Brad Burston has written yet another lucid, compelling and compassionate essay in Haaretz on the common threads in the Israeli and Palestinian collective psyche. If only both sides could retain in their minds their shared values and experiences, then solving this bone-crushing conflict might actually be possible. His piece was written for Passover, [...]
Read full post...We owe a debt of gratitude to the NY Times’ Michael Slackman for his excellent coverage of last week’s Egyptian massacre of Sudanese refugees in Cairo. The death toll is now up to 26 (with Infoshop News reporting it as 27). UNHCR, which should be mortally embarrassed by its abandonment of the refugees [...]
Read full post... Protesting Sudanese drenched by water cannon defy Egyptian authorities command to disperse (photo: Ben Curtis/AP)
Every so often a picture really is better than a thousand words. This is true of Ben Curtis’s moving images of the Sudanese refugee massacre in Cairo two days ago in which Egyptian riot police, wielding [...]
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