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Window on Israel
Sunday May 20, 2012
Not all immigrants to Israel receive a warm welcome.
The prominent exceptions to the smiles and good wishes concern Africans who pay Bedouin to smuggle them from Egypt through the Sinai.
Americans know the problem with Mexican and other illegal entrants from Central America. Europeans can think about North Africans, Turks, or others from poor countries who manage to get to Spanish, Italian, French, or Greek islands or the mainland...
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Saturday May 19, 2012
Among the comments heard in connection with the imploding of the Greek economy and politics is the prospect that emigration will increase. With unemployment estimated at above 50 percent among young Greeks, and a long history of exporting surplus population, the outflow appears to be a natural response to economic and political problems.
And what, thought I, does that mean for Israel? No society that I am aware of has as long a history of...
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Monday May 14, 2012
This note is immodest, and is likely to provoke condemnation.
It makes an appropriate nod in the direction of Jonathan Swift's classic of a slightly different name. It also fits within my concern for politics, and the plight of Americans, old enough to vote and do other things, who are not yet sure of what to do in November.
My proposal follows from an assessment of Barack Obama's declaration of support for same-sex marriages and his...
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Sunday May 13, 2012
Among the glories of a professor emeritus is a capacity to wander the stacks of a good library in search of something that looks interesting, without worrying how it will fit into this semester's courses.
I found by chance FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in American, 1933-1945, Edited by David B. Woolner and Richard G. Kurial (Palgrave: 2003). It is a collection of articles that emerged from a conference in 1998 that...
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Friday May 11, 2012
The country once riled (and still so in some localities) on the subject of alcohol and which has pursued a war against drugs since the 1970s is now beginning a presidential campaign with same-sex marriages as a central issue.
Its difficult to decide between ridicule and laughter, sadness and tears The country involved so heavily in the world is tying itself up again in an issue that is existentially personal.
While there are a...
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About This Blog
Hebrew University Political Science professor Ira Sharkansky evaluates the latest happenings in Israel.
Hebrew University Political Science professor Ira Sharkansky evaluates the latest happenings in Israel.
