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Never Again – Not Only For Jews But For Everyone!

by Pier Marton | May 2, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Dance, Death, France, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

Yom HaShoah Haaretz Editorial =================== Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Day, which is being marked today, is above all a day of remembrance. Today is the day on which the Holocaust is to be recalled, and on which the memory of those who perished and the...

A.B. Yehoshua on the Middle-East conflict: it’s complicated

by Pier Marton | Apr 26, 2011 | Antisemitism, Death, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Time, Wars

Why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict refuses to be resolved in Haaretz An excerpt:Because this conflict is cyclical rather than linear – in other words, time does not necessarily bring us closer to a solution, peace approaches and recedes at historical junctions in...

Sephardic Names/Noms Sépharades

by Pier Marton | Apr 24, 2011 | France, Hispanic, History, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East

Aaron * Abarbanel * Abbas * Abbou * Abécassis * Abejdid * Abehséra * Abel * Abendavi * Abensour * Abensur * Abergel * Abesdris * Abettan * Abikhzer * Abikhzir * Abisror * Abitan * Abitbol * Aboab * Abohav * Abouaf * Aboukrat * Aboulafia * Abravanel * Abu * Abuaf *...

The BBC and Israel

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Racism

A family slaughtered in Israel – doesn’t the BBC care? Lame excuses followed the lack of coverage by the BBC… later, the killers showed no remorse. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit...

Jews: Free to Question Passover, God & Progress (+ what it is to be “a Jew”)

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, France, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, KeyText, Magyar, Middle-East, Mystery, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

¿Passover???oss?d? How can one pass over the fact that the 20th Century was the most murderous so far? The University of Hawai has compiled the disasters, whether through war or political regimes, to a grand total of 262 million killed. Click to email a link to a...

Jews: A People Free to Question

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Politics

Supporting Israel (& David Grossman) means questioning its policies by Edgar Bronfman Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus