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Jul.05.2010
I am still fascinated with New York.Definitely the most exciting city in the world.The sights, the subway,Times Square, the cuisine.Some other places I would like to visit are -The White House, Buckingham Palace,Paris,Rome,Kenya,Nigeria,The Great Pyramid at Giza ,Israel and Tibet.
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Jun.27.2010
If you’ve ever slathered your skin in the healing, mineral-rich mud of the Dead Sea, you may want to stop reading now.More than 8 million gallons of sewage from East Jerusalem is pumped downhill to the Dead Sea, raw and untreated, every day. That’s not just a little icky for those of us who like to...
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Jun.23.2010
I was under the impression that the English weren’t allowed into Wales any more, now that Tony Blair persuaded us we ought to have at least half a government of our own and let Westminster pay for it. I assume Colin Cotterill managed to make it through the border undercover on his Australian...
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Jun.12.2010
Their politics might be spinning wheels, but Palestinians are revving engines on the race track.NABLUS, West Bank — For a change, the Palestinians gathered on the main street of Nablus were happy to be going around in circles.Palestinian politics makes a lot of noise, only to end up spinning its...
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Jun.10.2010
My friend heard it from Wilbert Rideau, a writer she admires. He was commenting on the constraints that shape certain prison writers' perspectives. "They can only see the world," he said, "through the lens of their own pain."
Some of us are imprisoned by iron and stone, some by...
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Jun.10.2010
As though Israel isn’t already in enough trouble, it is acting like a Mom & Pop store doing charity work. Afraid that anything that looks remotely hard might work as weapons for Hamas – quite forgetting that the Palestinians in the days gone by had fought the might of Israel with barely any...
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Jun.09.2010
MASADA, Israel — A parade of bejeweled camels, elaborately costumed warriors and prancing horses crossed the stage. Jerusalem had fallen to a conqueror from the east. The high priest predicted disaster and the wrath of a vengeful deity. Three hours later, with searchlights flitting across the...
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Jun.07.2010
America’s Helen did not come from Troy; nor did she come from Washington, D.C. where she practiced her stellar career for 57 years. She “resigned” from her prestigious work as a journalist when the Hearst Corporation “let her go,” after she made an egregious remark about Jews, showing her anti-...
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Jun.04.2010
Earlier today, I came across a You Tube video that was posted by a "friend" on Facebook. The fellow who posted it is a blogger, and he made the point that Thomas should not be allowed to practice journalism because of a two minute clip that was evidently taken from a much longer...
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May.23.2010
NABLUS, West Bank — During the Palestinian intifada, I sat on a dusty hilltop overlooking this most violent of West Bank towns with a dozen of the top Israeli officers in the area. The brigade commanders told their regional chiefs that all the police work and house-to-house fighting of the intifada...
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