August 2008 archive
For me, this is probably the work that got the Israeli PR thinkers to seeing the possibilities for a beautiful friendship between Zionism and fundamentalism: Hal Lindsey’s 1970 “The Late, Great Planet Earth.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Great_Planet_Earth
I remember hearing about this while…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2008/08/24/layers-part-2/
There is another, deeper, emotional/spiritual layer to this entire problem. I used to try to explain it but it falls on secular ears, and is largely ignored as insignificant. It is anything but, and anyone who cares about justice and…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2008/08/24/layers/
What do we really cherish? America absolves itself the same way a smoker convinces himself he’ll never get cancer. In both cases, there is plenty of available information from which the truth of the matter can be gleaned, but that…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2008/08/20/if-americans-only-knew/
I’ve been meaning to ask you if you watched the Saturday night Saddleback forum and, if so, what you thought of it. I’ll go ahead and give you my two-cents’ take…
First, Rick Warren came across as a little too…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2008/08/19/rick-warrens-forum/
http://mahmouddarwish.com/english/introduction.htm
A woman asked the cloud: please enfold my loved one
My clothes are soaked with his blood
If you shall not be rain, my love
Be trees
Saturated with fertility, be trees
And if you shall not be trees, …
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2008/08/09/mahmoud-darwish-dead-at-67/
