by Adam | Monday 30 October 2006
While I was in Israel before summer (circa March 2006), I was participating in a project for www.100words.net, a site where you write an entry totaling 100 words each day for a month. Logical enough... As I was recently looked...
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by Adam | Tuesday 10 October 2006
Now that I’ve returned, I am no longer a reporter; I can’t really convey the life or tone or mood as it shifts from over there. It’s funny to say that while I’m probably not imagining it, the entire issue...
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by Adam | Tuesday 10 October 2006
...After all the news and speeches and soapboxes and posturing and ideas and conventions and the hatred and the mistrust, the long bouts of hours in vans or buses and meals and streets spent with the “them” delegate of “us and them,” I found that Bush’s sentences (or Michael Gerson’s rather) sound almost the same as they do out of the mouths of the Arab contingents that Bush describes. It’s just that the “us” and the “them” are simply switched.
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