Tolerance is a wasteland: Palestine and the culture of denial (2022). What a gloomy title! I am overwhelmed by the horrors of Gaza, all the boringly excruciating details of genocide, our helplessness. For some reason, I ordered this book from the library and finally forced myself to open it. When I got to the detailed comparisons of apartheid South Africa and Israel, I was hooked. I get goosebumps realizing how close we are now to a rivetting, deja vu replay of that glorious struggle leading to victory. Makdisi shows beyond a doubt that Israel's shipwreck-of-state is sinking under its phony, slipshod 'Jewish-democratic-state'. How can it be both Jewish and a 'state-of-all'? Of course, it can't. Q.E.D.

But Tolerance gets better and better.

Matt Haig's The Humans (2013) uses sci fi, 'speculative fiction', for what it does best: reveal to us how lethal human beings are and how we need to control technology before it turns us into monsters and reduces planet Earth to … Gaza. This time it's a simple tale of the seductiveness of 'going native' faced with totalitarian alienation, and genocide by the latter against those oh-so seductive natives.

As we come to the end of the reign of Trudeau Jr, here's a nostalgic take on his ascendancy to the Canadian throne.

Sadly, his time in office was mostly disappointing, his antics worthy of Monty Pyton's Ministry of Silly Walks, but what will follow could make us long for Justin's kindergarten antics.

Justin Trudeau: Start of a Canadian legend

OK, just a glimpse of the Trent Canal system, from Peterborough to Lakefield, 13.2 km, and an exploration of another trail, but surely one of the 'nicest' 13.2 km of Canadian bike trails. And mostly disregarding the actual trail. Better than a beeline through bush -- you can use the pokey highway #32 that hugs the canal, slow and windy. Hardly a car in sight. 

Netanyahu must be developing a taste for crow. Trump promises to make the world fall back in love with Izzie. Good luck with that.  

https://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/134845

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