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The Jewish Experience - by Gilad Atzmon

By Gilad Atzmon • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Gilad Atzmon, Gilad's Choice, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Our Authors, Palestine, Religion, War, Zionism

For more than half a century, those who have been trying to combat the forces that are behind the Israeli paradigm have been identifying Israeli policies and practice with Zionism and Zionist Ideology. I am afraid to say that they were wrong all the way along. Indeed, Zionism’s project dictates the plunder of Palestine in [...]


Anatomy of a Conditionally Unresolved Conflict

By Gilad Atzmon • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Gilad Atzmon, Gilad's Choice, Israel, Our Authors, Religion, Zionism

According to Hegel, attaining ’self-consciousness’ is a process that necessarily involves the other. How am I to become conscious of myself in general? It is simply through desire or anger, for example. Unlike animals that overcome biological needs by destroying another organic entity, human desire is a desire for recognition.
In Hegelian terms, recognition is accomplished [...]