Thursday, September 15, 2011

Todays Suggested Reading

Here is a great article that appeared in Tablet Magazine:

Summer Heat - by Etgar Keret

About maintaining the amazing coalition that came together this summer to fight for social and economic justice on the streets of Israel

Palestinian September is an Israeli-Palestinian disaster - Avi Shavit

A stark picture of what is about to occur

Netanyahu's masquerade is over -  Sefi Rachelevsky

A brutal look at Prime Minister Netanyahu and what exactly is going on.

Israel’s siege mentality - Hanan Naveh

An understanding of the Right Wing mentality that is affecting Israel.

The Mideast's new hero?  - Roee Nahmias

A look in at the populist rise of Erdogan with the Arab Street.

Blair floats proposal to buy time on Palestinian UN bid - Herb Keinon / JPOST

Tony Blair tries to buy some time before the U.N. vote.



Here are some interesting articles. I hope you find them as informative as I have.

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4 comments:

  1. I liked this list of suggested reading. The Etgar Keret article was so beautifully written. It very much expressed the unexpected spirit of the protests and the promise of things to come.

    The article about Turkey's Erdogan was a sobering view of unintended consequences from the Arab Spring's protests. Erdogan doesn't strike me as the type of leader the young protesters had in mind.

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  2. Thanks Anon... I liked those articles as well particularly Etgar Keret.

    The Erdogan article is tellilng particularly in the comparison to Gamel Adbel Nasser. BUT.. unlike Nasser Erdogan is not necessarily a rejectionist leader. That is more the role of the Iranians, Hizbollah, and the Assad dictatorship.

    Thanks for commenting here, I hope that you will be posting again.

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  3. Leftynyc here - The Keret article was so wonderfully written and so hopeful. Why aren't Americans in the streets? Maybe after watching millions march against the Iraq war (literally when added up), they saw the media ignore it and it was like it didn't happen. In that way, the Israeli media stands way above our own.

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  4. Yeah Lefty... The Keret article is a GREAT ONE! I don't know why we aren't in the streets demanding the President's Job Act or a number of other things.

    Do we have to wait for a Republican to go in and destroy everything for us to wake up???

    I agree 2000000%

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