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When I first planned my trip to Malaysia, I had every intention of just staying with the family in the Klang Valley – the large urban corridor that forms the Kuala Lumpur metropolitan area. I was pleasantly surprised when my brother offered to drive me 200 miles up the peninsula to the island of Penang. The journey northwards takes you through the limestone hills of Perak. Proceeding north of Ipoh the highway makes a dramatic climb through some of the most scenic mountain passes in the country, finally arriving at the flat northern Kedah plains with its seemingly endless stretch of rice fields.
The northerners view themselves as a distinct region complete with their own mix of Malay dialects. Even the Chinese communities there speak their own particular patois called "Penang Hokkien". From the mainland one can either use the 13.5 kilometer-long bridge spanning Penang's South Channel or the old ferry service from Butterworth to the city of Georgetown across the North Channel. On a trip down memory lane, we decided to take the ferry service for a more leisurely approach to the old city.
The island of Penang was named after the betel nut palm called pinang in Malay. The island was officially called Prince of Wales Island from 1786 but reverted back to simply Penang after Malaysian independence. The old city is called Georgetown after King George III (Yes, THAT King George from the American War of Revolution!). It is a maze of narrow streets radiating out from the cape that forms the original colonial settlement, forming many ethnic enclaves that still retain their old world flavor. The entire place has been designated as a World Heritage site by UNESCO.
Penang is renown for its cuisine. Among Malaysians and Singaporeans, Penang is a food destination replete with street food as well as seafood restaurants. Although we arrived late in the evening, finding food was not a problem. At dusk the sea wall promenade called Gurney Drive comes alive with food stalls, coffee shops, and restaurants.
Penangites love their hawker food and Gurney Drive was busy and packed with people at 11:00pm. The food portions are generally smaller allowing people to graze five times a day including tea time and supper (food taken at night after dinner).
Among the many dishes offered at Gurney Drive, here are some of the perennial favorites that we had that night. The common link among the dishes shown here is the use of hei koh or shrimp paste. Hei koh is a sweet black paste that has the consistency of molasses. It is frequently used as part of a sauce mix for local fruit salads like rojak or a dip for grilled cuttle fish. Another dish that uses hei koh is the Penang version of chee cheong fun (steamed rice rolls). Lastly, the signature dish of Penang called asam laksa requires a dash of hei koh to make the taste come alive (shown further down).
The next morning, we went to the Peranakan and Eurasian enclave of Pulau Tikus (literally translates into "Mouse Island"). Pulau Tikus is a suburb of Georgetown along the north shore of the island and famous for traditional Penang fare in the coffee shops near the old market. We were drawn to the Nyonya cakes that literally sell like "hot cakes". Some varieties are so popular that they are sold out within the hour. The cakes shown here are steamed tray cakes like serimuka, kuih bingka, kuih kosui, kuih talam, and pulut tai tai. The red circular cakes are angku (red turtle-shaped cakes) usually served during family celebrations. The dumplings on the lower left corner are chai kuih (vegetable dumpling) and the ever present nasi lemak bungkus.
Other street favorites to be found here were ban jian kuih (Chinese peanut pancake),
char koay kak (fried rice cake),
pisang goreng (banana fritters),
and cempedak goreng (cempedak fritters).
Tropical fruits also made an appearance at the market.
We spent the rest of the morning exploring Georgetown. This is a typical row of town houses along the streets. Almost all of Georgetown has the feel of Chinatown except for a few colonial edifices that marked the former presence of Pax Britannica.
In the afternoon, we headed back to the beach hotel for a soak in the ocean as well as the swimming pool.
Leaving the hotel, we moved inland. Away from the crowded city, we passed colonial bungalows that used to be retreats for British administrators and their families. Among these, the oldest and most historic is Suffolk House, Captain Francis Light's original Anglo-Indian bungalow recently restored to its former glory. The house is nestled among old Flame-of-the-Forest trees and one could almost imagine what social life the place must have seen during its heyday.
Next, we headed to Air Itam, a town nestled at the foothills of Penang's mountainous interior. The biggest tourist attraction at Air Itam is the Kek Lok Si, the largest Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia.
