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One may take Job to task on life being ‘full of misery’, but some day we shall all be ‘cut down like a flower’ and ‘flee’th as it were a shadow’. Death has been in the news a lot lately. It is never a comfortable subject. [...]
Filed under: abortion, afghanistan, arabisraeliconflict, jadegoody on March 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
Satellite image of Cambridge University’s Sidgwick Site courtesy of Google maps.
Oh good, another person’s opinion about the law faculty protest. Hooray. Great topic for a first post. Bear with me though, for I would like to talk, not about the specifics of this protest, but of this kind of event in broader terms. Last [...]
Filed under: amnesty, arabisraeliconflict, humanrights, socialjustice on February 1st, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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The recent sit-in at the Cambridge University Law Faculty excited a range of emotions: passion and devotion to their cause on the behalf of the protestors, leading to an exhausted fatigue as the conflict reached its climax, to the evident curiosity and frustration of many of us [...]
Filed under: arabisraeliconflict, democracy on January 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By refusing to renew its six month truce with Israel and launching hundreds of rockets across the border, Hamas has provoked Israel into a devastating and tragic reaction. Yet following the embarrassment of its incursion into Lebanon in 2006, the question remains as to why Israel has responded in the manner it has. Is the [...]
Filed under: arabisraeliconflict, iran, jameschettle, middle east, terrorism on December 31st, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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Filed under: arabisraeliconflict, bbc, jackprevezer on November 5th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
