- 11:34 pm - Thu, Aug 4, 2011
It’s definitely time for bed. I’ve recently started to write down words that I don’t know and their definition down. I wrote difficult instead of diffused and apparently, a diatribe is a lengthy piece of butter…
- 5:56 pm - Mon, Aug 1, 2011
I just spent another 10 quid on a book. I was only going into the bookshop to get change to buy a big issue and I walked out with a new book. The newest edition to my ever growing library is Web Of Deceit: Britain’s Real Foreign Policy: Britain’s Real Role in the World by Mark Curtis.
I think I need a prong collar or an electric shock one for when I’m surrounded by books. This would be my fifth purchase in a little over a week :\
- 6:37 pm - Thu, Jun 30, 2011
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The enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It’s the illusion of knowledge - Stephen Hawking
- 11:58 pm - Sat, Jun 25, 2011
Q: Can you direct me to any online version of THE RISE AND FALL OF PALESTINE: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE INTIFADA YEARS By Norman Finkelstein? I am currently reading The Image and Reality of Israel-Palestine Conflict but I cannot wait to indulge myself into every honest, intelligent book written by this magnificent man
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I haven’t been able to find an online copy of it. I think it’s also out of print. It’s on amazon but it’s hellish expensive. If I come across one, I’ll send you a link
- 5:22 pm - Wed, Jun 8, 2011
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you’ve chosen the side of the oppressor.” - Desmond Tutu
- 4:27 pm
I wish I could write book reviews as smooth as these…
“Critical and very well informed… The Rise and Fall of Palestine is also quite unusual, virtually unique, because of the rich framework of past and current history that Finkelstein brings to bear in a most illuminating way, because of the interweaving of very thoughtful (and often moving) personal experiences, and because of the singular nature of Finkelstein’s perspective, which is sharply different from those that dominate discussions of the situation in Palestine.” - Noam Chomsky on THE RISE AND FALL OF PALESTINE: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE INTIFADA YEARS By Norman Finkelstein.
“This book is that very rare thing, a book of human experience informed by massive historical scholarship, prodigiously detailed political analysis, and exceptional wisdom. I do not know any book like it that deals so intimately and yet so clearly with the tragic quandaries of the Palestinian situation.” - Edward Said on the same book.
