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Author Archives: Richard Silverstein
Right of Return is ‘Right’ and a Right
No, Larry, the Right of Return is not “wrong.” That’s a catchy phrase that unfortunately does a dishonor to the suffering of nearly 1-million Israeli victims of the Nakba. And yes, I take the “radical” step of calling those expelled … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
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Naksa Day: How Do You Spell Relief? R-O-R
There’s an old American TV commercial in which the narrator intones seriously: “How do you spell relief, R-o-l-a-i-d-s.” There is only one way for Larry and Israel to redeem the crimes of Naksa Day, 2011: R-O-R. Before getting to that … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Palestine, Richard Silverstein, Zionism
Tagged Golan Heights, israel, israeli palestinians, Majdal Shams, Naksa Day, original sin, racism, right of return, Six-Day War, slavery, Syria
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Patriotism? Nuts to That
I felt ambivalent about Larry’s post about Israeli patriotism for a number of reasons, but the main one is that patriotism, as that wise saying goes, “is the last refuge of scoundrels.” Patriotism tells us very little about a country … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Judaism, Richard Silverstein, Zionism
Tagged israel, Martin Luther King, Osama bin Laden, patriotism last refuge of scoundrels, zionism
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Occupation: ‘Not the End. Not Even the Beginning of the End. But Perhaps the End of the Beginning.’
I might go a little farther than Churchill’s famous quotation above and say that perhaps we are near the beginning of the end of the Occupation. All this despite the fact that we face some of the worst conditions for … Continue reading
Israel: Nation for All Its Citizens
I do not favor a Jewish state, at least not one as defined by classical Zionism in which Jews have superior rights to other citizens of Israel. I am in favor of a state in which Judaism and Jews have … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel, Judaism, Richard Silverstein, Zionism
Tagged Arab people, ethnocracy, israel, Israeli Jews, Jewish state, law of return, nakba, Palestinian people, right of return, zionism
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‘Israel Reconsidered’ Blog Launch
About two months ago, Larry Derfner came to me with an intriguing proposition. He’ll describe it, no doubt, in his own words in his own post here. But he said to me that he’d grown tired of hearing the same-old … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Zionism
Tagged 1948, Arab–Israeli conflict, israel, law of return, nakba, palestine, progressive, right of return, zionism
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