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Posts by Noam Wiener

May. 3, 2010

Israel Palestine Desk – Pyrrhic Victory, Six Days in 1967

Since I have started this blog we have been steadily marching along with history and have almost arrived at the present day.  A few more wars, a little more blood-shed and we are there. In the last post I described…

Apr. 19, 2010

Israeli Independence/Palestinian Disaster – It Was the Best of Times; It Was the Worst of Times.

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Israeli Independence and the war of 1948 I ended the last post with the UN partition plan. This partition plan was a compromise, and like many compromises nobody was truly happy with it. But, and here credit is due where…

Apr. 5, 2010

Israel Palestine Desk – a Nation Without Land, a Land Without Nation.

In the previous entry I described the roots of Zionism. I thought this was a worthy exercise because the term gets bandied around so much. In this post I will describe how the early Zionists went about practicing their beliefs,…

Mar. 20, 2010

Israel Palestine Desk – Beginnings

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After following my rants on Facebook for a while, Marco suggested that I channel my frustration with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a more concentrated form, and suggested I start posting on La Acera. Maybe that’s not a terrible idea. But…

Mar. 20, 2010

Israel Palestine Desk – Meta Blog

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This is really the first time I am writing what might eventually develop into a continuous blog. Other than the apprehension involved with mass publishing on this scale and the worry that I’ll bore my readers to tears, there is…