Thursday, March 05, 2009

It was one of those books, I'm sorry!

Have managed to raise my nose from the grindstone to read a few chapters of
Palestinian walks, notes on a vanishing landscape by Raja Shehadeh.
Very interesting.
Boy we think we have got problems. You spend your life building a cast iron case against the illegal annexation of your land by the Israeli State and its head banging extremists. Land which most of the world regards as little better than a rock strewn rubbish dump but which you recognise as the gentle soul of your nation and wham, bahm, thank you man the PLO have sold you down the crapper!

So it goes!

And then today I read

good gracious!