Monday, December 28, 2009

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According to the effects of a peculiarly strong eschatological current of Gaian sized proportions, I was recently conveyed to Mexican Maya country. I was there in the role of scriptwriter for Earth 2.0, a paradigm shifting movie documentary due for theatrical release some time in 2012. At one point the core Earth 2.0 team visited a splendid Mayan archaeological site known as Ek Balam where the vibe was remarkably serene. Whilst we were there, we took the opportunity to film legendary author Graham Hancock in front of some Mayan architectural remains (he was in the vicinity as part of a 2012 conference). After being informed of the essential function of the Earth 2.0 movie, Graham said some really fantastic things to camera -- particularly with regard to the spiritual and cultural importance of ayahuasca and how heads of state ought to be required to take such strong medicine before assuming office. Such a bold idea was just the sort of thing that Earth 2.0 will be promoting.












Knowing only too well the eco-shamanic value of psychedelic plants and fungi, my consciousness felt suddenly elevated as I watched Graham deliver his uncontrived heartfelt words. The scene really lit up. A beautiful rainforest bird began to sing. A lovely yellow butterfly flew past him. And then, strangest of all, a large moth landed on a tree near me. It had perfect camouflage and was extremely difficult to see against the background bark. But it would periodically open up its wings slightly such that it became visible. This camouflaged moth really amazed me because, just the day before, we had been filming Guide to 2012 author Mark Heley at Coba (another Mayan site). While we were filming him, this large and extraordinary lizard appeared high up on a pyramid directly behind him. Its colour matched the stone so perfectly that when it stopped moving it was totally invisible. I was transfixed. It was like a mythological psychedelic hallucination, as if a primeval dragon made of stone was appearing and disappearing. At one point it moved its head purposefully up and down -- in the manner of stylised nods. Then, after it stopped moving, it blended in perfectly with the stone steps and became, like the moth, totally invisible.





So, the appearance of the camouflaged giant lizard along with the camouflaged moth got me thinking about certain hidden aspects, or hidden dimensions, of Nature. To be sure, Graham Hancock said a few things along these lines -- pertaining to those otherwise occluded spiritual dimensions accessible through the judicious use of psychedelic plants. In other words then, the natural synchronistic appearance (and disappearance!) of the moth and the lizard made me feel privy to a lesson pertaining to Nature’s secret hidden face, a face that can, of course, choose to reveal itself.
This reminds of something Philip K. Dick once alluded to in his book VALIS. He wrote about the Zebra principle. The idea is that the sophisticated mimicry we find, say, in the insect world (where an insect might look exactly like a leaf), might also exist on a higher level or on a higher scale. Which is to say that some kind of higher intelligence may be present in the world but be hidden to us through a cunning sort of mimicry. In VALIS, Dick writes:



“What if a high form of sentient mimicry existed -- such a high form that no human (or few humans) had detected it? What if it could only be detected if it wanted to be detected? Which is to say, not truly detected at all, since under these circumstances it had advanced out of its camouflaged state to disclose itself. "Disclose" might in this case equal "theophany." The astonished human being would say, I saw God; whereas in fact he saw only a highly evolved ultra-terrestrial life form, a UTL, or an extra-terrestrial life form (an ETL) which had come here at some time in the past, and perhaps, as Fat conjectured, had slumbered for nearly two thousand years in dormant seed form as living information in the codices at Nag Hammadi, which explained why reports of its existence had broken off abruptly around 70 A.D.”
Well, I don’t really want to plunge into PKD’s immense body of lively Gnostic speculation -- suffice it to say that I find the idea of a hidden dimension of higher intelligence appealing, especially if such an intelligence is bound up with Nature/Gaia and is not part of some ET scenario. This, in fact, is the gist of my work which revolves around the concept of natural intelligence. The idea is that Nature is a system of self-organising intelligence which finds overt expression through the evolution of organismic bio-logic. I have long suspected that not only is Nature smart but that Nature is ultra-smart, that Nature has dimensions of purpose and intelligence undreamed of in conventional philosophies. I would even suggest that the root cause of synchronicity lies with the naturally intelligent coherency that binds together the whole of Nature. Everything really is connected. Well, not just connected but moving and flowing in a deliberately constructive way whereby more and more meaning and insight unfolds.






For me, the realisation that Nature is an unfolding coherent flow of intelligence really hits home under the auspicious influence of psilocybin -- but this can also be divined whenever we look upon the world with open minds and open hearts, when we see the world without the usual mechanical associations, when we see the world, as Aldous Huxley said, without utilitarian eyes. I mean, Nature really is fantastic and replete with a staggering engineering prowess. Think of your body -- 100 trillion cells bound together into one single coherency -- and then think of your cortex able to embody consciousness and be boggled by such a fact! Nature is genius! Evolution is brilliant! Bio-logic is incredible!


More to the point, it seems likely that there must be some function, or agenda, to natural intelligence, that the various forces of Nature are verily forcing something profound to eventually happen. And maybe, for some reason pertaining to a gradual process of awakening perhaps, Nature’s essential agenda is hidden -- or at least that it is something that we have hitherto been blind to. After all, natural intelligence is not taught in schools. Everyone has heard of AI but no-one is talking about NI. Human intelligence is always raved about, whereas Nature’s nifty information gaining processes (like biological evolution) are unsung. Nobel prizes are awarded to scientists who uncover Nature’s engineering acumen, whereas Nature is awarded no prizes. We big up our technology whereas the technology of life itself (DNA, protein nanotech, etc) is just taken for granted. And if we do see something of significance to life and consciousness, then a supernatural God is often invoked.
I thus believe that the timely appearance of the hidden tree moth and the hidden pyramid lizard were part of a synchronistic and tutorial flow of information. That they appeared during Earth 2.0 filming sessions where spiritual awakening was being discussed seems significant -- and this applies whether the synchronicity was part of Gaia, part of Valis, part of Zebra or simply a projection of my subconscious mind.
In The Psilocybin Solution (hopefully to be published soon) I write that reality is made of language-like self-organising information. If so, then messages, themes and plots can both fold and unfold within the environment. Indeed, if Gaia is akin to a self-writing self-righting story, then events can fall into place that have various layers of semantic content such that you can literally read into, and be informed by, the natural world. Event patterns can be textual; sub-texts and lessons can be perceived and learned. But hey, I am not one to gossip…
To be continued…




