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@AoDespair
Nov 24, 2017 • 12 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
HOLIDAY THREAD: Family to dgoes to dinner tonight at Loch Bar in Baltimore, seated next to couple of very scruffy fellas at the next table over. Lot of hard life on the faces of both. Before waitress arrives, smell hits -- one that comes from days & nights on the street....
Ok, so Laura and I suspend all judgment because hey, they're here for a meal and who knows what the back story is and they smile warmly at my kid, and I'm rooting for everyone because this is Baltimore, and man, it's hard. Then I hear one say to his friend...

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Mar 22
A tell: Strategically, this weeks raid on Al-Shifra hospital, however successful or exaggerated it proves to be, gives the lie to the entire Israeli operation in Gaza. If Israel secured the hospital in November and was compelled to raid and empty it again five months later...
...is this not a miserable metaphor for what a counterinsurgent war of attrition can and can't achieve in Gaza? The illusion of ending Hamas or Islamic Jihad and restoring some alternate civil stability in the vacuum is revealed by the inability to secure a single hospital...
...Basically, the IDF is an elephant that rules where it stands but can't stand everywhere, or even anywhere forever. And once they move on, that portion of Gaza is no longer secure. If the premise of removing Hamas from the governance of Gaza was plausible, and an end to...
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A brief history of my alma mater:
When the Abell family sold the Baltimore Sun to an out-of-town newspaper chain, we fretted, but were told that Times Mirror was a good chain, not like Gannett or whatever. We would be fine.
When the good chain brought in an out-of-town...
editors and publisher for whom the Baltimore Sun was no longer a vehicle to fully cover a distinct metro region, but rather a waystation in which they might sniff up a Pulitzer or two and then depart for higher positions in the newspaper chain, I took the third buyout offered...
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You in your rancid rhetoric use Jewish immigration is an ahistorical punchline. In the prewar era, when accompanied by land purchases and geography proscribed by the British, it resulted in pogroms and cries to kill the Jews; postwar, when it was postwar...
...and a remnant of slaughtered millions coming from the DP camps and a Europe that had proved them truly stateless, it was a declared war and cries to drive the Jews into the sea: post-48 when it was every Muslim country spitting out their entire Jewish populations in a...
....truly comprehensive ethnic cleansing, that's a migration to which anyone full-throated about the Nakba manages a perfect silence. It seems there's no place a Jew can safely abide and no homeland to which he might travel without rage and displeasure greeting him. Or assholic..
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Dec 24, 2023
Context is king. The entire history of the Levant from Mandatory Palestine on is NOT one in which coexistence with the Jewish population was sought or assured. Jerusalem '20, Hebron, '29, the Mufti journeying to Berlin to urge Hitler to do what he would with the Jews in '43....
...and then the plan. assertion that the UN partition plan should be rejected and the Jews driven to the sea by combined Arab arms in '47, the flip side of the Nakba that often goes unspoken when Palestinians speak of that tragedy. None of this is written to obscure the Israeli..
...affronts to Palestinian autonomy and the denial of statehood that correspond since 1948. For every Kfar Etzion, there is a Deir Yassin, for every Qibya a Maalot, for the Hamas butcheries of burning buses and cafes there is the growing violence of the West Bank settlers and...
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If you ever work with someone of great spirit and talent, and you are one of those people who carry an emergency ration of guilt and shame in your back pocket, then when that great soul is suddenly gone the memories that rush up first will not be the best ones...
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Words have meaning. For example, the murders on October 7 were not indiscriminate, but discriminate. Hamas hunted and butchered women and children with full purpose. And it military efficacy is your measure of amorality, I have no problem continuing to condemn both sides...
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