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Because you can
Read more: Because you canAround 20,000 have been killed in Gaza, but many more lie beneath the rubble. Since the West went to war to excise its two cancers, Nazism and Communism, its moral compass malfunctioned, jiggered by an overbearing righteousness. What has occurred in Gaza is only the latest example of a century-long…
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“I want to die”
Read more: “I want to die”The Angel of Death by Edvard Munch. My friend’s line had me by the throat: I want to die. I get it in phone calls and in messages, day and night, late and early, never deviating from its solitary eloquence. I want to die. Who is this friend? Best keep it vague. A…
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Buone cose
Read more: Buone coseNot all the dictionaries in the world can help you now. Language is at its best when it spits at by-now universal idioms. France of another era insisted it would never kowtow to “parking,” idiomatic Americanese at its simplest. That resistance didn’t make it past the seventies. But here and…
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Runaway truck
Read more: Runaway truckWhen life bulldozes you, you still have to get up and go to work. My latest cleaning lady is like a heavy-load truck with slashed tires that keeps on coming. She’s Bulgarian by birth, moved to Israel where she worked as a domestic in Haifa, married a Palestinian, bore a…
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All about war
Read more: All about warHouthi fighters in Yemen holding up the Palestinian flag. Israel says war, and so it is. The retaliatory invasion of Gaza has by now become the Sherman’s March of the 21st century, brutal, unyielding, and as cruel, if not crueler than the actions of its hostage-taking adversaries. But a war carries…
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Gaza, the sequel
Read more: Gaza, the sequelOmar Lafi, a Palestinian man, weeps by the body of his nephew, October 9, 2023. When Hamas carried out a bloody assault on Israeli citizens just outside Gaza, killing hundreds and taking hostages, veteran cynics were quick to point out the terrorist group had given a ferociously right-wing driven Israeli…
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