The Guardian’s Science correspondent Alok Jha has written a piece on the occasion of the 70th birthday celebration of scientist Stephen Hawking reporting: “The world’s most famous living scientists turns 70 today. Professor Stephen Hawking has defied medical expectations, since being diagnosed with a form of motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and [...]
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The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan is facing a new crisis point. According to a late-night report from the Silwan Information Center (Silwanic), posted on their website here, “Silwanic has been informed that the illegal settlement of Beit Yonatan in the Baten al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan will be evicted at 9am either tomorrow [16 January] [...]
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You’re so vain, I bet you think this post is about you… Here is a great message: “Every war has two losers“. It was originally written by William Stafford. “Every War Has Two Losers” is also the title of a 32-minute documentary film about the views of poet + conscientious objector William Stafford (1914-1993), who [...]
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Here’s one suggestion, from an article in the NY Times: “That’s love … All it requires is a little bravery. Or a lot”.
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This video posted on Youtube hereshows the dreadful Bethlehem “300″ (or “Rachel’s Tomb”) terminal as looking a lot like Erez crossing into Gaza used to look, back in the days when tens of thousands of Gazans lined up in the pre-dawn hours to be herded through lines leading to daily employment in Israel. Here’s another [...]
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There is an edited version of an interview with Leonard Cohen published today in The Guardian which makes me wonder about Leonard Cohen and love. It made me think of someone whose birthday is today (not Leonard Cohen – his birthday is 21 September, as we already reported here . ) According to The Guardian, [...]
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I once drove through the Ar-Ram checkpoint with two flat tires, just praying that the soldiers wouldn’t be more difficult than usual, so I could get to a garage to put in enough air to get to a place where I could have the tire repaired. That time, my tires were probably deliberately punctured in [...]
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Today, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met Noam Shalit, the father of IDF Corporal Gilad Shalit who was seized in a cross-border raid in late June 2006, and who is still presumably being held somewhere in Gaza. Carter took a letter from Shalit’s parents to their son, and hopes to transfer it during a visit [...]
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Sixteen international investigators and judges have written a open letter to the UNSG BAN Ki-Moon, and to the UN Security Council, calling for a full international investigation into alleged abuses of international law during the recent Gaza conflict — not just one limited to attacks on UN installations. The call is supported by Amnesty International, [...]
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There are now 125 members of the press jailed world-wide, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) — and 56 of them are on-line journalists, “reflecting the rising influence of online reporting and commentary”, CPJ says in its newly-released annual census of imprisoned journalists. According to its report, “CPJ found that 45 [...]
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