Loneliness





Loneliness has long been associated with a variety of debilitating mental and physical diseases. Now, a new study reveals that it has the potential to spread as rapidly as the common cold throughout groups of friends, family, etc. A team of researchers from Harvard, The University of Chicago, and The University of California recently published these findings in, “Alone in the Crowd: The Structure and Spread of Loneliness in a Large Social Network.”
Using data collected from the Framingham Heart and Offspring studies that began in 1948 and span over three generations of participants, researchers were better able understand the spread of loneliness via traditional social networks. The researchers explain that the results of their study indicate loneliness occurs in clusters, extends up to three degrees of separation, is disproportionately represented at the periphery of social networks, and spreads through a contagious process.
People who suffer from feelings of loneliness tend to associate and identify with other lonely people. When one lonely person conveys their outlook of isolation to another, they are influencing the other to reflect similar views on a third potentially lonely party. It's a vicious cycle--yet contrary to what being lonely implies, the lonely person is not isolated--rather their emotions are intimately connected to the emotions of others. By resigning themselves to a position of loneliness, they push themselves into the outer reaches of their social network and unknowingly slowly catalyze others they have shared their views with to follow suit.

Thumbnail Image: "Fence" by John Steven Fernandez on Flickr courtesy of Creative Commons lisencing.
Main Image: "I'm goin' down" by Bombardier on Flickr courtesy of Creative Commons license.

Carlos Telleldín be retried on charges relating to his role in the preparation of the AMIA massacre

http://blog.z-word.com/2009/12/amia-suspect-to-be-retried/



AMIA Suspect to Be Retried
Published
by
Eamonn McDonagh
on December 16, 2009
in AMIA massacre, Argentina and Iran.
A small step towards justice in the AMIA case was taken yesterday when the Cámara Nacional de Casación Penal (Argentina’s final criminal appeal court) ordered that
AMIA Suspect to Be Retried
Published
by
Eamonn McDonagh
on December 16, 2009
in AMIA massacre, Argentina and Iran.
A small step towards justice in the AMIA case was taken yesterday when the Cámara Nacional de Casación Penal (Argentina’s final criminal appeal court) ordered that Carlos Telleldín be retried on charges relating to his role in the preparation of the AMIA massacre. The decision arises from a previous Supreme Court decision which held that the early findings of the initial investigation into the atrocity are legally valid.
Telleldín is a used car dealer who also fenced stolen vehicles. He is suspected of having supplied the Renault Trafic van that the terrorists used to carry the bomb into the AMIA building. In 2004, after having spent eight years on remand, he and 21 former police officers were acquitted on all charges relating to the attack. The court ruled that the investigating Juan José Galeano, the investigating judge, had committed so many irregularities as to make it impossible to convict anyone.
Nobody imagines that either Telleldín or his corrupt friends in the police planned the attack themselves. Those responsible for that are in Iran and enjoy the protection of the Iranian government. One of the wanted men is currently that nation’s defense minister. Notwithstanding the annual UN farce, this isn’t a situation which bothers the Argentine government much. be retried on charges relating to his role in the preparation of the AMIA massacre. The decision arises from a previous Supreme Court decision which held that the early findings of the initial investigation into the atrocity are legally valid.
Telleldín is a used car dealer who also fenced stolen vehicles. He is suspected of having supplied the Renault Trafic van that the terrorists used to carry the bomb into the AMIA building. In 2004, after having spent eight years on remand, he and 21 former police officers were acquitted on all charges relating to the attack. The court ruled that the investigating Juan José Galeano, the investigating judge, had committed so many irregularities as to make it impossible to convict anyone.
Nobody imagines that either Telleldín or his corrupt friends in the police planned the attack themselves. Those responsible for that are in Iran and enjoy the protection of the Iranian government. One of the wanted men is currently that nation’s defense minister. Notwithstanding the annual UN farce, this isn’t a situation which bothers the Argentine government much.

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Petroglyphs (also called rock engravings) are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images. Petroglyphs are found world-wide, and are often (but not always) associated with prehistoric peoples. The word comes from the Greek words petros meaning "stone" and glyphein meaning "to carve" (it was originally coined in French as pétroglyphe).
The term petroglyph should not be confused with pictograph, which is an image drawn or painted on a rock face. Both types of image belong to the wider and more general category of rock art. Petroforms, or patterns and shapes made by many large rocks and boulders over the ground, are also quite different. Inukshuks are also unique, and found only in the Arctic (except for reproductions and imitations built in more southerly latitudes).











History

Composite image of petroglyphs from Scandinavia (Häljesta, Västmanland in Sweden). Nordic Bronze Age. The glyphs have been painted to make them more visible.

