Mar 24 2010
… In 1941, Ezekiel Bulver recounted the story of how, at the age of five, his destiny was determined when he heard his mother say to his father – who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than the third – “Oh, you say that because you are a man.” …
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Mar 21 2010
I came across this interesting (if dismaying can be interesting) article today: http://www.shipoffools.com/features/2009/a_visit_from_the_settlers.html It contains a link to the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI): http://www.eappi.org/en/about/overview.html Apparently Baptists in Sweden and the UK are a more enlightened bunch than our local crop of rapture-ready nimrods…
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Jan 11 2010
Bush, in a typical display of sensitivity, remarked about his 30-minute trip between Jerusalem and Ramallah yesterday: “You’ll be happy to know, my whole motorcade of a mere 45 cars was able to make it through without being stopped. I’m not so exactly sure that’s what happens to the average person.” For an example of how average persons get …
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Jan 07 2010
Here’s a fascinating glimpse into Israel’s “Jewish democracy” from the perspective of an American woman: http://www.transitionmagazine.com/articles/zion.htm One of the things that struck me as I read this was how Palestinians are, for the most part, a remote abstraction, as thoroughly cleansed from the cultural landscape of Israel as the American Indian is from ours. PS — …
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Dec 31 2009
This morning, a friend wrote this: Please don’t misunderstand me, largely because of [others], I now have much greater compassion for the plight of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. You-all have helped me see the other side of the coin, the one not easily available here because of the apparent pro-Israeli bias in our news …
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Sep 22 2009
Have you yet read Susan Nathan’s “The Other Side of Israel?” I must confess that I was a bit disappointed in the short presentation by Gila Svirsky yesterday. The experience was no doubt influenced by the snubbing (whether real or just perceived I cannot say) of my Palestinian friend who tried repeatedly to ask a question …
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Aug 29 2009
Anybody else watched this sci-fi flic yet? The first aerial shot of the alien ghetto reminded me of the refugee camps we used to see along the road to the Beirut airport. Besides being thoroughly entertained, did anyone but me see an Israeli/Palestinian connection? I did a quick Google search and found that there are a …
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