House & Home via Jezebel
Almost more interesting because it was found on Jezebel, a culture, fashion and celeb gossip blog. I love it when the cause goes mainstream.
[Jerusalem, November 3. Image via Getty]
A Palestinian schoolgirl stands near Israeli security forces guarding a Palestinian house in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah after Israeli settlers took control over the house accompanied with a private security company following an Israeli court order on November 03, 2009. Dozens of Israeli settlers took over the house armed with a court order secured after a protracted legal battle with a Palestinian family, witnesses and police said. embers of the Al-Kurd family demonstrated in front of the house along with other Arab residents and pro-Palestinian activists as the settlers hurled the family’s belongings out onto the street, a neighbour told AFP. AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON (Photo credit should read GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)
via House & Home – Sheikh jarrah – Jezebel.
All nations have a cross to bear, and none more so than Germany with its memories of Nazism. But the British cross is more insidious still. A misplaced sense of superiority, sustained by delusions of grandeur and a tenacious obsession with the last war, is much harder to shake off.