A petroglyph of a caravan of bighorn sheep near Moab, Utah, USA; a common theme in glyphs from the desert southwest
The oldest petroglyphs are dated to approximately the Neolithic and late Upper Paleolithic boundary, about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, if not earlier (Kamyana Mohyla). Around 7,000 to 9,000 years ago, other precursors of writing systems, such as pictographs and ideograms, began to appear. Petroglyphs were still common though, and some cultures continued using them much longer, even until contact with Western culture was made in the 20th century. Petroglyphs have been found in all parts of the globe except Antarctica with highest concentrations in parts of Africa, Scandinavia, Siberia, southwestern North America and Australia





Interpretation
There are many theories to explain their purpose, depending on their location, age, and the type of image. Some petroglyphs are thought to be astronomical markers, maps, and other forms of symbolic communication, including a form of "pre-writing". Petroglyph maps may show trails, symbols communicating time and distances traveled, as well as the local terrain in the form of rivers, landforms and other geographic features. A petroglyph that represents a landform or the surrounding terrian is known as a Geocontourglyph. They might also have been a by-product of other rituals: sites in India, for example, have been identified as musical instruments or "rock gongs". [1]
Some petroglyph images probably had deep cultural and religious significance for the societies that created them; in many cases this significance remains for their descendants. Many petroglyphs are thought to represent some kind of not-yet-fully understood symbolic or ritual language. Later glyphs from the Nordic Bronze Age in Scandinavia seem to refer to some form of territorial boundary between tribes, in addition to possible religious meanings. It also appears that local or regional dialects from similar or neighboring peoples exist. The Siberian inscriptions almost look like some early form of runes, although there is not thought to be any relationship between them. They are not yet well understood.
Some researchers have noticed the resemblance of different styles of petroglyphs across different continents; while it is expected that all people would be inspired by their surroundings, it is harder to explain the common styles. This could be mere coincidence, an indication that certain groups of people migrated widely from some initial common area, or indication of a common origin. In 1853 George Tate read a paper to the Berwick Naturalists' Club at which a Mr John Collingwood Bruce agreed that the carvings had "... a common origin, and indicate a symbolic meaning, representing some popular thought." [2] In his cataloguing of Scottish rock art, Ronald Morris summarised 104 different theories on their interpretation. [3].
Other, more controversial, explanations are grounded in Jungian psychology and the views of Mircea Eliade. According to these theories it is possible that the similarity of petroglyphs (and other atavistic or archetypal symbols) from different cultures and continents is a result of the genetically inherited structure of the human brain.
Other theories suggest that petroglyphs were made by
shamans in an altered state of consciousness[4], perhaps induced by the use of natural hallucinogens. Many of the geometric patterns (known as form constants) which recur in petroglyphs and cave paintings have been shown[by whom?] to be "hard-wired" into the human brain; they frequently occur in visual disturbances and hallucinations brought on by drugs, migraine and other stimuli.
Present-day links between shamanism and rock-art amongst the San people of the Kalahari desert have been studied by the Rock Art Research Institute (RARI) of the University of the Witwatersrand [1]. Though the San people's artworks are predominantly paintings, the beliefs behind them can perhaps be used as a basis for understanding other types of rock art, including petroglyphs. To quote from the RARI website:
Using knowledge of San beliefs, researchers have shown that the art played a fundamental part in the religious lives of its San painters. The art captured things from the San’s world behind the rock-face: the other world inhabited by spirit creatures, to which dancers could travel in animal form, and where people of ecstasy could draw power and bring it back for healing, rain-making and capturing the game












List of petroglyph sites
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Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria
Bidzar, Cameroon
Bambari, Lengo and Bangassou in the south of the Central African Republic; Bwale in the west
Niola Doa, Chad
The Niari River valley in the Congo, 250 km south west of Brazzaville
Ogooue River Valley, Gabon
Akakus, Libya
Jebel Uweinat, Libya
The Draa River valley in Morocco
Twyfelfontein, Namibia
Life-size giraffe carvings on Dabous Rock, Air Mountains, Niger
Wadi Hammamat in Qift, Egypt many carvings and inscriptions dating from before the earliest Egyptian Dynasties to the modern era, including the only painted petroglyph known from the Eastern Desert and drawings of Egyptian reed boats dated to 4000 BCE
Driekops Eiland near Kimberley, South Africa[5]
ǀXam and ǂKhomani heartland in the Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa
Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre near Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa
Nyambwezi Falls in the north-west province of Zambia.










































































































In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) philosopher, founding 'father' and 3rd US president





























Articles & Papersabout Rock Art

Petroglyph & Pictograph Sites Click on the site name to view images from that site. I update pictures & descriptions periodically and add new rock art sites and interesting articles every month or so. Be sure to bookmark this page and come back and visit us again.



Myth, Ritual and Rock ArtBy: Garfinkel, Austin, Earle and Williams


Culture Crisis and Rock Art IntensificationBy: A. Garfinkel, G. Marcom and R. Schiffman

Sears Point Patayan and Hohokam petroglyphs along the Gila River east of Yuma, Arizona. 10 photographs November 2009
The Coso Sheep Cult of Eastern CaliforniaBy: Alan Garfinkel

Gold Butte Anasazi, Patayan and Southern Paiute petroglyphs from the red rock district of southeast Nevada. 9 photographs July 2009
Death Valley's Other Moving RocksBy: Geron Marcom

Wood's Wash Petroglyphs and some pictographs from the western Lanfair Valley area, Mojave Desert, California. 12 photographs May 2009
The Stahl Site PetroglyphsBy: Donald Austin

Chuckwalla Spring A petroglyph site in a small canyon on the eastern flank of the Panamint Mountain Range, California. 10 photographs March 2009
Dating the Coso Range Projectile Point PetroglyphsBy: Alan Garfinkel & J. Kenneth Pringle

Black Rock Well A petroglyph site in the hills below the Saline Valley, near Panamint Springs, California. 11 photographs December 2008


Painted Rock Chumash and Yokut pictographs at a Carrizo Plain, California, rock art site. 12 photographs June 2008
In the U.S. NEWS