The pedestrian mall leading up to the temple is lined with souvenir stalls forming the perfect tourist trap that many happily participate in. Note the "guard dog" napping under one of the stalls at the lower right corner.
True to our foodie mission, we bypassed the souvenir stalls and made a beeline for the famous Air Itam laksa stall next to the market (do you detect an emerging pattern here?). Many Penangites swear by the laksa served here but like all great food debates there are an equal number of Penangites who insist that the laksa at the Balik Pulau market (of course!) is even better.
In the late afternoon we crossed from Penang to the mainland using the Penang Bridge and headed south towards Kuala Lumpur. About a hundred miles south of Penang, we made a brief stopover at the city of Ipoh for (YES, you guessed it!) food. The Kinta Valley is dominated by Cantonese cuisine and Ipoh used to be called "Little Guangzhou" because of the quality of Cantonese food found there.
We opted for nga choy gai (bean sprout chicken), a very popular Ipoh dish. The main ingredients are bean sprouts and free-range chicken. The bean sprouts were crunchy and tasty but the chicken was a little on the tough side due to too much free-ranging. I much prefer the couch-potato variety. The overall taste of this dish approximates Hainanese chicken rice.
Another side dish that is popularly served with nga choy gai is springy meatball soup. Legend has it that the best meatballs can bounce approximately one foot off the table but we did not want to find out and lose one precious meatball. Stomach wins over scientific experimentation!
One particular restaurant in Ipoh specializes in making vegetarian pork trotters (oxymoron?) which are seasoned tofu sheets bound tightly into a bundle until they fuse into a solid mass. The resulting bundle is normally served in slices like cold meat as a snack or side dish. It has a spicy, sweetish taste. Foodie appetite sated for now and time to get back to Kuala Lumpur.
There were many more dishes in Penang and Ipoh that we could have tried but there just simply weren't enough meals in a day to fit them in. What to do? Just recounting this makes me hungry again.
Enjoy…..and have a wonderful day!
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27 Responses to "Malaysia Revisited Part 3 – Penang and a Little Bit of Ipoh"
Wow Biren, I have to admit that Malaysia has never been at the top of my bucket list of places to see, but you've changed that. Sounds amazing!
*guffaw* Couch potato chickens?? You can't imagine the pictures you've put into my head OMG!! Penang is indeed a food paradise. I know I would get sooooooooo FAT if I went there *blush* I've always wondered what fried carrot/rice cake would taste like with bean sprouts as we have ours without….
Everything looks so fantastic!! What a trip you had. I really drooled over the rambutan and mangosteen! Have a great weekend! Ramona
The photos of Penang are beautiful!I was there last year for a week.The food is out of this world.The beautiful beaches and the newly built condos on top of the hills are gorgeous.My husband and I love the place so much that we are thinking of making Penang our second home.Again,you are making me homesick with your photos of Penang food.
Another great post of your homeland! Loved all of the pictures, the writing and the food! Great picture of you by the beach. I've really enjoy this series!
Thks for bringing me on a tour! I haven't been to Penang & Ipoh for ages. Some of the stuff do look familiar. The last pix is kinda interesting. Haven't seen or tried anything like that….
Malaysia truly is a food haven, I miss Malaysia
I've become head-over-heels in love with Malaysia through your posts. It looks like a fabulous place, and the food is out of this world. I have to get there someday. Love the post, love the pictures. Superb work – thank you.
I'll write all of this down! I should head to penang this winter!
I am so glad that I get a chance to learn a little bit about Malaysia from your. I think I am beginning to develop an appetite not just for the food but for the country as well. Especially with all those food stalls . Beautiful posts and beautiful shots! Thank you for sharing your trip with us, Biren!
We went to our favorite local Malaysian restaurant yesterday, and when I saw Ipoh on the menu, I just had to try it, after reading this post. It is REALLY good, it was my first time eating Ipoh, and now I will have to make one at home Thank you for introducing to me one more delicious dish!
Thanks for the refresher course in history and geography Kinta Valley, Captain Francis Light…haven't heard of these since my secondary school history lessons. Nice to read back all these stories and you did it very well!
Didn't know that Penang has her own mix of Malay dialects. I thought Sarawak and Sabah are the only states with completely different mix of Malay dialects. I guess it was the Straits influence.
