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Feb.10.2009
I could not agree more on John' last comment on my previous post.
I share the same sense not only about Kennedy and Bisharat's pieces but more generally about my own work, including Plunder. Everything boils down to the role of intellectuals, to the thesis on Feuerbach that one should transform...
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Feb.09.2009
Duncan Kennedy, one of the most sophisticated legal scholars that the U.S. academia can display has written this important op ed on the Harvard Crimson. Duncan's book "A Critique of Adjudication" has been highly influential in my own thinking about the rule of law and its strategic uses....
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Feb.07.2009
It seems that the only topic that really makes people write on the Plunder blog is Israel. This is completely acceptable to me given the circmstances thus I believe that both the broader (Afghanistan ecc.) and the smaller (Troy Davis) pictures need to be discussed and I would like to know what some...
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Jan.31.2009
I would like to offer to my readers the unique posibility to see a number of extremely interesting and touching movies taken directly in Gaza by a friend of a friend of mine who is one of the very few Western journalists that have been around through the carneage. The written comments are in...
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Jan.30.2009
First let me apologize for the long silence... I was just overwhelmend trying to close a book and I will be in such pathetic state for another week or so. I hope I will not loose all my readers...I enjoyed the thoughts of John and the logical conclusion is that adversary institutions never are...
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Jan.26.2009
the adversary truth, typical of the rule of law ideology, has infected also history and politics. The legal idea of truth, that we export with the rule of law, is that it can "naturally" stem from two opposite partisan visions. When I was invited to talk at a high school, the faculty,...
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Jan.20.2009
Describing the desperate forces of resistance as thugs or terrorists shows a state of denial even in the people that otherwise are genuinely committed to peace. Recently it has been the case with Hezbollah and now with Hamas. Before it was with anti-nazi partisans or anticolonial or post...
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Jan.18.2009
I would like to send to President Obama and to the whole US people the best wishes for the next four years. Might the US and the Western world reverse to some decency and civilization!
Today one should be happy of the one week truce between Isreal and Hamas. But the truth of the matter is that a...
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Jan.18.2009
There are several organizations working for peace and justice in the Middle East. Here are some particularly focused on the Palestine/Israel conflict which I am reviewing.
I am not representing or recommending you join these organizations, but many have asked me "What can be done?...
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Jan.17.2009
This is what, according to leading Israeli historian Ian Pappe, Israel is telling to he world in Gaza. We'll see in the next hours if Obama will receive the "magic" gift of a truce, confirming his administration in the good feelings thus far abundantly expressed towards the...
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