Bates Well A small petroglyph site located near an old pioneer homestead in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona. 7 Photographs May 2008


Old Woman Cave Pictographs & petroglyphs at a shaman's cave in the Old Woman Mountains, eastern Mojave Desert, California. 12 Photographs December 2007


Anasazi Ridge A Virgin River Anasazi petroglyph site near St. George, Utah.10 photographs June 2007
Tracking the makers of Gold Butte's petroglyphsBy: David Bly February 2010 new window

Sheep Canyon Petroglyphs in the Coso Range, near Ridgecrest, California.10 photographs May 2007
Reprieve for Rock ArtBy: Emily Sharpe January 2010 new window

Little Blair Valley A Kumeyaay girls ceremonial pictograph site in the Anza Borrego Desert, California. 10 photographs April 2007
Rock art redefines 'ancient'By: David Page January 2010 new window

Lower Butler Wash A Basketmaker Anasazi petroglyph site on the San Juan River, Utah.12 photographs December 2006
Ancient road signsBy: John Bulger December 2009 new window

Picture Canyon A Mohave rock art site near the Colorado River in Needles, California. 9 Photographs November 2006












What is rock art?In general, there are three basic categories:
Petroglyphs
are carved, pecked, chipped or abraded into stone. The outer patina covered surface of the parent stone is removed to expose the usually lighter colored stone underneath. Some stone is better suited to petroglyph making than others. Stone that is very hard or contains a lot of quartz does not work well for petroglyph making; however, a nice desert varnished basalt usually works very well. Pictographs are painted onto stone and are much more fragile than petroglyphs. The paint is a mineral or vegetal substance combined with some sort of binder like fat residue or blood. If the paint was not properly mixed with a binder it would not adhere well to the stone and the pictograph would quickly flake away. Pictographs were painted in locations where they would be protected from the elements: in caves, alcoves, under ledges and overhangs.
Intaglios are large ground drawings created by removing the pebbles that make up desert pavement. Intaglios are usually in the outline of animals (zoomorphs) or human-like figures (anthropomorphs). Intaglios are found on mesas along the Colorado River more so than in other places.
External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Petroglyphs
Petroglyphs from Galicia, Spain
Petroglyphs of the Lesser Antilles
British Rock Art Collection (BRAC)
Dampier petroglyphs
Costa Rican city of Guayabo petroglyphs
Reports of concerns for Australia's heritage
Petroglyph Provincial Park Official Website
Northumberland Rock Art
Debunking of Ogam theory about West Virginia petroglyphs
A rival interpretation of the West Virginia petroglyphs
Kyrgyz petroglyphs
Cholpon-Ata petroglyphs, Kyrgyzstan
Sarmish-Say petroglyphs
Giraffe carvings on Dabous Rock, Air Mountains, Niger
Rock engraving sites in Central Africa
Shamanism and rock art among the San people of the Kalahari
Rock Art Research Institute website (Witwatersrand)
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic Database Bancroft Library's 14000+ citations to rock art literature.
Bradshaw Foundation
Latin American rock art articles and rock art researchers directory
Dolmenes y megalitos del mundo
Menhires del mundo
Petroglyphs in Peru
How to find La Silla petroglyphs
Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre
McGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa
Oiseau Rock Petroglyphs on the Ottawa River, Canada
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BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING



Further reading
Beckensall, Stan and Laurie, Tim, Prehistoric Rock Art of County Durham, Swaledale and Wensleydale, County Durham Books, 1998 ISBN 1-897585-45-4
Beckensall, Stan, Prehistoric Rock Art in Northumberland, Tempus Publishing, 2001 ISBN 0-7524-1945-5

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http://www.autohire-ireland.com/historicbuildings.html
gallarus oratory, an early christian church, established between the 6th and 9th century. located on the dingle peninsula, county kerry, ireland. may 2001

I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us. I would like an abundance of peace. I would like full vessels of charity. I would like rich treasures of mercy. I would like cheerfulness to preside over all.
Saint Brigid of Ireland (c. 451 – 525) one of the three patron saints of Ireland
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The Gallarus Oratory (Irish: Séipéilín Ghallarais, literally "The Church of the Place of the Foreigners"[1]) is believed to be an early Christian church located on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. Though the building is believed to have been built between the 6th century and 9th century, some believe it could have been built as late as the 12th century because the east window has a rounded top made of two carved stones (not a true arch). According to local legend, if a person climbs out of the oratory via the window, their soul will be cleansed.[citation needed]
As early as the 6th century, monastic settlements were being built in remote areas of Ireland. This small
oratory, built without mortar, uses corbel vaulting, a technique developed by Neolithic tomb-makers. It is dimly lit, with only a tiny window opposite the entrance door. Shaped like an upturned boat, this miniature church overlooks the harbour at Ard na Caithne (formerly also called Smerwick) on the Dingle Peninsula.
It is a
corbelled-roofed building, built with the stones being laid at a slight angle, lower on the outside than on the inside, thus allowing rainwater to run off. This design has kept the interior relatively dry despite the lack of mortaring, allowing the building to remain in excellent condition.
"In Gallarus Oratory" (1969) is a poem written by
Seamus Heaney.
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Gallarus Oratory: (Between Dingle and Bellyferriter): This early Christian church was built in either the 8th or 9th century. It is shaped like an upturned boat. It was built with dry stones without mortar, each stone overlapping slightly as the level rises. When they meet, a large flat stone is placed on top, the capstone. This gives a perfectly dry interior, which has withstood the elements for over 1200 years. The name Gallarus means ‘residence of the foreigner, and possibly refers to the many pilgrims who travelled to this area in early Christian and medieval times.
Kilmalkedar Church (near Ballydavid): Ruins of a 12th century church that was once part of a complex of religious buildings. In the grounds is an Ogham stone, pierced by a hole. According to a local legend those who climb in or out the window three times and run around the building will be guaranteed a place in Heaven.
The Skelligs: (Near Valentia Island): Skellig Michael or Great Skellig is an inhospital piece of rock rising out of the Atlantic Ocean. A stairway leads to an early Christian monastery. During the 6th century Saint Fionán founded his monastery here. There are two boat-shaped oratories, six corbelled stone beehive huts and stone built terraces. Why the monks choose such an inhospitable place is a mystery. They collected rainwater by channelling it through hand-cut ducts into five storage wells, which still function today. They managed to grow peas, beans, celery, onions, parsnips, carrots and medicinal plants. They traded birds?eggs, feathers and seal meat with passing boats in return for animal skins and tools. Today, thousands of sea birds nest and breed on the high cliffs. They are the only residents.
The Skellig Hereitage Centre (Portmagee ?where the bridge meets the island. Tel: 066 9476306) tells the story of the Skelligs and will include a boat trip lasting 1? hours. Boats do not dock on islands. There are boat trips available that dock. These depart from Portmagee Pier at 11am and return around 4pm, April-September providing the sea is not too rough.

