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Strenger than Fiction
by Carlo Strenger
Yeshayahu Leibowitz: Prophet of wrath, harbinger of the future
Because of his provocativeness, it's easy to miss Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s profound moral seriousness and the great relevance of his thought today.
By Carlo Strenger | Mar 13, 2013 | 12:03 PM | 10
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
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Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull.
'You didn’t knock me out!' - The horrible logic of Gaza escalation
Netanyahu and Barak's worst mistake in the current confrontation was to let Hamas dictate the terms of the game, paving the way for Hamas to claim another symbolic victory.
By Carlo Strenger | Nov 17, 2012 | 05:47 PM | 23
Pisgat Ze’ev - Emil Salman - 12082011
An open letter to Akiva Eldar: Looking beyond the two-state solution
Carlo Strenger responds to his friend and colleague's retirement, and asks what can be done to ensure that Jews and Palestinians can live alongside each other in peace and dignity.
By Carlo Strenger | Nov 14, 2012 | 08:44 AM | 23
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Obama’s victory and the American social contract: Lessons for Israel
This victory of American pluralism raises interesting questions for Israel because of one crucial similarity: Both countries are immigrant societies that have tragic conflicts with some of its minorities.
By Carlo Strenger | Nov 7, 2012 | 01:26 PM | 13
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The psychology behind Israel's status quo
Israel’s political right does not see that the long-term price of not ending the occupation, which endangers Israel’s survival as a democracy and turns Israel into the symbol of the conflict between the West and the Islamic world, could be horrendous.
By Carlo Strenger | Oct 31, 2012 | 12:59 PM | 3
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The psychology of Israel’s declining democracy
A recent Haaretz poll shows profoundly upsetting erosion in Jewish Israelis’ belief in universal human rights. Most Jewish Israelis acquiesce in discrimination against Arabs on the ground of ethnicity and or religion. If true, this points to a moral and political decline of frightening proportions.
By Carlo Strenger | Oct 24, 2012 | 10:41 AM | 19
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel’s upcoming elections: No hope we can believe in
There’s no hope that Israel’s voters will take to the streets and demand leadership that doesn’t endanger the future of the Jewish democracy.
By Carlo Strenger | Oct 17, 2012 | 02:02 PM | 3
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Salman Rushdie, and the right to offend
In Joseph Anton Rushdie rebels against the reduction of The Satanic Verses to an insult to Islam. I agree. But in modern liberal democracies, freedom of thought and expression are impossible without the right to offend.
By Carlo Strenger | Oct 10, 2012 | 01:20 PM | 3
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Soul-searching on Yom Kippur: Who is a good Jew?
How can we Jewish liberals be cured and turned again into good Jews? All we need to do is shut down our brains. According to Netanyahu & Co., this is the road to redemption.
By Carlo Strenger | Sep 25, 2012 | 11:13 AM
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Rosh Hashanah 5773: The End of Liberal Zionism?
We can only hope that Israel’s majority will wake up in time to realize that it has been electing governments that, under the guise of ultra-Zionism, are single-handedly destroying the Zionist dream of the democratic homeland of the Jews.
By Carlo Strenger | Sep 12, 2012 | 02:04 PM
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We've lost: It’s time to think about one state
For decades, Israel’s left has defined itself by its commitment to the two-state solution. It's high time to take a cold, hard look at reality.
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About this blog
Carlo Strenger is a philosopher and existential psychoanalyst, author of seven books, most recently The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Centuryand Israel, Einführung in ein schwieriges Land He serves as Professor at the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel Aviv University; on the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists; the Seminar of Existential Psychoanalysis in Zurich, and the Scientific Board of the Sigmund Freud Foundation, Vienna in addition to maintaining a part-time practice in existential psychoanalysis. Strenger is an outspoken defender of Classical Liberalism,and advocates a sane and just solution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He regularly writes in Haaretz, Israel's leading liberal Newspaper, where he runs a blog, 'Strenger than Fiction', Britain's The Guardian, Switzerland's Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and The New York Times. For more info see Strenger's Website
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