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A few questions for Kofi Annan : Comments
By John E. Carey, published 2/8/2006For the last 50 years deterrence meant nuclear weapons. Is that next for Hezbollah? Kofi?
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I am glad that we are friends. My mistake and I am glad you do not dislike Jews.
By the way I am most unobservant and usually describe myself in the census as agnostic. Though more accurate would be agnostic with a leaning to Judaism. That is because of my upbringing in a liberal Jewish Australian family. I consider myself as an uncompromising Aussie and so did my parents and my grandmothers.
However I do have a soft spot for Israel. But one of my greatest ambitions is to travel the Middle East. To have a swim at Tel Aviv, wander again around the old city of Jerusalem, watch the mad "froomers" at the Western Wall, walk again though the wonderful Arab bazaar then pass through the Damascas Gate and take a bus to the fabled city of Damascus. Have coffee with the Arabs there and later travel to Beirut and sink my teeth into a delicious Kebab taking in the sounds and smells of the wonderful Arab culture. To hear their music and be reminded that this was once the great centre of Western thought.
I hope that it will be so again.
But that will take time and I cannot believe that destroying Israel will help. I am no fan of either Yasser Arafat or Ariel Sharon. Where might we have been without either of them?