“I am making mistakes, and I’m so sorry.” Full text of Ed Sheeran’s response to “Free Palestine” speech,
Plus responses to feedback of my previous Substack post
Dear Friends,
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Palestine
Annual Visit to Palestine and Israel. 1992-2019. Suffering and its Resolution. An account from 2010. A Retreat. A Workshop. Decades of Suffering
I came to Israel in 1992 to give the first of annual retreats, workshops, meetings, public talks, until 2019. My first visit led to subsequent annual visits to the West Bank of Palestine to offer workshops, indoors and outdoors, in secular language with Arabic/ English translation.
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Listening to rock music on Spotify in Totnes gym and a sudden flashback to Palestine and liberating rock
Earlier this week, I took out a subscription to Spotify, the Swedish music streaming provider. It is the world’s largest such provider with over 365 million monthly active users. I wanted to listen to more music in the gym.
I am a member of the Church of Gymism for the past decade raising weights to heaven – sometimes called pumping iron. Before cycling off to the modest size gym in Totnes, I downloaded Rock anthems from the 1960s, 1970s, classical music etc.
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Does a country have the right to defend itself? A Reflection
It has become an article of faith that a country has the right to defend itself. Many hold to this view as if it carried an unshakeable and irrefutable truth.
Countries worldwide use the slogan. We heard it again daily from Israel’s Prime Minister and then from US President Biden – “Israel has a right to defend itself.”
This specific statement means the nation state has the right to wage war on another country.
Is this the only way for a country to defend itself? …
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TO OUR LAND. A Poem by Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s National Poet
Today, 15 May, marks Nakba Day – the Day of Catastrophe. Every year, on May 15, Palestinians remember their 1948 military expulsion from much of their land. This followed the end of the British Mandate over Palestine. In 1988, the Palestinian Parliament-In-Exile accepted the state of Israel. The Israeli government does not accept the state of Palestine. Only a handful of countries in the UN do not recognise the state of Palestine. …
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