States of Exile

We impute to the 'Jew' an impossible, unfathomable enjoyment, allegedly stolen from us. - Slavoj Zizek, For They Know Not What They Do Believers in the myth of the happy Jew, high off of life-energy stolen from Gentiles, need to read more Kafka. "There is infinite hope, but not for us." Sabbatai Zevi, the "false" messiah, was bipolar (according to Gershom Scholem). Otto Weininger, king of the misogynists, committed suicide (although that may have been his Germanic genes kicking in). Nietzsche complained that Jesus "only knew the tears and the melancholy of the Hebrew." Finally I will quote Leo Strauss's statement on the Jewish mission in history: "The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption."

... should be the old Near East. Morocco = Mauretania Algeria/Tunisia = Numidia Libya = Carthage Egypt = Egypt (not "Arab Republic of Egypt") Sudan = Cush Somalia = Punt Israel = Israel Palestine = Philistia Lebanon = Phoenicia Turkey = Greater Armenia Iraq = Assyria Syria = Aram Jordan = Nabatea Saudi Arabia = Arabia Iran = Persia

Cush shall soon stretch out her hands to God. - Psalms 68:31 From Haaretz : JUBA, South Sudan - The kibbutz movement is dying? Don't tell Emmanuel Logoro. "I have a dream," he says, sitting in his hut near a plastic Christmas tree that he brought home from Eilat, and taking out a briefcase filled with diagrams of a kibbutz's organizational structure. "I have plans." . . . The Logoro family loved Israel - but came back to South Sudan. "This is our home, after all," explains Emmanuel to his son Logoro, who was born at Yoseftal Medical Center in Eilat, sitting on his lap. "We are about to be an independent country and there are things for us to do here." Like start a kibbutz? "And why not?" asks Logoro. "We have the land, the rain, the people. It will unite us and take us forward, just as the Jews of Europe came together to pray, eat, work and develop their land ... What is better than a kibbutz, I ask you?" Am Cush Cha

Roger Sandall writes of the sadly unrealized Jewish Garden City: Emerson liked walking and so did Mumford. In 1916 he strode all over Manhattan —“East Side, West Side , north and south.” Biographer Donald L. Miller tells us how the New York neighborhoods he visited were observed, sketched, rated, while any that didn’t measure up got marked down for potential demolition. In New York ’s Jewish quarter “he encountered foul-smelling, clotted tenements he would later compare to those of Juvenal’s Rome .” All along the East Side, Mumford noted, “there was not a block after leaving Madison Avenue that was not dingy, grimy, dull and hopeless.” Funny thing was, the inhabitants of these dull and hopeless blocks were enjoying a bright and hopeful existence. When he stopped to think about it, it was plain to Mumford that such a vital culture should be preserved, though to do this in accord with the latest principles he’d acquired at City College everything would have to be scrubbed and relocated