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...birthed a subgenre of avant-garde films and inspired the '60s wave of multimedia art in concert halls and discos. (Conner also designed light shows at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom.) Some of his films were more politically explicit - Report, on the Kennedy assassination, and Crossroads, on the A bomb - but all were things of beauty and horror. Conner is survived by Jean Sandstedt, his wife of 50 years...
Like 24 (Jack Bauer and his ticking-time-bomb scenarios return Jan. 11), BSG tests the morality and rationalizations of an age of fear. Roslin is idealistic but possibly blinded by belief; Adama is high-handed but often right to be that way. Even swashbuckling pilot Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) is unstable as often as heroic. The Cylons, meanwhile, prove a fascinating society, racked with doubt and riven by debate over their religious mission...
...Just as ominous for many Israelis is a ticking demographic time bomb: the likelihood that Arabs will vastly outnumber Jews in the land stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean is a catastrophic prospect for a nation that defines itself by its faith. At some point, Israelis will have to choose between living with an independent Palestinian state or watching Jews become a minority in their own land...
Israel’s response is criticized as “disproportionate and inappropriate” because so many civilians in Gaza have, sadly, been killed in the operation. What this sort of calculus ignores, however, is the tens of millions of dollars Israel has invested in bomb shelters throughout the south, the early warning system it has installed, and the mass migration of Israelis from their homes to avoid the murderous rain of rockets falling daily from the sky. Civilian deaths are horrible and tragic, but to suggest that death ought to be the only measure...
...then Israel had already decided that the entire infrastructure of this already impoverished city was dispensable collateral damage in its hunt for a few Hamas militants. Major newspapers carried the story of five daughters of the Balousha family, who were killed while hiding in a mosque that Israel bombed alongside one of its other targets: the Jabalya refugee center. Ha’aretz writer Amira Hass reported that, despite military intelligence, Israel chose to bomb in the vicinity of elementary schools precisely after children were dismissed, when they would be out in the streets. Whether the murder of children...