Haaretz features an interesting column by Yossi Sarid praising the U.S. primary system and elections. It’s an unlikely perspective considering how bizarre and exhausting it must seem to most foreign observers. But there is one particular point of Sarid’s essay–in which our primaries and the rise of Barack Obama encourage Sarid, because they [...]
Read full post...When we were teenagers one of the most severe insults you could hurl at someone went something like this: “You’re so dumb you don’t deserve to live.” Sometimes when I read about some absolutely lame-assed, dumb IDF military actions I harken back to those teenage days. On days like this, Ehud Olmert and [...]
Read full post...Yossi Sarid, despite his political longevity has lost none of his political acuity as demonstrated by this column in today’s Haaretz. He echoes a number of my own criticisms of the Gaza invasion in this caustic cry of outrage:
By the time operation Summer Rains ends, the reason for it will have been completely forgotten. [...]
In Haaretz, Yossi Sarid takes the opportunity offered by Israel’s Yom Hazikaron (”Day of Remembrance”) and the publication of Amos Elon’s, The Pity of It All: Jews in Germany 1743-1933, to draw some important moral lessons for Israel in its current intractable war with the Palestinians. What’s more, Sarid’s moral lessons can just as [...]
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