Daily Archives: August 10, 2020

Midsummer madness

Dictionary definition: “foolish or extravagant behaviour supposed to occur during the summer.” We are at the moment more or less in mid-summer and if the above definition is accurate then this week’s crop of foolish and...

UNRWA-USA tries to cash in on Beirut explosion

From a fundraising email from UNRWA-USA: On Tuesday, a massive explosion in Lebanon tragically destroyed or damaged nearly half the capital city of Beirut, left at least 137 dead, thousands injured, and reportedly 300,000 homeless. Before the...

Teaching hate

You can’t expect peace if you teach hate. Common sense, right? A lesson the world has taught over and over again, no? An apolitical lesson, moreover, in that it doesn’t matter who is doing the...