By Andrew Smith
US President Barak Obama and special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, are positively perplexed. This Middle East peacemaker gig really is more challenging than they anticipated. What a complex, thorny issue they have found themselves in. “Expectations were too high”, “We overestimated our ability”, President Obama stated in an interview with Time magazine. Obama explains that “divisions within their societies” made “meaningful conversation…very hard”. Perhaps these “divisions” that seem irreconcilable to the point of negating meaningful dialog point to why this conflict simply won’t resolve itself. Thousands of years of fighting in this Holy Land make a thousand more …
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Once upon a time at a school district far away there was a student named Jake. Jake was an orphan who bounced from one foster home to another, and was constantly being picked on. This started in kindergarten; he had a few friends, but most of the other kids ignored him, and a couple of the bigger kids would often steal his lunch, push him to the ground and taunt and insult him.
The principle, teachers and other administrators didn’t pay much attention; there was nothing about Jake that drew their notice. There were other kids, including some of …
by Fatemah Meghji
From Dr. Mads Gilbert & Dr. Erik Fosse’s Eyes in Gaza:
The boy with the destroyed brain did not need anaesthetic; he could no longer feel anything. The other lay in an artificial coma with intravenous anaesthetic agents to soften the pain and allow the ventilator to work without resistance from the boy’s own breathing. A large bandage covered both his eyes. He could not see anyway. He was already blind.
Where could I cry out the despair and rage I felt for all this terrible fate we saw …
Dr. Mads Gilbert, internationally acclaimed Doctor, Head of the Department of Emergency at the University of North Norway, Professor, and local politician embarks on a journey to describe his experiences last winter, during “Operation Cast Lead.” During the Israeli Offensive against the people of Gaza, Dr. Mads Gilbert and Dr. Erik Fosse were the only two foreign doctors allowed into the region, spending days and nights at the busy and over-crowded Al-Shifaa Hospital in a region forbidden to the rest of the world. With a complete blockade on Gaza, including medical aid and media, Dr. Mads Gilbert became a common face, keeping the world informed of the atrocities taking place in the virtual prison known as Gaza. As such, he was seen on Al-Jazeera, BBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and more.
By Andrew Smith
“Why did they fire rockets? There was no siege against Gaza. Why did they fight us, what did they want? There was never a day of starvation in Gaza.”
How do you feel about this statement, issued on a world stage, quite literally. Do you believe these are truthful statements issued by an honest world leader, representing a nation that seeks peace and justice? What interest would a world leader have in making deliberately misleading statements to other world leaders? If he is so sure of his position, why would he feel the need to lie?
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood
—
So that I could break the rule.
I learnt all the words and broke them up
To make a single word:
Homeland…
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