History and culture

 Lia  Tarachansky presents the Nakba from the unusual viewpoint of its perpetrators and the ‘inheritors’ of its stolen booty- the land of Palestine. The protagonists are Tarachansky, who, herself, is an ex-settler from Israel’s largest illegal colony, Ariel,  Eitan Bronstein founder of Zochrot and Palmach veterans, Tivka Honig-Parnass and Amnon Noiman. Amnon’s struggle to come out of the torture chamber of silent guilt is vivid and (grudgingly) brave.

 

 

 
Image (Nigeria) – Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked three villages in Nigeria, killing 48 people.  Rescuers carry a body recovered from a shop burned by car bombs in Jos’s terminus market. Most of the victims were women and children. Photograph: AFP/Getty
 
From another US Embassy Cable released by Wikileaks we find:

 This anti-goyim, supremacist, racist, genocidal Judaic ideology had developed and imprinted a severe case of paranoid complex deep in the collective psyche of Jews, whose anti-goyim hate, treachery, unethical and immoral dealings produced a reactionary collective international anti-Jewish sentiment. Sorry Mr. Dershowitz it is the anti-goyimism in the Jewish collective psyche, not the anti-Semitism, that is the disease of the soul.

 

 
by PATRICK COCKBURN                          Counterpunch
(Damascus) - Islamic fundamentalists in Syria have started to destroy archaeological treasures such as Byzantine mosaics and Greek and Roman statues because their portrayal of human beings is contrary to their religious beliefs.

By Lillian Rosengarten
Dedicated to the memory of Paul Celan.