Sag in Oratory roof

Oratory front view

Oratory door opening
[
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^ Travel in Ireland: Churches, Cathedrals and Holy Places
O'Sullivan, Aidan (September 1998). Appreciation and History of Art. Gill & Macmillan Ltd.
ISBN 0-7171-1666-2.
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Information about Gallarus Visitor Centre
Gallarus Oratory's page at the Cork Kerry Tourism Bureau
Several Photos of the Gallarus Oratory at britannia-picture.com
Coordinates: 52°10′21″N 10°20′58″W / 52.1725°N 10.34944°W / 52.1725; -10.34944
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Poe's X-ing a Paragrab.

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This week's selection is the short story X-ing a Paragrab. You can read the full text here. In today's story, we find an editor, Mr. B., who decided to move from The East to The West, because he thought the found a city who did not have an editor. When he arrived, he found he was wrong - there was already a newspaper, under the direction of a John Smith. Mr. B., not to be deterred, set up his own newspaper. One day, John Smith wrote a scathing editorial about the quality of Mr. B.'s work, stating he couldn't write a paragraph without an "Oh!".Mr. B., wanting to get him back, proceeded to write a paragraph in which EVERY WORD contained an "O". However, when his copy-writer went to set up the paragraph, he realized that every "o" was gone. Mortified, he decided he had to substitute the "o"s with "x"s, making the paragraph look like this:"Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn't crxw, anxther time, befxre yxu're xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu're xut? Xh, nx, nx! sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, — gx! Yxu wxnt? Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw! sx gx at xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh, Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn't gx yxu're nx hxmx — nx! Yxu're xnly a fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw — cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn't frxwn sx — dxn't! Dxn't hxllx, nxr hxwl, nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw, — but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!"Naturally, when this published Mr. B. had disappeared.I honestly don't even know what to say about this story. It's meant to be humorous, but it's well documented that Poe's sense of humor is not the same as mine. I can see it might possibly be a bit of poking fun at the editors of Poe's day, but I don't know enough history to say that definitively. Maybe it's just a nonsense tale - as such, it works beautifully.Poe Fridays is hosted by Kristen at WeBeReading.