I love going to markets, whenever I'm back in Malaysia and looking at your pictures and stories make me want to go back soon. Can you imaging the last time I was in Penang was in 1993!! Has she changed a bit? NO, I guess, she's transformed humongously, right?
just returned from a really enjoyable 10 day holiday in malaysia. reading your write-up on penang and ipoh makes me homesick again …. nothing like malaysian food!
You mention in Ipoh, there's this famous place that specializes in vegetarian pig trotters. Can I have the address & contact number. I would love to get them to try. Thanks.


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Osho,Nothing thrills me more than when you speak about nirvana. How mysterious it is that I can long so much for something that I don't know and you can't say. The word itself is still unpolluted and so wondrous. On the other hand, I noticed last week that we now have "enlightened" insurance policies! Would you please thrill my heart once more?
This must be Kaveesha, because the question can come only from California. In California you can have enlightened insurance policies. In California everything is possible! But there is no insurance, no guarantee for enlightenment. You have to earn it, you have to deserve it. Nobody can give it to you; it is not a commodity.
And I can see why the word nirvana thrills you into ecstasies. It is certainly one of the words which is unpolluted. There is a reason why it remained unpolluted. The first reason that it remained unpolluted was its meaning. Unless you have come to a deep understanding of yourself and existence, the word nirvana will create fear in you. It is a negative word. Literally it means blowing out the candle.
Gautam Buddha used the word for the ultimate state of consciousness. He could have chosen some positive word, and in India there were many positive words for it: moksha, freedom, liberation; kaivalya, aloneness, absolute aloneness; brahmanubava, the experience of the ultimate. But he chose a strange word, which has never been used in spiritual contexts: blowing out the candle. How can you relate it with a spiritual experience?
Buddha says your so-called self is nothing but a flame, and it is being kept burning through your desires. When all desires disappear the candle has disappeared. Now the flame cannot exist anymore. The flame also disappears – disappears into the vast universe, leaving no trace behind it; you cannot find it again. It is there but it has gone forever from any identity, from any limitation.
Hence Buddha chose the word nirvana rather than realization, because realization still can give you some egoistic superiority – that you are a realized person, that you are a liberated being, that you are enlightened, that you are illuminated, that you have found it. But you remain. And Buddha is saying you are lost – who is going to find it? You disperse, you were only a combination. Now each element goes to its original source. The identity of the individual is no more. Yes, you will exist as the universe….
So Buddha avoided any positive word, knowing the human tendency, because each positive word can give you a feeling of ego. No negative word can do that; that's why it remains unpolluted. You cannot pollute something which is not. And people were very much afraid to use the word – with a deep inner trembling – nirvana.
Thousands of times Buddha was asked, "Your word nirvana does not create in us an excitement, does not create in us a desire to achieve it. The ultimate truth, self-realization, the realization of God – all those create a desire, a great desire. Your word creates no desire."


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Donald C. Benson is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis, and the author of A Smoother Pebble and The Moment of Proof.
"For anyone with a keen interest in astronomy, geometry, and the history of science, however, the book will be a must-read." - Andrew May, Fortean Times
Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Survival of the Valid I. Birth 2 The Bowl of Night 3 Epicycles and Relative Motion 4 The Deferent-Epicycle Model 5 Making Money, Et Cetera II Rebirth 6 The Reluctant Revolutionary 7 Circles No More 8 The War with Mars III Enlightenment 9 The Birth of Mechanics 10 The Astronomical Alchemist A. The Greek Alphabet B. Vectors Notes References Index


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As Heechul held the photo of Han Geng and himself in his hands a tear rolled down his face. They were both smiling in the photo, taken when Heechul had last visited Han Geng in China. He knew he wouldn't be able to visit Han Geng anymore. Not because Heechul was too busy or had passport/visa problems. It was because Han Geng had passed away in his sleep. He was dead.
The pain of knowing he wouldn't be able to see Han Geng anymore was painful for Heechul. He missed the feeling of Han Geng's soft, plump lips against his own and the way they would make love -not sex, but love- to one another.
"Your everything. I love it all." Heechul seemed to be speaking to the photo. "Saranghae." Unable to withstand the pain any longer, Heechul walked to the kitchen. After opening the drawer he frantically searched for a knife.
