Moshe Amon's archived website

My good friend Moshe Amon (1930-2014) was a political philosopher who wrote and lectured on Judaism, terrorism, and globalization. His early work was published in journals and books, but in his later years Moshe wrote mainly for his website, mosheamon.com. The website has been offline for several years but at least parts of it have been preserved and archived by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at this URL:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170709105308/http://www.mosheamon.com/ Click here for instructions for using the Wayback Machine website. This version, captured on 14 December 2014, may be the most complete: https://web.archive.org/web/20141221195458/http://www.mosheamon.com/

Try other dates. This is what was captured on 18 February 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090218151811/http://www.mosheamon.com:80/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Moshe was an accomplished photographer and posted some of his striking images of people and places in Israel and Egypt on his site, but unfortunately these are not included in the archived version.

My thanks to Carrie Marsh, Head of Special Collections of the Claremont Colleges Library, for pointing me to this resource.

Moshe and I met in the late 1960s when we were both doctoral students in political science at Claremont Graduate University. We had long talks in Claremont; in Wilmington, North Carolina when he lived there; at conferences in other places around North America; and during a visit I made to Israel when he returned to Tel Aviv to deal with his parents' estate. He and I had different perspectives and disagreed on some things, but that made it interesting. (I can hear him scolding me for using that word "interesting," which he thought was a lazy thing to do: "Why is it interesting? What do you mean?")

I plan to include stories about Moshe in my memoir.

Moshe's introduction to his website:

Welcome to my website. I hope you enjoy the visit and come back. Your feedback and own thoughts on the content will be appreciated.

The accent in this site is on change. Assuming that we are now in the midst of a major change from a tool-making to a thought-producing society, from a conglomeration of national states to globalization, from social and political theories wrought in a solid four dimensional world conducted by conflicting power vectors to a multidimensional world in a state of flux in which the focus is less on conflict and more on consent, from a cause and effect to probability and so on, it seems that we are moving not only to a new era but also to a new stage in human evolution.

In my articles I have tried to relate to the nature of the change, and adumbrate the shape and configuration of the new construction and the consequences of the changes in social, political, and ethical approaches.

My articles and vignettes on Israel deal mainly with the changes at the time of transition from the British mandate to the creation of Israel. I build them around personal experiences, but the accent and the intent is more on describing the general atmosphere at that time of major change.

In the vignette section under the title of The End of the Line I also display the biographies of my father and family from Zionist organization in Poland to Palestine and Israel.

About the author

Born in Poland 1930. Emigrated to Israel 1934. In the last high school class to graduate under the British Mandate of Palestine and among the first high school graduates to fight in Israel's 1948 War of Independence. Also fought in the wars of 1956 and 1967. Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School [now Claremont Graduate University]. Published articles mainly on Judaism, terrorism, and globalization.

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