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The Invention of the Jewish People

The Invention of the Jewish People, challenges conventional wisdom and deeply entrenched myths about the foundations of the state of Israel. Among the revelations in the book is the fact that the ancient kingdoms of Solomon and David did not exist as the Bible describes. He also challenges the myth of the Exodus of ancient Jews from Egypt, noting "the Ancient Egyptians kept meticulous records of every event ... yet there is not a single mention of any 'children of Israel' who lived in Egypt." He further points out that an exodus from Egypt would have involved moving across the Sinai peninsula into lands Egypt ruled over — thus escaping from Egypt to... Egypt.. More

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"Living in the End Times"

Tuesday 17 August 2010

by: Aaron Leonard, t r u t h o u t | Book Review

The landscape of the world inSlavoj Žižek's "Living in the End of Times" is dotted with incomprehensible horrors. Global ice sheets melt and various countries rush to plant their flags in order to profit from the exposed resources that lay below. TV talk shows in Indonesia feature participants in the massacre of millions of Communist sympathizers in 1966. Now respectable politicians, they proudly discuss how they were inspired by gangster movies. Local warlords and foreign armies feast on profits from coltan, diamonds, gold and copper extracted from the Congo - funding what Time Magazine called the "Deadliest War in the World," with four million killed in the past decade. Žižek's is not saying the end of the world is nigh ... exactly. What he is saying is that there are things going on to which we are just not paying sufficient attention.



(copyright, 2010 Aaron  Leonard)