Finally, he found one. Heechul held the knife to his chest and, after taking a deep breath, plunged the shining blade into his heart. He dug the knife even deeper and as he dug deeper, the more scarlet red blood would gush out from his chest, contrasting with the milky white of his skin.
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Being busier than usual this past week, I would have expected an excessive amount of random thoughts to go with today. However, I guess being busier meant that I wasn't writing them down over the course of the week as I have made a habit of doing. Lesson learned I suppose, but a few of them seemed to pop back into my head over coffee this morning and I always have enough garbage floating around in my noggin to fill in the rest. Now on to some thoughts for the week before settling in for some football . . .
Random thought #1 – Though I do not often watch the weather before leaving the house, I know that the chance of rain goes up significantly when I put my shoes on to do so.
Random thought #2 – Is there a good reason why the big game cannot start a bit earlier in the day? Waiting around the entire final day of the two-week break is mildly torturous.
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Overall the third quarter did not end well for Verizon. The nation's largest wireless carrier added just under a million customers while its biggest rival, AT&T, added nearly 1.5 million. One big swing comes from carrier-branded prepaid additions. Verizon lost 137,000 prepaid subscribers, while AT&T added 321,000, a swing of 458,000 subscribers. Where Verizon gained was in subscriptions from resale partners. Verizon added 550,000 resale partner subscribers, while AT&T added 406,000.
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Well surely they expected that to happen. Especially after being caught out for stealing from their customers. Not only that, but the competitive nature of the prepaid market is making it much more attractive to rather take a route such as net10 – where you can have an unlimited plan one month, and the next month you can downscale as much as you want without penalties. And here is verizon still dishing out ETFs. It'll be interesting to see how much of an effect the arrival of the verizon iphones will have.
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Comcast has offered to provide cable service to Chappaquiddick, but only if residents agree to pick up part of the tab for building the infrastructure needed to run wire to Martha's Vineyard's easternmost community.
Several Chappaquiddick residents at the forefront of the battle for cable service this week called the proposal dead on arrival. They contend that Comcast made the offer knowing it would be rejected.
Edgartown selectman Art Smadbeck took a more positive outlook. "It seems like we're really on the right track," he told The Times in a telephone conversation Tuesday. "It's not a final draft of anything. It appears that we're going in the right direction. Now we have to flesh it out."
Edgartown selectmen have insisted that the cable giant provide service to the small island. That demand has proven to be a stumbling block to the renewal of the company's Island-wide cable franchise contract.
The six Island towns and Comcast have wrangled for nearly two years over the terms of a new 10-year agreement that authorizes the company to provide Island-wide service.
Chappaquiddick Island Association (CIA) president Roger Becker, in a letter to selectmen published today in The Times (Page A12), strongly criticized the new proposal.
"It is unclear why the cable advisory board or the selectmen would entertain Comcast's proposal in any serious way," Mr. Becker wrote. "Comcast has suggested that on Chappaquiddick we should kick in $3,800 each to build a system that Comcast will profit from for years to come. Would any resident of Martha's Vineyard sign on to this deal? As Comcast apparently hopes, there is little chance 200 of the 500 property owners on Chappy will buy into such a plan, and so Comcast is essentially just saying no to Chappaquiddick."
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In what it calls its final proposal, Comcast said it would build the infrastructure to distribute its cable television and Internet service to Chappaquiddick at a cost of $1.58 million. The company wants Chappaquiddick residents to pay $824,000 of that cost. The cost would be divided up among the existing residents.
In its proposal, Comcast based the project cost on providing service to 540 homes. If the owners of 540 homes buy cable service, the capital cost for each home would be $1,526. If only 40 percent, or 216 homeowners decide to connect, the cost to each would be $3,815.
In addition to paying a share of the initial capital costs, residents would be required to pay for their own connections if their house is more than 250 feet from the main cable. Monthly cable fees for basic digital television service, $57, would be additional.
Mr. Becker said that on much of Chappy, housing density is within guidelines outlined in the agreement that covers the rest of Martha's Vineyard, and that Chappaquiddick residents should not have to pay high fees to extend the service to their homes.
Mr. Becker asked that town taxpayers finance the cable infrastructure, if Comcast will not.
