IT WAS just a passing conversation, but it has stuck in my memory.
It was soon after the Six-Day War. I was coming out of the main hall of the Knesset, after making a speech calling for the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state.
Caught inside an electrical storm, a terrible beauty is born
MWC Corner
By Don Williams
Saturday, 05 July 2008
You try to count seconds between lightning and thunder but there’s no interval. You’re inside the storm, baby, rain-beaten and pressed against the base of a dune topped with burnt and stunted shrubs, while a woman you love trembles against your chest. You wrap yourself around her, yet you’re scared too—you’d be lying to say otherwise—as very air explodes incandescent white.
Israel has reopened border crossings to the Gaza Strip after closing them last week when a rocket was fired from the Hamas-ruled territory in defiance of a two-week-old truce.
Archaeologists have discovered an intact tomb near Peru's northern coast of a pre-Incan leader who lived 1,600 years ago, the group's lead scientist has aid.
Orangutans could become the first great ape to become extinct unless action is taken to protect the species from human encroachment in Southeast Asia, according to a US study.
A 41-year-old Berliner was arrested after wax figure of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was beheaded shortly after a new branch of Madame Tussauds opened in Berlin, police said.
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