Chaos theory is a new area of math study that among other things attempts to navigate the areas where systems of logic conflict with one another. The examples that I’ve been exposed to are physical, like an element reaching the boundary of a phase change, say like ice melting into water. The phase change itself represents [...]
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Chaos Theory in Ecology – Flying in a walking world
Posted in Ethics, Israel/Palestine on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Exploring Racism – Political
Posted in Ethics, Israel/Palestine, Jewish reflection on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is an obvious reciprocal connection between racism that expresses in the form of collective attitudes, prejudices, and individuals. Individuals derive what “everybody” knows from their neighbors, and neighbors derive “what everybody knows” from us. We individually can affect the tenor of prejudicial attitudes, even if only incrementally. The political signficance occurs when racism changes from [...]
Exploration into Racism – Social
Posted in Ethics, Israel/Palestine, Jewish reflection on July 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
There are three aspects to racism. 1. Individual – How do I personally interact with individuals from different races and cultures? My personal attitudes are my personal responsibility. I express them. The consequences result from my own actions. 2. Social – What am I a part of? How do collective attitudes affect the experience of [...]
Gaza – What is Going On?
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Jewish reflection on June 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The unfolding of events in Gaza were close to my worst fears associated with civil disobedience. Nothing went right. Every party reported on, acted in ways that were negligent, inciting, futile. Specifically, 1. Israel allowed the blockade to both occur at all, and to occur over an extended period (in spite of agreements during the 2008 [...]
Labor Zionism – Kibbutz and Class Struggle
Posted in Israel/Palestine on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Israel is different now than when it was founded. And, not so different. Many of the Jewish immigrants to then Palestine were young lower middle class idealists from Russia. They were influenced by the initial Russian social uprising in 1905, followed by pogroms blaming the uprising on Jews, as a large proportion of the uprising leaders [...]
1900 – 1930 Israel/Palestine Dreams and dreams
Posted in Israel/Palestine on September 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The setting of Jewish European experience in the early 20th century was one of remaining suppression and prejudice if not consistently persecution in Western Europe, and intense persecution and organized mob violence against Jews in Eastern Europe. Large numbers emigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States primarily, but also to England, Australia, Canada, South [...]
Israel/Palestine – Tributaries
Posted in Israel/Palestine on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am in a constant “dialog” with progressives on the web and face-to-face on the historical and present significance of Zionism. Frequently, those that form their definition of what should be politically from anarchist, socialist, and in my personal life Proutist ideals regard Zionism as tribal (not universal humanist), colonial (intentional European displacement of indigenous [...]
Jews are a people – Palestinians are a people
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Jewish reflection on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
About half of the Jews alive today live in Israel/Palestine. About half of the Palestinians alive today live in Israel/Palestine. We are each diaspora people, that have been scattered and gathered by larger historical forces. And, it is a truth (not a myth, not a rationalization, not deniable) that Israelis are not going to disappear [...]
Israel/Palestine – The World’s Zen Koan
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Jewish reflection on August 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve attempted to use the Israel/Palestine discussion as my “Own Private Idaho”. I’ve spent a great deal of time reading and discussing it, and arguing with individuals that have strong opinions from all perspectives of the discussion that are willing to engage me on it (many are not). There are aspects of the discussion that [...]