"Is not Chappaquiddick part of Edgartown?" Mr. Becker wrote. "Edgartown, happy to collect taxes from Chappaquiddick property owners, should include at a minimum, Chappy's town roads in the Comcast license. Its capitalization should be financed by the profit makers at Comcast or if not, by the residents of Edgartown who are benefitting from Chappy's tax base."
Mr. Becker said Chappaquiddick residents pay $2 million annually to Edgartown in property taxes.
Peter Getsinger, past president of the CIA, is active in the effort to get cable to Chappaquiddick. He also criticised the Comcast offer.
"Unless the town thinks this is the best we're going to get, I think the only way this is going to fly is if the town agrees to front some of the money," Mr. Getsinger told The Times in a phone conversation. "What Comcast has offered is something they know is dead on arrival."
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Edgartown, with the support of other Island towns, has insisted that Comcast provide service to Chappaquiddick as part the new agreement. That position has been the main obstacle to an agreement as negotiations dragged into a second year.
Jennifer Rand, the West Tisbury town administrator, who is chairman of the Island's cable advisory committee, said the Comcast proposal seems viable.
"It will hopefully move it forward," Ms. Rand said. "There are some things we need to sort out, but you don't look at it and say 'no way.' You read it and say 'this might be workable.' We are moving forward."
She said the next step is to return to negotiations to iron out the few remaining differences in the proposals.
"The cable advisory board has a little more work to do," Ms. Rand said. "We'll go back and work with Comcast a little bit more and then come up with what is the final proposal."
Edgartown town administrator Pam Dolby called the Comcast proposal a fair agreement, if the company will make some modifications.
In a letter dated September 12, emailed to Chappy community leaders along with the Comcast proposal, Ms. Dolby raised questions about the total project cost, including the cost Comcast must pay to use NSTAR conduits to carry cable to Chappaquiddick.
"I would like to see some type of proof that this project will cost $1.58 million," Ms. Dolby wrote. "To date there has been no breakdown and no details of the NSTAR agreement."
The deal
The Island's cable advisory board, charged with negotiating a new 10-year contract for cable service, issued a request for proposals in February of 2011. As expected, Comcast was the only company that responded.
Under terms of the current license agreement, Comcast pays the town five percent of the cable television revenues it receives annually from an estimated 10,000 Island subscribers. The annual fees have been about $400,000, based on Comcast's annual Island cable revenues of $8 million, in recent years. Island officials and Comcast agreed to extend the current agreement four times, as the negotiations stalled. At one point, Edgartown pulled out of the contract negotiations, charging that Comcast was no longer communicating with town officials, nor taking Edgartown's concerns seriously.
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Mine has 215K on it. I take it offroading. Other than a few small problems electrically it has been perfect. Motor has started toburn about a quart of oil every 3,000 miles.
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In June 2000,I purcashed this Grand Wagoneer. I had seen them before, even in movies (What About Bob? with Bill Murray) and fell in love with the car. But I was waiting until I saw my color: malibu yellow, it was called. It had a terra cotta interior, all leather. I loved it. I already had 5 cars and a trailer. But not an SUV. I think this is the perfect SUV. I wish they still made them like this; and boy can this baby haul! I installed a trailer hitch to pull my Airstream and never had a problem! I love this car! And plus, its the last edition. Very collectible.
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J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) is a research network based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). More on «J-PAL»
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Swat Youth Front (SYF)
Saidu Sharif Swat, Pakistan
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Oxford, United Kingdom
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Maastricht, Netherlands
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Six Flags to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (SIX) the world's largest regional theme park company, announced today that it will participate in the following upcoming investor conferences:
- Wells Fargo Technology, Media & Telecom Conference November 8, 2012 at the New York Palace hotel in New York, NY
- UBS Global Media and Communications Conference December 5, 2012 (previously announced as December 4, 2012) at the Grand Hyatt New York hotel in New York, NY
- KeyBanc Consumer Conference February 27, 2013 at the Intercontinental New York Barclay hotel in New York, NY
Copies of presentations used at the conferences will be posted on the company's Investor Relations website at www.sixflags.com/investors.
