Sunday, August 24, 2014

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Zionism, Part VIII - To Be and Not to Be


To Be And Not To Be


Jews in Jerusalem (1895)


Menachem Begin as Illegal Terrorist (1948)

Mandate Palestinians harvesting Oranges



Bulldozing Palestinian Olive Groves
(courtesy Caterpillar Corp.)


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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Zionism, Part VII - Hammering Back to the Future


Hammering Back to the Future

Emir Faisal I, lobbying at Versailles






Weizmann & Faisal doing "Semitic Solidarity"

Jewish Owned Land as of March1945
(likely not much more than as of 1937)

Peel Plan Partition



The 1947 Partition did not include Jerusalem
the western half of which was seized in 1948




President Weizmann











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Friday, August 8, 2014

Zionism, Part VI - The New Homeland


The New Homeland


A Higher Form of City

15th Cent., Pentateuch (Rome)

Graphic Conceptualization of Fragmentation under Over-Arching Unity

Germanic Decorative Motif






Sephardic  Synagogue (El Transito) in Spain


Ashkenzi Synagogue, Wolpa, Poland.


Maccabean Gifilte Fisch?



Polish Felafski?


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Monday, August 4, 2014

Zionism, Part V - A King Like Unto Other Nations


A King Like Unto Other Nations.



Pulling into Tel Aviv Station



Those were the days, my friend....









Pius XII



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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Zionism, Part IV - An Article of Faith


An Article of Faith
 



A "Holocaust Sculpture"




Detail from Crucifixion by Mathias Gruenwald (1550)

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