Minutes of a Monday #64
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Brain Food
“I think that I once wrote that we treat the Palestinians like animals. I got so many complaints and threat letters from animal rights organizations that I have to be very careful. I’m in great favour, obviously, of animal rights, but I think that most of the Israelis do not perceive the Palestinians as equal human beings, and maybe this is the core of the issue.”
Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy speaking in 2016.
Soul Food
“The greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds.”
President John F. Kennedy
LOL
Let’s talk about politics (careful now):
Appendix
“It seems to me that we are becoming the scold of Europe. We run about shaking our fists in people’s faces, ascertaining that this must be altered and that must stop. We get ourselves disliked and distrusted and misunderstood, and in the end we achieve nothing and relapse into humiliated silence or laboriously explain how pleased we are.”
Sir Austen Chamberlain, writing to his sister Ida, on the 22nd of September 1923, expressing his frustration at Britain, after appearing to be willing to intervene and end the crisis, deciding not to intervene in France’s occupation of the Ruhr in 1923.
Taken from ‘1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the year of Hitler’s Coup’ by Mark Jones.
AOB
Article #9 hit your inbox last Friday. Why not take five, grab a coffee and have a read here.
Have a great week and keep her between the ditches out there - Niall.