“When Arthur Balfour launched his scheme for peopling Palestine with Jewish immigrants, I am credibly informed that he did not know there were Arabs in the country.” W. R. Inge (!860-1954), from the London Evening Standard, quoted in This England, by M. Bateman, selections fro the New Statesman
A MESSAGE OF CONCERN TO ALL THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE As Leaders of the Christian Churches in Jerusalem concerned at the present situation in the Palestinian Territories we feel we must voice our anxiety for all our people – Christian and Moslem alike – at the deteriorating relations between Fatah and Hamas leaders and the armed …
“….the day will come when religion is…………………………….no longer cool–except in its socially valuable forms, where it will be one type of allegiance among many. Will those descendant institutions still be religions? Or will religions have thereby morphed themselves into extinction? It all depends on what you think the key or defining elements of religion are. …
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From the Herald Tribune, Friday 5th January, 2007 There was good news and bad news Wednesday for shareholders of Home Depot. The good news is that Robert Nardelli, the imperious chief executive…….has resigned. The bad news is that he’ll be taking $210 million worth of compensation with him……. Nardelli may be best known for his …
“Trust a snake before a harlot and a harlot before a Pathan.” Hindu proverb quoted by Rudyard Kipling in Kim.Had the current rulers of the US and EU nations studied history they would have discovered that the British were summarily kicked out of Afghanisatn twice and the Russians once and rather recently. Alexander the Great …
