Book and Movie Reviews

If Jesus lived in Galilee in recent decades he would live in a world alive with Palestinian traditions clinging to a long-rooted history but struggling through the aftermath of the never-ended ethnic-cleansing operation that spiked in 1948.

Hatim Kanaaneh has written a fictionalized account, Chief Complaint: A Country Doctor’s Tale of Life in Galilee, based on his experiences as a village doctor during the past half-century, read more

There’s no end to the pro-war movies we’re subjected to: countless celebrations of bombs, guns, and torture.  They come in the form of cartoons, science-fiction, historical fiction, dramas, and reenactments pre-censored by the CIA.  Movies show us the excitement without the suffering.  War in our theaters resembles almost anything else more than it resembles war.

Journalists appear in our movies too, usually as comic figures, talking-head air-heads, numskulls, and sycophants.  read more

Here’s a great short story for children or anyone else who thinks achieving peace is a goal worth striving for.

And this story is a true one, drawn from history — as could be many more if we chose to look in the right places.

But don’t take it from me. I read it to a 6 year old who liked it too, so you can take if from him.

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