X-ING A PARAGRAB.
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AS it is well known that the “wise men” came “from the East,” and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head was a wise man; and if collateral proof of the matter be needed, here we have it — Mr. B. was an editor. Irascibility was his sole foible; for in fact the obstinacy of which men accused him was anything but his foible, since he justly considered it his forte. It was his strong point — his virtue; and it would have required all the logic of a Brownson to convince him that it was “anything else.”
I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man; and the only occasion on which he did not prove infallible, was when, abandoning that legitimate home for all wise men, the East, he migrated to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West.
I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular section of the country. In establishing “The Tea-Pot,” he expected to have the field all to himself. I feel confident he never would have dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who, for many years, had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the “Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Gazette.” It was solely, therefore, on account of having been misinformed, that Mr. Bullet-head found ­[page 261:] himself in Alex —— suppose we call it Nopolis, “for short” — but, as he did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for obst — for firmness, and remain. So remain he did; and he did more; he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly opposite to that of the “Gazette,” and, on the third morning after his arrival, issued the first number of “The Alexan” — that is to say, of “The Nopolis Tea-Pot:” — as nearly as I can recollect, this was the name of the new paper.
The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant — not to say severe. It was especially bitter about things in general — and as for the editor of “The Gazette,” he was torn all to pieces in particular. Some of Bullet-head’s remarks were really so fiery that I have always, since that time, been forced to look upon John Smith, who is still alive, in the light of a salamander. I cannot pretend to give all the [[“]]Tea-pot’s[[”]] paragraphs verbatim, but one of them run [[runs]] thus:
“Oh, yes! — Oh [[,]] we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way is a genius — O [[Oh]], my! Oh, goodness, gracious! — what is this world coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!’
A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every one awaited, with heartfelt anxiety, the reply of the dignified Smith. Next morning it appeared, as follows:
“We quote from ‘The Tea-Pot’ of yesterday the subjoined paragraph: — ‘Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses!’ Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the vagabond can write a word that hasn’t an O in it. Wonder if this O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a great hurry. Wonder if he O’s as much there as he does here? ‘O! it is pitiful.’”
The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations, I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle, however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon his integrity as one might have imagined. It ­[page 262:] was the sneer at his style that drove him to desperation. What! — he [[,]] Touch-and-go Bullet-head! — not able to write a word without an O in it! He would soon let the jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let him see how much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go Bullet-head, of Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that he, Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole paragraph — ay! a whole article — in which that contemptible vowel should not once — not even once — make its appearance. But no; — that would be yielding a point to the said John Smith. He, Bullet-head, would make no alteration in his style, to suit the caprices of any Mr. Smith in Christendom. Perish so vile a thought! The O forever! He would persist in the O. He would be as O-wy as O-wy could be.
Burning with the chivalry of this determination, the great Touch-and-go, in the next “Tea-Pot,” came out merely with this simple but resolute paragraph, in reference to this unhappy affair:
“The editor of the ‘Tea-Pot’ has the honor of advising the editor of ‘The Gazette’ that he, (the ‘Tea-Pot’,) will take an opportunity in to-morrow morning’s paper, of convincing him, (the ‘Gazette,’) that he, (the ‘Tea-Pot,’) both can and will be his own master, as regards style; — he, (the ‘Tea-pot,’) intending to show him, (the ‘Gazette,’) the supreme, and indeed the withering contempt with which the criticism of him, (the ‘Gazette,’) inspires the independent bosom of him, (the ‘Tea-Pot,’) by composing for the especial gratification (?) of him, (the ‘Gazette,’) a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful vowel — the emblem of Eternity — yet so offensive to the hyper-exquisite delicacy of him, (the ‘Gazette,’) shall most certainly not be avoided by his (the ‘Gazette’s’) most obedient, humble servant, the ‘Tea-pot.’’so much for Buckingham!’ “
In fulfilment of the awful threat thus darkly intimated rather than decidedly enunciated, the great Bullet-head, turning a deaf ear to all entreaties for “copy,” and simply requesting his foreman to “go to the d —— l,” when he (the foreman) assured him (the “Tea-pot”!) that it was high time to “go to press:” turning a deaf ear to everything, I say, the great Bullet-head sat up until ­[page 263:] day-break, consuming the midnight oil, and absorbed in the composition of the really unparalleled paragraph, which follows:
“So ho, John! how now? Told you so, you know. Don’t crow, another time, before you’re out of the woods! Does your mother know you’re out? Oh, no, no! — so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl, — go! You wont? Oh, poh, poh, John, don’t do so! You’ve got to go, you know! So go at once, and don’t go slow; for nobody owns you here, you know. Oh, John, John, if you don’t go you’re no homo — no! You’re only a fowl, an owl; a cow, a sow; a doll, a poll; a poor, old, good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a Concord bog. Cool, now — cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your crowing, old cock! Don’t frown so — don’t! Don’t hollo, nor howl, nor growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look! Told you so, you know — but stop rolling your goose of an old poll about so, and go and drown your sorrows in a bowl!”
Exhausted, very naturally, by so stupendous an effort, the great Touch-and-go could attend to nothing farther that night. Firmly, composedly, yet with an air of conscious power, he handed his MS. to the devil in waiting, and then, walking leisurely home, retired, with ineffable dignity, to bed.
