January 2013

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• Israel-Palestine

  Israelis dont need a lecture on the Holocaust from you, David Ward

  01.28.13 | Permalink | 4,426 Comments

  This one’s from The Telegraph International Holocaust Memorial Day, which fell yesterday on the 68th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, is an opportunity to remember the victims of the most horrific mass murder in history. Its other main purpose is to provide an annual occasion for witless public figures to score moral own goals [...]

• Israel-Palestine

  Amos Oz on the beauty of compromise

  01.28.13 | Permalink | 7,978 Comments

  When the debate around the Israel-Palestine conflict begins to weary me with its vitriol and polarisation, I sometimes restore myself to sanity by re-reading a beautiful essay by the great Israeli author Amos Oz. It’s called ‘Between Right and Right’, and it appears in a little booklet which was republished last year as How to [...]

• Other stuff

  Private renting isn’t working – here’s how to change it

  01.04.13 | Permalink | 4,753 Comments

  (from The Telegaph) Every day millions of Britons travel home from work, walk through someone else’s front door, and go to sleep in a house that isn’t theirs. This is literally true: 8.5 million people in England now rent, and that number is soaring. But it also describes how renting from a private landlord often feels. [...]

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