by phoenix | Aug 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
Wait a minute… Howard can apologise to Vietnam Veterans for something his government didn’t do (the treatment they received on their return from the ‘war’) but can’t apologise to the first peoples of this nation for something his government didn’t...
by phoenix | Aug 14, 2006 | Uncategorized
Lo yisa goy el goy cherev. Lo yilmedu od milchama. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. The bit just before that is the famous “They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.”...
by phoenix | Aug 7, 2006 | Uncategorized
So, one other thing. Today was Nagasaki day and as a result, the Hiroshima Day rally was held in the city. There were many, many young people wearing sweatshirts with “Lebanon” written on the back and waving Lebanese flags. I was very...
by phoenix | Jul 16, 2006 | Uncategorized
I’m feeling my way to responses on this. I don’t have intellectual ones yet, not coherently, anyway. I saw a guy at the Picasso exhibit today wearing a kippah and, having just read about Sonia Mosse (was that her name?), the artist who stayed with...
by phoenix | Jul 15, 2006 | Uncategorized
I cannot comprehend what Israel has chosen to do in the last few weeks, nor how this ‘escalation’ is supposed to solve anything. Do they really think they’ll get their soldiers back by killing civilians? How can they not see the consequences of this? I...
