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The Israeli Ambassador’s response to the UN’s resolution on the fence, from Aish.com. Mr. President, For years, if not decades, this Assembly has entertained the Palestinian representative’s attempts to manufacture a virtual reality. An alternate world in which there is but one victim and one villain, in which there are Palestinian rights but no Palestinian … Continue reading The Israeli Ambassador's response, in full
One must have a mind of winterTo regard the frost and the boughsOf the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long timeTo behold the junipers shagged with ice,The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun; and not to thinkOf any misery in the sound of the wind,In the sound … Continue reading The Snow Man
One of the last nights that I’ll spend here in my room in M and C’s house. I will miss having a courtyard. I will miss jackdaws instead of crows. I will miss the goats in the neighborhood, and the chickens and the cats and the pony. Not so much the roosters, though. Nor the … Continue reading Jaffa, almost midnight
A rattlesnake that doesn’t bite teaches you nothing. — Jessamyn West
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