Michael Benjamin's Blog, page 4
July 27, 2016
From Oranit to Praszka
I wasn’t expecting the answer. What my mother had told me was true. As was what my father had said. It had all started on the Holocaust Remembrance Day a few months ago. My fastidious younger brother, Laurence had discovered some very old photographs he had obtained as a legacy from a very distant relative or […]
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June 25, 2016
The day the music died
Brexit came as a surprise. Probably the most surprising thing about Brexit was the delusional behaviour the day before. It was as if the entire political and economic ruling classes were willing themselves into a desired fantasy. It was the kind of fantasies we used to have back in the 60s when we started using […]
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May 28, 2016
On Psychiatry and Novel Writing
I need your help. To get your help, I will have to explain what I did and why I did it. And therein lies the problem; there are many reasons -no one succinctly explaining in any depth, all of them make some sense, but not much more than that. I wrote ’Sins and Lovers’ mainly […]
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March 26, 2016
Shooting the guard — yet again
I am not a bleeding-heart liberal. I am a card-carrying member of the Likud party. I belong to the so-called left wing of the Likud. I think there was a ‘Naqba’ in 1947 when Arab families were separated and fled the land they are so clearly attached. I also understand why since 1967, the Palestinians […]
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March 14, 2016
Medicine | The Broken System
Today’s medicine bases itself on three interconnecting basic components. The principles are in parts synergistic and parts contradictory. 1. The Doctor-Patient Relationship: This is the basis of the contract between the two key members of medicine. The knowledgeable MD works for the good of the patient and at his behest only. Implying the Doctor is […]
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March 3, 2016
Impeachment and chaos
There is a very simple axiom: power gives authority and control; you cannot have control without authority or power. In the end, the reality will be borne out. No doubt America is the only power, true power, in the world today. No matter how tired she may feel America is the superpower. It is the […]
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February 1, 2016
On the Cusp of a Disaster
Never did we need America more. Europe won a great war together with America; they beat both Nazi Germany and Japan. Having come full circle a totally reformed Germany is now leading the whole of Europe into an act of Hauraki. The population of France is changing rapidly as it exchanges Jews for Muslims. Europe […]
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November 9, 2015
Discrimination against Palestinians
We must all unite against discrimination. Palestinians have equal rights to everybody. No matter where they live or where they are born, they have equal rights, and it is a disgrace that they are denied these rights. Wherever a Palestinian born, he has the same rights as everybody else’s in that country. The world at […]
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The Conundrum Which Is Rabin
Rabin is one of the few people in Israeli history who is either admired or loved and generally both. I’m trying to write why this is so or why it shouldn’t be so; I found for the first time while writing a blog, I was having difficulty. I set the article aside, missed the deadline […]
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October 17, 2015
Three Arabs, Three Friends
This story is not allegoric. Mahmud, Ganim, and Husseini all existed. I met Ganim at university in far away Aberdeen in the 70s. We were the best of friends for four years, we drank together, ate together and spoke openly about the Middle East. Ganim confided in me the hangings in Baghdad were fiction; he knew […]
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