Part of a series : a few things I ran across in Colindale yesterday. Ban on Bare Legs? Dancer Shocks Patrons of Royal Opera House SHEIK-SLAVE SCENE “Perfectly Proper,” Says Producer The appearance of a bare-legged dancer in a song-scena at the Covent Garden Opera House, London, has so shocked the patrons of the Royal Opera House dances that the directors have decided that her costume must...
Knowing full well that I tee myself up for easy, Whitney-Houston-themed ridicule, I'm here to say that the children are our future, and that childhood in the Gaza Strip -- a radicalized, blinkered, deprived existence, according to Lawrence Wright's humane report for The New Yorker -- bodes very badly for the future of peace. Wright, for instance, catches readers up on the story line of a notorious...
Lawrence Wright in The New Yorker: In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip, there is a small crossing station not far from a kibbutz named Kerem Shalom. A guard tower looms over the flat, scrubby...
The 50 best things to eat in the world, and where to eat them - From cake, steak and tapas, to oysters, chicken and burgers, Killian Fox roamed the world to find the 50 best things to eat and the best places to eat them in, with a little help from professionals like Raymond Blanc, Michel Roux, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray Captives - What really happened during the Israeli attacks? by Lawrence Wright...
The cycle of outrage in Israel and Gaza ON SEPTEMBER 11th 2001, a bunch of terrorists staged a spectacular attack that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, and over the subsequent couple of years Americans overwhelmed by entirely legitimate rage went a bit crazy and backed a series of very bad foreign-policy decisions. In the course of his excellent New Yorker article explaining Israel's military...
Lawrence Wright looks at life in Gaza, especially during the 2008 Israeli attacks, through the eyes of its young people. While Israel fights for the return of captured young soldier Gilad Shalit , many locals feel they are no less imprisoned.
Another post on Israel and its Gaza attacks. Lawrence Wright in the New Yorker: In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip, there is a small crossing station not far from a kibbutz named Kerem Shalom. A guard tower looms over the flat, scrubby buffer zone. Gaza never extends more than seven [...]
matthew yglesias highlights the description of living conditions in the gaza strip from lawrence wright's new yorker piece.i'm really curious what the justification for the ban on toys is. i suspect there isn't one. and the ice cream factory that was bombed or bulldozed.if you create conditions like this, you're asking for people to react violently to you. anyone would in those circumstances. i
Up Against A Wall of Debt -- Robert Samuelson, Real Clear Politics WASHINGTON -- The idea that the government of a major advanced country would default on its debt -- that is, tell lenders that it won't repay them all they're owed -- was, until recently, a preposterous proposition. Argentina and Russia have stiffed their creditors, but surely the likes of the United States, Japan or Great Britain wouldn't....
A young man looks for his mother’s grave in a cemetery in Beit Lehia that was destroyed by tanks in January. Israel’s three-week-long attack has given rise to charges of war crimes on both sides. Photograph by Christian Als. What really happened during the Israeli attacks? by Lawrence Wright November 9, 2009 New Yorker In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip, there...
In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip, there is a small crossing station not far from a kibbutz named Kerem Shalom. A guard tower looms over the flat, scrubby buffer zone. Gaza never extends more than seven miles wide, and the guards in the tower . . .
Another good al-Jazeera English feature, here on the “long war” between al-Qaeda and, well, just about everyone else. Panel of commentators includes Lawrence Wright, Robert Pape, Gen. Richard Myers, and Mark Sageman. Part II after the fold.
A few nights ago, I attended a lecture at UCSD given by Scott Appleby entitled "What Can Muslims & Catholics Teach One Another & the World." As a Catholic, it was an incredibly depressing and embarrassing talk. Appleby is a history professor of some note at Notre Dame. Notre Dame being the foremost Catholic educational institution in the country, I was hoping for a lot more than I...
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