From Tom Paine's Corner

Franz Kafka wrote what could be a writer’s credo: “It’s not laziness, bad will, awkwardness that causes me to fail in everything, but the lack of ground under my feet, of air, of law. My task is to create these things.”

(Rome) The reach and the role of literature in the unity of a Europe forever in search of its common roots is perhaps a uniquely European phenomenon. For while politics and economic issues have always divided these diverse peoples, cultured Europeans spread over the lands and seas from Finland to Sicily, from Wales to Poland, are unconsciously linked by the fine thread of their common literature.

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It is only the beginning as the decision makers of the Israeli army said. Threats of a new holocaust against the Palestinians from those who taste the ethnic cleansings they said. However, can not we consider what the Palestinians have witnessed since 1948 is a holocaust, a long term holocaust that happened every day, so it won’t be anew thing for us to suffer though this time it is an intensified sufferings addressed against the most innocent, helpless creatures, our children.

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The other day I heard some brilliant riffs on the news by the LA-based Frangela sitting in for Stephanie Miller and I laughed until my side felt like splitting in sync with their spot on takes on race, sex, rings of prostitution and propaganda in high places. Thanks Stephanie and Frances Callier and Angela V. Shelton. I need light relief.

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The Palestine Chronicle (http://www.palestinechronicle.com) continues to appeal to its friends, supporters and readers - and those who wish to preserve and support independent, alternative media - to come to its support, as it strives to raise needed funds to stay online.

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The state-corporate media keep deceiving you. While celebrating five years of media failure with books, articles, comments, TV and radio shows and happy birthday cakes, the same media are hiding the Iraq genocide in the most dreadful way.

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