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IT is one of the supreme ironies of Ireland's history that a mid-12th century Pope first granted the land to England. For centuries thereafter the English fitfully sought to establish their dominion over the warlike yet poetry-intoxicated Gaelic tribes. It was not until the Reformation, however...
Said one Palestinian at the Shati refugee camp: "All I ask are equal rights and my home." A small landowner, he fled from Ashkelon during the 1948 war; 23 years later, he still considers Gaza a temporary abode. "If it is impossible for me to return to my land and...
Abigail was dead by the time the Israeli military helicopter arrived. Marc-Daniel died soon after. Aroyo buried them on the Mount of Olives, smoothing the dirt over their graves with his own hands. Then he hurried back to the Beersheba hospital where his wife was being treated for injuries...
Estimates of the death toll in the army crackdown range from 200,000 all the way up to a million. The lower figure is more widely accepted, but the number may never be known. For one thing, countless corpses have been dumped in rivers, wells and mass graves. For another...
I say that the repression was not fascism, understanding that the mass arrests without cause and the indiscriminate gassing and beatings speakof it, understanding that there can be a future in which all 7000 arrestees end up in mass graves. This government does roughly equivalent things in Vietnam, but when...