Category: History

Ours will be the same

As the Arabs see the Jews By His Majesty King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein (1882-1951), The American Magazine November, 1947 … I am especially delighted to address an American audience, for the tragic problem of Palestine will never be solved without American understanding, American sympathy, American support. So many billions of words have been written about …

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They may be right

The Absurdity of Christmas By David Lose, 12/22/11 07:37 AM ET … I’ve been struck by the ads and billboards atheists have purchased again this year suggesting that Christmas is, to put it kindly, a myth. Struck. Not offended or angered. Just struck. The gist of the advertisements is essentially that there is little to …

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Survivor

According to the park ranger, there are just a few remaining sections of old growth forest left in Hot Springs National Park.  We left the roads and trails and climbed up to the highest point of North Mountain, but if this was old growth, there were precious few survivors.  This may have been one of …

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Leaving the church in droves

Millennials will change the future of the church By Fred Clark, December 18, 2011 4:34 pm … First let me tell you a story from almost 20 years ago. My buddy Dwight and I were arguing over what I was going to wear to a meeting. “I’m not a catcher,” I told him. Catchers have …

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Approaching the birth

Why we’re celebrating hope this Christmas By Victor Batarseh, Thursday 15/12/2011 … It all started in Bethlehem. From here, the Christmas message was revealed to mankind; a message of joy, love and peace. And here we are today, after more than 2,000 years, reviving this eternal remembrance in faith and love, happily cheering and singing …

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Feliz Navidad 2011

Merry Christmas (or click here for your choice of alternative winter holidays) to all, from high atop the Fidel Castro observation tower, overlooking the United Nations penal facility for war criminals (formerly known as Guantanamo Bay detention camp)… Note: This is a slight adaptation (for the holidays) of an earlier work titled “Spandau Reborn,” a …

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Militarised mendacity

Last Post in Iraq: this is the death knell of the American empire By George Galloway, Thursday 15 December 2011 09.30 EST … So the Yanks are going home. Apart from the thousands of their servicemen and women whose lifeblood they are leaving in the sands of Iraq, and the tens of thousands too maimed …

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