A niece just returned from her birthright experience, I'll see what she thinks of the article.
(And any before/after reactions to the experience, which was quite an interesting tour of Israel...)
To Gary's point, nationalism was a great way to organize, right up until now,
because if we don't start THINKING AND ACTING GLOBALLY ain't no one going to be around to care.
Today' Headline: Fish in worse shape than previously thought
2 billion more people are expect to arrive by the same time the fisheries are extinguished, about 2050!
Won't much matter who believes or doesn't believe much when that occurs...
Frish
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Gary H <gary100dm@yahoo.com> wrote:
[A Secular Humanist Concern. - Gary]
"I believe that what 'poisons everything' is tribalism, machismo and greed."
-- Jennifer Michael Hecht
The Romance of Birthright Israel
Birthright Israel, the American Zionist organization that has, since its founding in 1999, spent almost $600 million to send more than 260,000 young diaspora Jews on free vacations to the Holy Land.
by Kiera Feldman
http://www.thenation.com/article/161460/romance-birthright-israel
the selling of Jewishness to Jews
"My liberal arts education taught me that any distinct concept or ideal will crumble under the scrutiny of too many questions," laments a recent college grad writing on her Birthright experience, which taught her "it was okay and even honorable to believe in the state of Israel, to adopt, so to speak, the settlers' original dream."
posted by Gary
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