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The Slow Death of Christian Bethlehem: what the Pope can do

Added: two videos I’ve been very critical of Pope Benedict for not including Gaza on his visit to Palestine. The circumstances surrounding his decision to visit are that he was … Continue reading

14 May, 2009 · Leave a comment

Jesus, Mary and Joseph: a Semitic Christ!, or Season’s Greetings and Remember Gaza

For suitable exclamatory effect, you might wish to pronounce “Jesus, Mary and Joseph” in an Irish accent: it just sounds better.  If you glance to the right you’ll notice a … Continue reading

23 December, 2008 · 10 Comments

Dr H in the Holy Land III: Bethlehem

I feel suffocated here… Last week when I came, I kept hearing people talk about being in a “prison”, “animals in a cage”, time and time again. A week later … Continue reading

27 July, 2008 · Leave a comment

More guerilla graffiti in the Holy Land: Israel’s apartheid barrier as a canvas

Indeed, Love–and art–Conquers (W)all — here’s some more creative culture-jamming that allows you to participate by sending a message to feature on the wall. All proceeds go to the Ramallah … Continue reading

18 January, 2008 · 7 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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