This Israeli documentary about the plight of young Palestinian men trying to cope by having to find menial work in an Israeli market is, I s...

I've been in many campaigns at a community level. We had a picket of probably 200 people and Muldoon came out and I happened to be in t...

I'm not used to the sound of gunfire and I hope I don't hear it again. As a New Zealander and coming from a peaceful country and no...

Troubled waters. A rather whimsical title for the content it heads up. Almost romantic. Mills and Boon. Gentle and evasive. The title f...

The Israeli Take was an imported "in-depth" news item shown last night on NZTV Sunday programme. Previously we had had a home-gro...

I confess that apart from three exceptions my view of American talk is dictated by on-screen programmes and their participants. Americans t...

Six New Zealanders - Kia Ora Gaza - will be taking part sometime in September 2010 in another movement by land to subvert Israel's ill...

Noam Chomsky and voices from North, South and Central America. There are four interviews with Chomsky in which he infects the reader with a...

This article appeared in Haaretz to mark Israel's book week. She is refreshing in her no-nonsense descriptions of the Israeli "sit...

I know that the people of Gaza will honour those international citizens who took part in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla May 2010, and in particul...

Like Abdel Bari Atwan, Ramzy Baroud was born and lived in an Israeli concentration camp in Gaza, from where with the selfless effort of his ...

It is heartening to find one's own insights given expression by prominent commentators one respects, but it is somewhat disconcerting to...

In 1970 we moved into our house in a street of group housing. In those days (in any days?) everyone was expected to be the same. If you did ...

I have just read some more essays by Wendell Berry (The Gift of Good Land). This extraordinary ordinary man, an academic who farms in Kentuc...

I am going to be really childish and say that if there be any person in history I would have wished to have been in a previous life the prim...

I am trying to give Beckett another go and read all his novels. As a young man I could read Patrick White even though I thought he put the r...

Unlike Seneca, John Donne appears to be subject to no controversy about his honesty and integrity. This could be due to the fact that he pat...

Seneca has a bit of a mixed press. Some of it brands him a hypocrite. Here we have a millionaire talking of the value of simplicity and pove...

From the ages of 3-13 I was sent to Sunday School by my parents so that they could have Sunday afternoon to themselves. The walk from Counci...

I recently made the mistake of purchasing a DVD entitled 'Dylan: Busy Being Born Again - inside Bob Dylan's Jesus years. Dylan is n...