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April 2011 visit to Israel and Overcoming Hitler

Communications / /

I fly to Israel on April 11, 2011 and return to the UK on May 3. I first visited Israel in 1992. It will be 20 years of annual visits along with regular visits to Nablus in the occupied territories.  2011 marks the year of the Arab awakening in several Arab countries. There are no signals of any indication of a change in Israel’s political/military policy towards Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza in the past two decades or before. …

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Arms dealers are like drug dealers. They must be stopped.

Political / /

As the war on Libya continues in its path of death and destruction, the dusty streets of the cities and villages and the yellow sands of the desert turn red with the blood of Libyans while the doctors and nurses struggle night and day with the maimed, wounded and traumatised. …

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“I want everyone of you to have a reason to be outraged”

Books, Photos and Music / /

“I want everyone of you to have a reason to be outraged”

Thorsten, a friend in Germany, kindly sent me a copy of Time For Outrage (Indignez-Vous), October 2010), a powerful 4000 word political critique of our wretchedly compliant society by Stephane Hessel, a former French diplomat. …

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A boy, a short film, a piano and a poem …..

Poems and Prose / /

Earlier this month, the class teacher  gave children 30 minutes to write a few lines about their response to a short animated film based on a husband playing the piano after the death of his wife. …

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