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Wieder im Ghetto. A German translation of the newly written chapter for the third Swedish edition of my book on Israel, The Lost Land (Det förlorade landet, Das Verlorene Land) has been published by German Lettre International. A full translation in English is published by Eurozine.
Hannah Arendt. As a late tribute to the recent centennial of Hannah Arendt (she was born in 1906) I have added a small piece, Community and the Limits of Necessity, that I wrote more than ten years ago dealing with one of her most pertaining questions: Is there a way to strengthen those parts of modern existence where the distinctively human freedom to create and act can be separated from the demands of necessity?
Comment on the war in Gaza. The only thing that can be safely said about the ongoing war in Gaza is that it will exacerbate the conflict and obstruct the peace. That is, a peace which cannot be obstructed much further, since every child can see that the conditions for peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians have been undone, and that this war, as the previous ones will undo more. About war as a means much can be said, but historically wars have sometimes been a means to peace. So not this war. This war is only a means to hatred, humiliation and despair, and thus to new wars. With this war Israel has fully devoted herself to the task of creating an enemy that has nothing to lose and nothing to hope for, and who therefore like Samson in the Bible is nourishing a suicidal wish to die with its tormentors. Read more
