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Aug.08.2012
Canaan (Kenaan in Hebrew, pronounced Ka-nan/Kan-yan) was the land of milk and honey for the ancient Israelites. It was promised to "them" through biblical prophecy. The English dictionary defines "ken" as a verb meaning "to recognize, discern or admit". "Ken" also refers to "Scots Law" meaning "to...
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Jul.20.2012
The Biblical figure Abraham was the patriarch of the Israelites. His grandson Jacob became prosperous and ruled over a portion of Canaan territory around 1800 B.C.E. The name of the God of the Israelites was "El Shaddai" or "El". Jacob renamed himself "strength with God", which in ancient Hebrew is...
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Jul.10.2012
Yasser Arafat's body will be exhumed. He was poisoned, they say. Besides the rather obviousness of the suspicion, for those who follow Middle East politics there is something quite intriguing about the timing.
It's been eight years. Mahmoud Abbas took over. Hamas became the other force, with the '...
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Jun.21.2012
If Alice Walker objects to Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people, not permitting the publication of the ‘The Color Purple’ in Hebrew will not alter anything. There is much to be said about making a statement, and I agree that it is valid in certain cases, but not in this one:
“I would...
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Jan.16.2012
Asia Minor and Anatolia are the same designation. It is the peninsula between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean and comprises the largest part of Turkey. Scholars believe Ancient Germans migrated from Northern Europe to Anatolia, assimilated with pre-Hittite tribes then later fought for...
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Sep.23.2011
"Footnotes are inessential at best. At worst they trip up the greater narrative."
Over the last two decades, Joe Sacco has helped invent a new genre: comic-book journalism. He’s reported from Sarajevo and Gorazde during the Bosnian War and from the Palestinian Territories during the two...
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Sep.22.2011
Whenever a novelist’s biography tells me that he’s “working on a screenplay,” my heart falls. I feel pity for the poor fellow who’s no doubt heading for disappointment (most scripts don’t get made) and for the novel, which exerts such a lesser lure than the glamour of the movies that a perfectly...
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Sep.10.2011
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When I began to think seriously of writing, it was always the most intricate, internal dynamics of characters that kept me coming back to create my fiction, even when I faced having to describe actual geography, and...
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Aug.11.2011
Civil disobedience is on the rise. This can be a good thing, as is the case in Israel this summer. Israeli women are risking criminal prosecution by going to the beach. They are taking Palestinian women along to protest decades of dehumanization. Read the full story on my Living in the Heartland...
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Jul.28.2011
For the last fourteen years, I and others have spent a chunk of our year preparing the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. As one of the co-founders, I execute every job I am even remotely qualified for from creating the website to doing PR. The executive director pulls his life apart to handle the...
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