“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
Reading Oedipus feels like standing on granite outcroppings on the Maine coast looking seawards. The rock is among the oldest on the planet and the Atlantic was formed about 150 million years old. Birds, sun, clouds, sky, rock, ocean. Oedipus feels as fundamental in its portrayal of human beings – universal in our capacity for blindness, essential and primordial in the rawness of its emotional power. In this time, Kings, […]
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They murdered entire families, raped women in front of their dead friends, cut the heads off children. They pursued the unarmed and screaming just for the joy of slaughter . They would do it to every Jew they could capture — all of them if they could. They have told us this. They want there to be no doubts. This is the crucial section of Hamas’ 1988 Covenant , its central philosophical belief: “Moreover, if the links […]
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Three hundred and sixty-six days ago I almost died while sitting in a parking lot and trying to decide if I should try to get up to go in and collect the pizza we had ordered. My heart was jackknifing from 20 beats per minute to 200. The EMT saved my life. A few weeks later, wires pushed through a vein burned the circuit in my heart that had almost […]
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It is over now. Minutes after they captured Danilo Cavalcante, I counted 15 police vehicles passing our house heading back to their home barracks. I awoke at 1:00 am on the morning of the 12th to flashing lights. From the windows of my house, I could see 7 PSP vehicles – at first light, men and women in uniform with AR-15’s in slings stopping every car for a look-see. Helicopters, […]
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