Some Things to Fight Against…

by Pier Marton | Oct 13, 2010 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Politics, Racism

10 Israeli “mistakes” that need correcting by Bradley Burston
1. The Loyalty Oath.

2. Deporting Children Who Want to be Israelis

3. Expanding settlement in East Jerusalem

4. Resuming Construction of the Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance

5. Perpetuating the siege on Gaza

6. Using attack dogs against protesters sailing on aid boats to Gaza

7. Barring entry and/or jailing and/or expelling additional Nobel Peace Prize winners, intellectuals, authors, and clowns.

8. Gratuitously and intentionally angering Turkish and other Mideastern neighbors.

9. Gratuitously and intentionally angering the U.S. and E.U., and giving them the impression that Israeli and Diaspora Jews prefer settlements to peace with the Palestinians.

10. Failing to indict Avigdor Lieberman for alleged money laundering.

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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