Meantime the devil to whom the copy was entrusted, ran up stairs to his “case,” in an unutterable hurry, and forthwith made a commencement at “setting” the MS. “up.”
In the first place, of course, — as the opening word was “So” — he made a plunge into the capital S hole and came out in triumph with a capital S. Elated by this success, he immediately threw himself upon the little-o box with a blindfold impetuosity — but who shall describe his horror when his fingers came up without the anticipated letter in their clutch? who shall paint his astonishment and rage at perceiving, as he rubbed his knuckles, that he had been only thumping them to no purpose, against the bottom of an empty box. Not a single little-o was in the little-o hole; and, glancing fearfully at the capital-O partition, he found that, to his extreme terror, in a precisely similar predicament. Awe-stricken, his first impulse was to rush to the foreman.
“Sir!” said he, gasping for breath, “I can’t never set up nothing without no o’s.” ­[page 264:]
“What do you mean by that?” growled the foreman, who was in a very ill-humor [[ill humor]] at being kept up so late.
“Why, sir, there beant an o in the office, neither a big un nor a little un!”
“What — what the d — l has become of all that were in the case?”
“I don’t know, sir,” said the boy, “but one of them ere G’zette devils is bin prowling bout here all night, and I spect he’s gone and cabbaged em every one.”
“Dod rot him! I haven’t a doubt of it,” replied the foreman, getting purple with rage — “but I tell you what you do, Bob, that’s a good boy — you go over the first chance you get and hook every one of their i’s and (d — n them!) their izzards.”
“Jist so,” replied Bob, with a wink and a frown — “I’ll be into em, I’ll let em know a thing or two; but in de meantime, that ere paragrab? Mus go in to-night, you know — else there’ll be the d — l to pay, and —”
“And not a bit of pitch hot,” interrupted the foreman, with a deep sigh and an emphasis on the “bit.” “Is it a very long paragraph, Bob?”
“Shouldn’t call it a wery long paragrab,” said Bob.
“Ah, well, then! do the best you can with it! we must get to press,” said the foreman, who was over head and ears in work; “just stick in some other letter for o; nobody’s going to read the fellow’s trash, any how.”
“Wery well,” replied Bob, “here goes it!” and off he hurried to his case; muttering as he went: — “Considdeble vell, them ere expressions, perticcler for a man as doesn’t swar. So I’s to gouge out all their eyes, eh? and d —— n all their gizzards! Vell! this here’s the chap as is jist able for to do it.” The fact is, that although Bob was but twelve years old and four feet high, he was equal to any amount of fight, in a small way.
The exigency here described is by no means of rare occurrence in printing-offices; and I cannot tell how to account for it, but the fact is indisputable, that when the exigency does occur, it almost always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter deficient. The true reason, perhaps, is that x is rather the most superabundant letter in the cases, or at least was so in the old ­[page 265:] times — long enough to render the substitution in question an habitual thing with printers. As for Bob, he would have considered it heretical to employ any other character, in a case of this kind, than the x to which he had been accustomed.
“I shell have to x this ere paragrab,” said he to himself, as he read it over in astonishment, “but it’s jest about the awfulest o -wy paragrab I ever did see:” so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press it went x-ed.
Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by reading, in “The Tea-pot,” the following extraordinary leader:
“Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw. Dxn’t crxw, anxther time, befxre yxu’re xut xf the wxxds! Dxes yxur mxther knxw yxu’re xut? Xh, nx, nx! sx gx hxme at xnce, nxw, Jxhn, tx yxur xdixus xld wxxds xf Cxncxrd! Gx hxme tx yxur wxxds, xld xwl, — gx! Yxu wxnt? Xh, pxh, pxh, Jxhn, dxn’t dx sx! Yxu’ve gxt tx gx, yxu knxw! sx gx at xnce, and dxn’t gx slxw; fxr nxbxdy xwns yxu here, yxu knxw. Xh, Jxhn, Jxhn, Jxhn, if yxu dxn’t gx yxu’re nx hxmx — nx! Yxu’re xnly a fxwl, an xwl; a cxw, a sxw; a dxll, a pxll; a pxxr xld gxxd-fxr-nxthing-tx-nxbxdy lxg, dxg, hxg, xr frxg, cxme xut xf a Cxncxrd bxg. Cxxl, nxw — cxxl! Dx be cxxl, yxu fxxl! Nxne xf yxur crxwing, xld cxck! Dxn’t frxwn sx — dxn’t! Dxn’t hxllx, nxr hxwl, nxr grxwl, nxr bxw-wxw-wxw! Gxxd Lxrd, Jxhn, hxw yxu dx lxxk! Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw, — but stxp rxlling yxur gxxse xf an xld pxll abxut sx, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!”
The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical article, is not to be conceived. The first definite idea entertained by the populace was, that some diabolical treason lay concealed in the hieroglyphics; and there was a general rush to Bullet-head’s residence, for the purpose of riding him on a rail; but that gentleman was nowhere to be found. He had vanished, no one could tell how; and not even the ghost of him has ever been seen since.
Unable to discover its legitimate object, the popular fury at length subsided; leaving behind it, by way of sediment, quite a medley of opinion about this unhappy affair. ­[page 266:]
One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.
Another said that, indeed, Bullet-head had shown much X-uberance of fancy.
A third admitted him X-entric, but no more.
A fourth could only suppose it the Yankee’s design to X-press, in a general way, his X-asperation.
“Say, rather, to set an X-ample to posterity,” suggested a fifth.
That Bullet-head had been driven to an extremity [[X-tremity]], was clear to all; and in fact, since that editor could not be found, there was some talk about lynching the other one.
The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply, X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, everybody knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly observed), there was an unknown quantity of X.
The opinion of Bob, the devil (who kept dark “about his having X-ed the paragrab”), did not meet with so much attention as I think it deserved, although it was very openly and very fearlessly expressed. He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all, that it was a clear case, that [[“]]Mr. Bullet-head never could be persvaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas con tinually a-svigging o’ that ere blessed XXX ale, and, as a naiteral consekvence, it just [[jist]] puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in the X-treme.’ [[”]]

