tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post1939861873198887932..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: How pastiness came to PalestinePhoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-7620530723358916972013-03-13T20:52:15.260-04:002013-03-13T20:52:15.260-04:00Eamonn,
I think we agree on this.
Caryatis,
Wha...Eamonn,<br /><br />I think we agree on this.<br /><br />Caryatis,<br /><br />What a comment! Maybe? (Now I'm paranoid. And what if the comment is that I overuse parentheses!)Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-56702374435361404122013-03-13T20:49:57.781-04:002013-03-13T20:49:57.781-04:00Phoebe, are you interested in a suggestion about y...Phoebe, are you interested in a suggestion about your writing style?caryatisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-34704263780956429772013-03-13T14:58:16.253-04:002013-03-13T14:58:16.253-04:00A load of countries identify with - I mean in thei...A load of countries identify with - I mean in their constitution, laws etc. - a religion and are/claim to be democratic: Argentina and Greece (ever seen the carry on when they swear in a new PM in Greece?) to name but two. No one seems to find this odd. And yet...eamonnmcdonaghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07897129268585154483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-74166066019281693482013-03-12T16:31:47.280-04:002013-03-12T16:31:47.280-04:00The France thing made me think of our buddy Albert...The France thing made me think of our buddy Albert Memmi's thoughts on holiday closings. (What I'd also thought prior to reading Memmi, but he, like, wrote a book about it.) Also that those who have this view of Western Europe as a universalist utopia tend not to have much knowledge of the place, of the more subtle or polite forms of exclusion that operate among the 'enlightened' or 'civilized' or what-have-you.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-60919061847635142962013-03-12T15:33:28.332-04:002013-03-12T15:33:28.332-04:00This is a good post. I read Levine's article b...This is a good post. I read Levine's article but I'm mostly without an outlet to express my objection. Hence, I've resorted to delivering All The Thoughts to my friends who were foolhardy enough to ask my opinion on it.<br /><br />In any event, I'm glad you take on Levine's ... charitable interpretation of French-Jewish history, as that raised my eyebrow as well. I also think that Levine's claim that states must favor all of its civitas equally is conceptually incoherent, and his claim that a Jewish state is one that "favors" Jews (rather than one where Jews are in a position to control their own destiny) is misguided.David Schraubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.com