Tag Archives: Gaza bombardment

Bloodshed and Diplomacy in Gaza: Where will it end?

January 8, 2009 – 6:46 pm

Nothing from me about Gaza, but I trust the judgement of my friends at The Economist who, even though they are not allowed into Gaza, know plenty of people who are. I am a good friend of one of the people who wrote this piece. Like me, the piece conjectures that Israeli politicians are having second [...]

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Gaza bombardment is an insult to the memory of Holocaust victims

December 31, 2008 – 7:19 pm

  Last night I was privileged to be invited by a friend to sit Shiva at the home of his father, a survivor of both Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Ravensbrück, who died, aged 82 in London on Tuesday 28 December. Two fellow survivors, who came to London after the war as part of the ’1945 Group’ [...]

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