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Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is the world's largest regional theme park company with $1.0 billion in revenue and 19 parks across the United States, Mexico and Canada. For more than 50 years, Six Flags has entertained millions of families with world-class coasters, themed rides, thrilling water parks and unique attractions including up-close animal encounters, Fright Fest and Holiday in the Park. For more information visit www.sixflags.com.
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Disappearing Palestine, Israel's Experiments in Human Despair by Jonathan Cook
London and New York
Jonathan Cook is a journalist based in Nazareth and previously was a staff journalist for The Guardian and Observer newspapers. He has also written for The Times, International Herald Tribune, Al-Ahram Weekly and Al Jazeera.
Palestine is not only fast disappearing, but on my way into London by underground yesterday it had finally gone, conclusively taken over by Israel. It is a fact that for the Israeli tourist board inviting us to come to sunny Israel, Palestine no longer exists. The colourful full size poster depicting Israel makes no mention of the lands of Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Heights. In the poster, they are all one. All Israel. So as a tourist do I expect to be able to swan around Palestinian lands? Gaza? The lies continue. The deception planted in our minds reinforced. The reality is far far worse.
Jonathan Cook is based in Nazareth, and well placed to report on Israel's daily attempts to crush the Palestinian spirit. He reports on its policies to disperse, imprison and impoverish the Palestinians. Israel has learnt everything from Dachau and Warsaw it seems with its curfews, checkpoints, walls, permits and land grabs. 42% of the West Bank is directly controlled by settlers; in Har Homa near Jerusalem families are given huge incentives to move in and take over. The Judaisation of Palestine continues unabated.
B'Tselem is Israel's foremost human rights group, it clearly delineates the destruction and continuing oppression of the people of Gaza, but their logic fails all of us when we are told to believe that Israel does this out of revenge for the capture of Gilad Shalit. So that's OK then, revenge is sweet, and justifiable in their eyes, the fury of killing 1400 Palestinians understandable? At least in Warsaw they didn't bomb the citizens to smithereens, but let them die slowly, as Israel is trying to do in Gaza, but the occupation is more than 40 years old, Shalit is a new phenomenon, and the noose tightens every day. Extremism becomes understandable when talking about Hamas, but Cook is keen to point out that like the IRA, Hamas has many factions, some of which promote aid to its people.
Cook is a fair reporter, he counters the usual attacks on dissenters of Israel, and tries to show how individuals make decisions outside of all norms of engagement. A grandmother in her 60's straps on a suicide belt and blows herself up close to Israeli soldiers. Who in their right mind has not thought about this while waiting for hours in the unbearable heat for the whim of a spotty faced IDF soldier to make a decision about life and death, about whether they will allow a baby in desperate need of heart surgery to pass through for treatment.
Human Rights Watch suffers the same myopia as B'Tselem it seems. Yes, it relates the horrors, but somehow it is the fault of 'the other side', Hamas, the Palestinians and so the double standard continues and groups set up to observe the situation just reinforce the stereotypes and Israeli propaganda. The young idealists who act independently of all these organisations, the hopeful journalists who once moved around the occupied territories, freelancers with no agenda but the truth, find it harder to put into practise what their professions demand. James Miller the cameraman is murdered, the activist Brian Avery's face is practically removed, and the litany goes on. Israel will not issue passes to those journalists it does not like, they all have to go through the hoops to get passes, and Israel absolves itself of all responsibility for its actions in those territories and continues on its murderous spree.
Cook should know that many young Gazans have left, and feel they can do more in the wider world in their battle for freedom; the Palestine Telegraph is proof of that and increases its readership by the hour. The staff make up a tiny but vocal proportion of the Palestinian diaspora with all the hopes of returning to a free Palestine. Cook is an excellent writer, well informed, and alongside Ilan Pappe essential reading for the region. Cook's 'Israel and the Clash of Civilisations' was published last year by Pluto Press (ISBN 9780745327549) and should be read alongside 'Disappearing Palestine'. The war on terror continues, having been shaped by Bush's desire to make Israel the sole regional power. Cook's style is compelling, he tells a horror story that you want to be resolved, you want to hear the ending. Cook is one of the most valuable observers on the ground, keeping a close eye on Israel's devastating human rights abuses, and its ever expansionist Zionist policies, using his knowledge and talent to further justice and peace in the Middle East.
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