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That's Alan's picture to the right of the first post.
Today he has been missing for 43 days. 43 days in which a good bloke has been held captive, unjustly. Any rational Muslim would agree it is thuloum, an injustice - I learnt that word from Jill Carroll's description of her time in captivity.
Many, many Palestinians have called for his release because they recognise that his is a voice that speaks up for those whose voice is faint or unheard, regardless of their religious or political beliefs. That voice still needs to be heard. In Palestine and in too many places across the globe.
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06 April 2007
Some come home...
I've got mixed feelings about this. Relieved that the released marines and sailors were able to board a flight to return home from Iran: disturbed by the 'scripts' and other pressure which seem to have been imposed on the prisoners and the distortion of facts by at least one side. This means that I can't consider their release as an act of generosity on the part of the Iranian President.
Dismayed as, at almost that exact moment, four more soldiers died in Iraq.
Who gets the credit for this release? It seems, Iran's President, though it also seems as though he didn't really want to release them.
My favourite Iraqi bloggers help me to have a sense of the lives of the Iraqi people in this ongoing struggle. But I am also conscious of many other civil war zones and the suffering that goes on, right now, as I type this.
I still hope to come across those seemingly rare acts of kindness and generosity which I longed, when I started this blog, to be able to celebrate here. No change either on feeling naive in having started this blog. A wild goose chase might have been a better option.
Dismayed as, at almost that exact moment, four more soldiers died in Iraq.
Who gets the credit for this release? It seems, Iran's President, though it also seems as though he didn't really want to release them.
My favourite Iraqi bloggers help me to have a sense of the lives of the Iraqi people in this ongoing struggle. But I am also conscious of many other civil war zones and the suffering that goes on, right now, as I type this.
I still hope to come across those seemingly rare acts of kindness and generosity which I longed, when I started this blog, to be able to celebrate here. No change either on feeling naive in having started this blog. A wild goose chase might have been a better option.
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