Nous, on a pris le long chemin de l’immigration. Ça n’a jamais été facile. Ça n’a jamais été simple. Ça a même été douloureux, parfois violent — dans sa propre chair autant que dans la relation avec ses parents, ses oncles et ses tantes. Ça a
Mon Dieu! La France has run out of politicians. The Republic of this great democracy has hundreds of professional politicians. In fact, 577 in its National Assembly. Yet it can’t seem to find a prime minister who can hold this difficult job.
So
-“They make a desert and call it peace” - Tacitus around 100AD
-“Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan” - Attributed to Count Ciano
How very true. Thunderous self-congratulations echo
“Stop writing about the Mideast or we will throw acid in your and your son’s faces.”
Such was the threat shouted through the front door of our New York City apartment where my mother and I lived
Some two decades ago, I was invited to be the keynote speaker at a major Islamic conference. Instead of uttering the usual platitudes about Muslim unity, I rebuked the Muslim World for doing
The last time I was in Washington DC I came out of my downtown hotel near the White House and asked the doorman which way to walk to a certain restaurant.
“Turn left you will be fine”, he said
Israel’s savaging of Gaza has now inflicted over 61,000 dead. This is close to the generally accepted death toll from the US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in Sept 1945.
Nagasaki was hit with
“Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God; and all the rest is commentary and of secondary importance”.
So wrote Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leading Jewish thinker of the
Ndue Dedaj
