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In a virtual visit to Australia before embarking on my recent tour of the country, I consulted four classics by four well known Australians; Alan Moorehead's The Fatal Impact, Patrick White's The Vivisector, Donald Horne's The Lucky Country, and Colin Roderick's Henry Lawson. I also watched two Australian films; Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) and Australia (2008) - more about these two historical dramas in part 4.
You can reach and touch the soul of Australia by reading Henry Lawson's poems. My three favorites are: The Star of Australasia, The City Bushman and Second Class Wait Here - all written in the late 1800s. Here I share the first one because of its beauty and historical significant.
Thanks to Alan Moorehead I now know about a great Australian woman; Daisy May Bates (1859 - 1951). Moorehead in his 1966 classic The Fatal Impact talked about her life and her writings with a great admiration.
Western media does not highlight the current genocide against Muslims in the Central African Republic or in Myanmar (Burma).
I met him in Kuwait as he was just posted as a diplomat at the embassy of the Central African Republic. "Yesterday, the Christian militia shot my brother dead because he was a Muslim," he told me, "Then they tried to behead him. But the Burundian peacekeeping military intervened so they handed his body to my family."
Last Saturday (May 17, 2014) we drove 6 hours from Canada's University of Waterloo to Ottawa, the nation's capital, to cast our votes in Egypt's presidential election. We were seven in total, aged ranging from 70 (me) to the low 30s.
Egypt is divided; on one side there is the vast majority of its 90 millions, hopeful and optimistic for a bright future, and on the other side there is a tiny group of Islamists, led by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) who terrorize and kill to advance their political agenda, and above all justify their crimes in the name of Islam.
The current Muslim terrorist crimes in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt have this in common: they are supported politically, militarily and financially by the U.S. and its regional clients, directly by Qatar and Turkey and indirectly by Israel.
Demonstrators gathered in Ottawa to denounce the Israeli attack on Gaza.
I have a dream; not unlike post-Nazi Germany and post-Apartheid South Africa, Israel would eventually evolve into a state meant for all its citizens, irrespective of their ethnic origin or religious affiliation - a state on the land of historic Palestine which includes native Palestinians and settled Jews.
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