and the requisite anonymity to voice their honest recollections of time spent serving in ‘the territories.’
The organization says it is currently working ‘on a collection of soldiers’ testimonies from [...]

Probability, the Law of Large Numbers and |truth|

Below is a thought-provoking, if half-baked, non-dualistic take on the central principle of probability theory.
The Law of Large Numbers by Ramesh Balsekar.
Ramesh Balsekar
Creating Order Out of Disorder:
The Theory of Probability – The Law of Large Numbers
One of the best kept secrets of the universe relates to the question of how the sub-atomic, micro-world of [...]

Darwin’s unfinished revolution | The Economist

Cambridge paleontologist Simon Conway-Morris has interesting ideas about the tendency of evolution to follow certain overarching pathways. In a recent talk while visiting here on campus, he went on to make some oblique, but fascinating, conjectures about the immanence of phenomena such as complexity and intelligence. The Economist discusses him here:
… Simon Conway-Morris, a [...]

Loewenstein: Israel should be tried by popular appeal

Antony Loewenstein: Israel must pay for crimes
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