for those who have suffered evil

  Arundhati Roy is the most articulate and eloquent voice I know on Gaza. She speaks for me and for humanity.   Listen and watch her on this link   Roy On Gaza I have been meaning to read her book and for years and am now in the middle of "The ministry of Utmost Happiness" I find her hard to read, so my reading is slow. Each page packs the punch of another writer's chapter. The stories are dense and harrowing. It isn't about Gaza. It is about India and another part of the world that is special for me, Kashmir.  I have never been there any more than Palestine, but I have seen endless pictures of its stunning lakes and mountains.  Roy is telling us what my wife keeps telling me, that hell is on earth all over the place, not just in the middle east. People are vile creatures, many of them and perhaps all of us some of the time. It is disturbing to hear about the corruption and treachery and violence and torture they we see in Gaza, happening in much the same w...

                                    Blinding British Corruption                                                                                     or  Betrayal of Trust For many of us the world has been turned upside down, inside out, on its head. There hardly seems a set of words adequate to describe the level of damage to the foundations of our trust in the sanity of our culture that the crisis in Palestine has brought about. Our conceptual grasp of the society we are embedded in looks like the ruins of Gaza City. To get some perspective it may be useful to view things cross culturally, connecting the BBC, Blinding British Corruption, to what people from other cultures ...

  Post number 4          Daybreak in Gaza Zionists ask my if I have any “skin in this game”, which is to say, if I am not Jew or Arab it really should not matter to me. They say I must be antisemitic, because I care about Palestine, not the Congo or the Sudan, where Arabs are committing atrocities. Yes, there are lots of atrocities going on all the time in numerous parts of the world. I care less about these. I care about these people and this conflict because it focuses on the land I heard about every single day of my early life from 5 to 18. Why else? Because my maternal line is Bedouin, way way back. No, that is not enough, though it matters to me. Because this is the Holy land. Because I know the Bible, with its historical and mythological stories. Because I know that David killed Goliath, who was a Philistine, from Philistia or as it is now known, Palestine. I know that The Bible and the Jews did not come from the Ho...