I spend quite a lot of time surfing around the Arab blogosphere, often via links I find on the fabulous Arab aggregate blog Toot.
Sometimes I find depressing, dehumanising "all evil Israel, all the time" blogs, but mostly I find insightful, thoughtful and fascinating musings that make it clearer than ever that we all have a lot more in common than we think. I'm going to write a longer post about that subject, with links to some of the blogs I've just discovered or have been reading regularly for awhile, in my next post.
Meanwhile, I just found this post by a Lebanese blogger who linked to me (and wrote some awfully nice things about me that are making me feel all humble and grateful) after he discovered the Israeli blogosphere. He thinks we Israeli bloggers are great, by the way. Here's an excerpt from his post:
"Not knowing about 'them' is the worst crime we can commit. It
invalidates them as humans, as if they don't even matter. They are
Stalin's faceless enemy, the rabid dog, the evil blood suckers whom it
is righteous to kill. Our papers definitely need to start covering more
than major political events in Israel. We should remember their
tragedies. 'They' already have a massive internal debate going on about
the Palestinians, the war in Lebanon, and the wall. Given the reception
Elias Khoury's book has received in Israel, it seems the Israelis
(including the official IDF education officer quoted in the Forward) are recognizing the Nakba. Why deny the Holocaust?
At
first all this unquestioning and uninformed hate makes me angry, but in
the end, it's truly depressing, especially after reading the
uninhibited first person narratives in the Israeli blogosphere."
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Thursday, April 27
On humanisation
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Lisa Goldman
on Thu 27 Apr 2006 01:49 PM IDT
Not your typical dour spy master
by
Lisa Goldman
on Thu 27 Apr 2006 11:25 AM IDT
So I'm sitting with my friend at a cafe last night when my mother calls on my mobile. She tells me that she has bought the vanity products I love and cannot find in Israel, and wants to know if she should FedEx them now or wait until I get back from a conference I'll be attending abroad next week, in case the package arrives while I'm away. (it is very, very cool to have a mother who is both uber-generous and an uber-shopper).
"Oh, by the way!" she says. "I saw the 'ex-CIA chief' on the Jon Stewart Show* last night. Do you know who Jon Stewart is?"  I do. "Well," she said. "Jon could hardly keep up with him! He really has a fantastic sense of humour." *Top row of video clips, second from left (next to Tom Selleck) - initials E.H. |
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