The Impossibility of Absolution

July 27, 2011
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God created the universe. Fine. Largely logical and eminently reasonable. Man however invented words, which by definition exist only in the subjective recesses of human existence; every meaning, all implications, therefore, are relative.

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The Cat is finally out of the bag

June 27, 2011
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Last year it was Israel’s intransigence – building apartments in greater Jerusalem and in their settlements in the West Bank – that was to blame for the lack of Mid-East peace. This year, it is all about Israel’s refusal to accept “1967 borders,” originally an armistice line

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Hypocrisy and Selective Democracy

May 19, 2011
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Egypt was weak and Mubarak was weaker. Egypt – or, rather, Egypt’s government and army – relied on 3 billion dollars of US aid per year, and was allied with the relatively unaggressive but super wealthy Saudi Arabia and associated Arab Emirates. So when ambiguous protests germinated, with a sprinkling of democrats and liberals, Obama [...]

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A Turkish Flotilla – In Reverse

May 4, 2011
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Turkey claimed the moral high ground last year in actively supporting the Mavi Marmara flotilla aimed to break Israel’s “siege” of Gaza. Truth be told the siege was in fact shared with Egypt and relates primarily to armaments, rockets and related war-faring materials

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Speech given by Leslie Sacks at the Women’s Voices Now Film Festival – 3/17/2011

March 30, 2011
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17 MARCH 2011 – Presentation by Leslie Sacks Welcome everyone. Welcome to Los Angeles. Welcome to the Women’s Voices Now first Film Festival. Let me start by addressing my wife, my incomparable wife Gina, whose life support has sustained me and without whom this unique project would not have been born, to my sister and [...]

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The Elephant in the Room

March 19, 2011
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Recall the seemingly absurd rationale (among others) given by president George W. Bush for invading Iraq: to bring freedom and democracy to the Arab Middle East. Satirists had a field day, while the bulk of the West’s intellectual and political classes mocked George junior with no respite.

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Obama’s White House – A Policy of Discrimination

February 3, 2011

Obama’s pledge, when running for president, was to focus on human rights not war, on democracy, not special interests. In Israel’s case, at the UN, he has come up sorely wanting.

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10 new COMMANDMENTS

February 3, 2011

1) Men must learn to think with their heads rather than with their (generally useless) genitals 2) Women must lead lives based more on their intellects and less on their (always valuable) hearts 3) Never use violence and intolerance unless combating violence and intolerance 4) Morality exists only in behavior and never in thoughts or [...]

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72 Virgins and their Civil Rights

December 30, 2010

Rumor has it that suicide-bombing martyrs to the cause of fanatical Islam are granted 72-virgins black-eyed upon their ascent to heaven. Don’t we owe these pictures of purity a modicum of civil rights? We’re sending them the most uncouth of men,murderers, and naïve, gullible children. Don’t these virgins have any choice in the matter, any [...]

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Solving the Housing Crisis

November 5, 2010

It may be simpler than the banks would have us believe. In places like Phoenix and Las Vegas, home prices have fallen by up to 50% from their peak. In Arizona and Nevada, more than 50% of mortgages are in negative equity. Yet when banks foreclose, they receive an average discount of 35% below the [...]

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