Gamma Senmin, Soga Shōhaku (1730-1783). Freer Collection, Washington.
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“Targeting refugee camps.” - March 18, 2025 - Zionist terror spreads. Please visit the original article to listen to the audio and video clips. Home demolitions surged in the northern West Bank governorates of Tulkarm and Jenin during the first week of March. On 6 March, the United...
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Zionists Within - March 17, 2025 - During Donald Trump’s first four years in the White House, the stranger to Washington’s infernal ways got nothing done: That cabal of various Deep State appendages — the Democratic Party’s upper echelons, the intelligence apparatus, the Justice Department and the...
“And so we avert our eyes.” - March 15, 2025 - The mirror Palestinians hold up to us. Some images and press pieces—pictures, videos, media reports—come to me lately. They arrive separately, one to another over a period of a days. And I am moved to share them now because, when...Cú Chulainn.
Cú Chulainn stirred,
Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard
The cars of battle and his own name cried;
And fought with the invulnerable tide.
——Yeats, Cú Chulainn’s Fight with the Sea,
1892
