by Charles Cameron | Aug 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — don’t be fooled by the pretty colors, what you see is just a mass of data points artfully displayed ] . Here’s a fascinating graphic from the quantitative mode of analysis: I really don’t have much to say about this,...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a powerful video with strong implications for Israel and keen insight into Gaza — thus far the best I’ve seen ] . The video: I found this video extremely powerful. Lexington Green pointed us to it via a link in a comment on a...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from Gaza to Mt Sinjar and beyond, the universality and singularity of grief ] . One grief at a time is enough. It is “unbearable”, meaning that it arrives at the limit of what we single humans can possibly endure. How can one...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 6, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — two voices of moderation with a glimmer of hope — plus a recap of some recent posts of mine ] . Scott Atran, Ed Husain. Scott Atran, an anthropologist at France’s National Center for Scientific Research, John Jay College and the...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 5, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — of the Temple Mount and Noble Sanctuary, by way of Bamiyan and Timbuktu, the Cordoba Mezquita and Cathedral ] . The Temple Mount / Noble Sanctuary, then and now ** Today as I write this, it is Tisha b’Av — the day on which the...