Israel's moral right to exist

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Exist-Moral-Defense-Israels/dp/1400032431/ref=cm_cr_dp_orig_subj

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This review is from: Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars (Paperback) In this phenomenal work,Yaakov Lozowick , the director of the archives at Yad Vashem,Israel's Holocaust Museum and the author of "Hitler's Bureucrats,The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil",embarks on both a moral evaluation of Israel's wars for survival,as well as an indictment on the bigots of the world,who deny tiny Israel's right to exist. As Cynthia Ozick describes so eloquently "The title alone - the scandal of calling into question a living nation's existence-ought to shame the prevaricators and defamers,whether they be professors in universities , media distorters,'peace activists' who justify terror,morally deformed intellectuals,self-decieving unconfessed haters,or merely the herd of the easily led" The introduction describes why the author,a lifelong liberal and peace activist,in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo process,and Arafat's launching of war of terror against Israel's populace,voted for Ariel Sharon of the center right Likud Party,traditionallly regarded as a hawk and hardliner(although his record as Prime Minister was to prove the opposite). Lozowick describes how former Prime Minster,the center left Ehud Barak, at Camp David 2000,offered the Palestinian Authority the whole of Gaza and almost all of the West Bank,(including most of East Jerusalem),and in response Arafat stormed out of the talks and launched a terror war against the Israeli people , in which thousands of Israeli Jews (mainly women and children) have been murdered,maimed, terrorized,widowed and orphaned. In response to Arab terror war against them, the Israeli people voted for Ariel Sharon , war hero who had been villified by Israel's enemies around the world as well as by section of Israel's left. The election of Sharon led to a barrage of intemperate condemmnation of Israel by the UN,the international media,world governments and groups like Amnesty International,placing all the blame for the conflict on Israel's shoulders ignoring the fact that Israel had recently chosen peace and been given a war of terror instead. Lozowick describes some of the Arab terror , such as the shooting of ten month old Jewish infant,Shalevet Pass,in her stroller on a playground,in Hebron,the murder of five month old Yehuda Shoham who had his head smashed in by a rock thrown at his parents car, and the bombing of the Dolphin Disco in Tel Aviv,in which 17 teenagers,mostly girls, were murdered and others cruelly maimed and disfigured. As a historian and archivist for Yad Vashem memorial,Lozowick describes how he had unearthed snap shots of some Shoah victims. For the first time , a friend of Lozowicks , saw pictures of his father as a young man ,and of his aunts, who did not survive the Shoah. He was astounded by the striking similarity of his own daughter to one of his aunts. "It was almost as if she had been given a second chance at life. For his daughter,the discovery served as a trigger to develop a serious sense of her own participation in the flow of Jewish history. Fifteen year old Malki Roth was murdered at the Sbarro pizzeria in the center of Jerusalem".Israel did not react to all of these killings , until in March 2002, an Arab suicide bomber struck at the Park Hotel in Netnaya, killing twenty-nine Jews as they sat down to the Passover seder table-the most family orientated moment of the Jewish year. Israel reacted by launching a campaign to go after the terrorists in their own lairs,a ground asault to ensure the minimum of Arab civilians were hurt. This led to a worldwide orgy of hatred , directed at Israel, by most of the world. Shreiks of loathing told of a massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Jenin , an allegation by the media , that turned out to be false. The massacre had not taken place. It was a blood libel. The Israelis had ensured that very few civillians had died , which lead to a greater toll of casualties among Israeli soldiers. When Jews were massacred the world was silent , when Israel decided to act , using ethics higher than any other nation , at time of war , the world erupted into hateful hysteria against Israel and all her people. In Chapter 1 Lozowick outlines the early history of Zionism and Jewish resettlement in Israel , explaining the depths of the ancient roots of the Jews to the Land of Israel,renamed Palestine by the Romans in 70 CE in order to cut off the Jewish historical connection to the land. He refutes hate-monger Edward Said who claims that the early Zionists were not capable as seeing the Arabs as fully human , pointing out that this in fact described rather Arab attitudes towards the Jews,with much greater justification. He also refutes the revisionist historians , who sprang up in the 1980's with the goal of distorting the history of the Land of Israel to deny any Jewish rights there. Lozowick recounts the bloody Arab pogrom against the Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1920,which started the war against the Jews presence in the Land of Israel, that has continued for the last 86 years,the 1921 attacks on Jews in Jaffa and Petach Tikva,the massacre and destruction of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron in 1929 , together with further pogroms in Jerusalem , and the Nazi-inspired war by the Arabs against the Land of Israel's Jewish population of 1936 to 1939 in which thousands of Jews were butchered. During the British Mandate over 'Palestine' from 1917-1947,the Jews and Arabs made many of the key decisons regarding each other. The Jews made settlements a central element of their efforts , the Arabs chose violent rejection of the Jewish presence and sovereignty as their hallmark. Not much has changed in eight decades,as the author points out. While people have been emigrating and changing the demographics of their new lands throughout human history (and it is unfair to describe this as 'colonialism') , in human history there has never been a case where a group migrated to a land it had lost for longer than living memory. Indeed very few nations have lasted over two thousand years as the Jews have. "Moreover" Lozowick reminds us,"if the Jews are a nation , how can it be moral , to deny them a place of their own , like other nations. At most you can measure the morality of a nations behaviour,not its existance." I would go so far as to say that denying a nation's right to exist is racism,akin to Nazism,hence in the opinion of the reviewer anti-Zionism is Nazism. From 1920 Jews have been attacked in the Land of Israel because they are Jews , because the Arabs did not want Jews in 'Palestine' ,hence the fashionable distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is a false one. The author also describes two parallel developments during the British Mandate , the immigration of Arabs into 'Palestine' by the hundreds of thousands -too many Arab villages were growing up next to Jewish ones to fast to be explained merely as natural population growth. While the British recorded the statistics of Jewish immigration ,they did not count the masses of Arabs crossing into the Palestine Mandate. Secondly the hundreds of thousands of Jews clamouring to get out of Europe , and into 'Palestine' were blocked from doing so , and were mostly dead by 1945. " Every single Jew who wanted to immigrate to Palestine,but was denied the chance by the growing restrictions , can be laid to the account of Palestinian violence and British appeasement;the number probably runs to the hundreds of thousands. Even this small fraction of Jewish dead exceeds all of the losses of Palestinian lives in the conflict with Zionism...the Palestinian decision at this time was to join the anti-Jewish camp at it's violent edge. Let this be kept in mind when the Palestinian propagandists decry their victimization by the victims of the Nazis." The author also points out how although millions of people around the world , have been made into refugees , the only ones not to have been resettled have been the Palestinian Arabs, who have retained their refugee status,in order to use it as a weapon against Israel. This in contrast to the 700 000 Jewish refugees expelled , after generations, from Arab countries in 1948,and all were resettled in Israel. The author,while pointing out that Israeli actions have not always been perfect or praiseworthy, have been of higher moral calibre than all other armies in wartime,regardles of all the sick propaganda to the contrary. He points out that never has a Jew entered a Palestinian home and killed a Palestinian child in her bed,as Arabs have done countless times to Jewish children. Lozowick still believes that the time may still come for a peace deal ,leading to two states living side by side,but that first the Arabs must genuinely accept Israel's right to exist,and give up the dream of controlling all of the Land of Israel,which would lead to the entire land being completely emptied of Jews,as most of Europe would be during World War II. The author believes that this will take many generations, well over a century,before they realize that they cannot drive the Jews out. It would help of course if they were not encouraged in their genocidal dreams,by far-left bigots in academia,the media, NGO's and politics to name a few of the hotbeds of anti-Israel hate. The Right of Israel to exist is what the conflict is all about and always has been ,not about 'occupation,'apartheid',refugees',or any of the other Goebellesque propaganda ploys designed to set up Israel and her people for destruction i.e to prepare a second holocaust.

Tersita's profile and indomitable determination

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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