bernardine bishop the novelist, who has terminal cancer: "when people talk about the afterlife I start imagining it and when one starts imagining it, it seems untrue."

cause for hope in the middle east?

Obama in Israel: " . .It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own and lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of her parents every single day. . . . . (The Israeli students who were listening gave this rapturous applause)  The only way for Israel to endure and thrive as a Jewish and democratic state is through the realisation of an independent and viable Palestine."