The Washington Post, July 24, 2014. Damaged building in Gaza (Hatem Moussa/AP via Washington Post) U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary of State John Kerry and the foreign ministers of Great Britain and France all are rushing to achieve a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Their motive — to end civilian suffering and restore stability to the area — is noble. The…
In May 1948, while David Ben-Gurion and other Zionist leaders deliberated whether or not to declare Israel’s independence, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall strongly objected to the move, predicting the massacre of the country’s entire Jewish population, and President Truman declared an arms embargo of the emerging Jewish state. Similarly, in the Suez Crisis…
The announcement Friday night that IDF troops had shot and killed three Israelis who had managed to escape Hamas captivity, pitched the nation into a despondency it had not known since October 7.
This post is Part II in a two-part guest series from Andrew Pessin, Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College and Campus Bureau Editor for the Algemeiner.
Who can speak about the future when our present is so bleak? Who, through all the pain and the trauma of today, can think about tomorrow? And yet tomorrow not today was to be my topic tonight.
This post is Part I in a two-part guest series from Andrew Pessin, Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College and Campus Bureau Editor for the Algemeiner. Stay tuned for Part II 1. Yes or No It’s a simple yes or no question. Much follows from how one answers the question, but we’ll start with just…
Oxford Languages defines synecdoche as “a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in ‘Cleveland won by six runs’ (meaning Cleveland’s baseball team)”.
I used to say that when I was born, a decade after the end of World War II, the ovens of Auschwitz were still warm. Since then, I believed, they had cooled to the point of extinction. I was wrong. The crematoria are still very warm and rapidly getting hotter. Hostage posters placed on the tracks…
