Since posting about Spirit Airlines’ strange Judge Sotomayor-referencing marketing campaign, they sent another ad out. It was one of their ‘Cheapano Fibonacci‘ e-mail promotions. It seems they wanted to remind me of their long-time Gumbaxploition. I get it, so you ridicule all cultures for a quick buck, you’re not a racist.
Fibonacci is turning in his grave! His mathematical discovery is now being mocked for commercial flights. True, I used to laugh at it in high school, but it was probably important fr something (too lazy to wikipedia it).
Speaking of math, Mohamed Altoumaimi, a 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant, living in Sweden has cracked a maths puzzle that has stumped experts for more than 300 years. He found a formula to explain and simplify the so-called Bernoulli numbers.
He could be the next Einstein.
Speaking of Einstein, Mondoweiss has a review of a seemingly fascinating new book, Einstein on Israel and Zionism by Fred Jerome. What interested Adam Horowitz most was the “incredible exchange of ideas and debates over the issue of Zionism and Israel that Einstein took part in.”
It might surprise many ignoramuses that Einstein was against Jewish State.
Wow, it all goes back to Israel. Am I that predictable?
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I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. …the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power….I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain – especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks… — Einstein speech in New York, 1938.
Posted by Light | May 29, 2009, 5:36 pm"Wow, it all goes back to Israel. Am I that predictable?" I completely understad… I myself date any and everything back to the Nakbah. It's just my nature.
Posted by gayrab Linguist | May 29, 2009, 6:41 pmYeah. We were supposed to forget. Looks like Zionism failed in that regards.
Posted by KABOBfestWill | May 29, 2009, 8:49 pmEinstein was worried, but he was still a Zionist. His views were and are shared by many Israelis, including Israeli leaders. As Golda Meir put it to Anwar Sadat just before the Camp David Accords, "We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours."
Posted by Solomon2 | May 31, 2009, 2:11 pmEinstein would have lost his tenure for speaking like that today. In 1946 he testified before the Anglo American committee and said he opposed a Jewish State.
Judge Hutcheson: I have asked these various persons if it is essential to the right or the privilege of the Jews to go to Palestine, if it is essential to real Zionism that a setup be fixed so that the Jews have a Jewish state and a Jewish majority without regard to the Arab view. Do you share that point of view, or do you think the matter can be handled on any other basis?
Dr. Einstein: Yes, absolutely. The state idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with many difficulties and a narrow-mindedness. I believe it is bad.
Judge Hutcheson: Isn't it spiritual and ethical – I do not mean this particular Zionist movement, I do not mean the idea of insisting that a Jewish state must be created – isn't it anachronistic?
Dr. Einstein: In my opinion, yes. I am against it . . .
Posted by Light | June 2, 2009, 11:58 pmSadat was just a failed politician in search of acceptance and money to sustain his corrupt government officials and to backup his frustrated policies and leadership. But I guess Egypt is better off now thanks to the billions of dollars in aid from the U.S., second only to Israel. I don't want Egypt to fight our wars, but they can sure as hell do a better job in staying out of Palestinian politics. But then again, if Iran and Syria can't do so in Lebanon and in Iraq, why should Egypt do so with us? It's all a matter of interest and that's why the U.S. is worried, even though we get more of our oil from other parts of the world than we do from the Arab Gulf countries. I guess it all does go back to Israel, doesn't it Will?
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