Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, September 13, 2010

Philip Weiss on Zionism and the Right of Palestinian Return

By John Ballard



Thoughtful post by Philip Weiss.
On a visit to Jordan he encountered a Jordanian complaining about his king.
Check it out.



...the creation of Israel is described as a great liberal advance. But it wasn�t a liberal advance. It was solving a European problem with a colonial enterprise that resolved itself with ethnic cleansing. The ethnic cleansing is remembered and resented across the Arab world. The Israelis thought that they could merely push the problem away, and they still think that, but it has haunted them.

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Zionism created this thoughtful man�s rage. Which, yes, is shared across the Arab world. This grievance must be answered. Only madmen want to strip Jews of power in western societies. Jewish power is just the flavor of the elite these days, the meritocratic culture of the west. The idea is to change Jews. Young Jews, liberal Jews, aware Jews, empowered Jews, universalist Jews, led by people like Lynn Gottlieb and Rebecca Vilkomerson, freely acknowledge the man�s grievance and are working to change the Jewish adherence to Zionism. That is the most productive work I can do.


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