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May 20, 2006, Karen Coleman visits the Jewish Settlement of Eley Sinai inside Israel
A Tented Community of Jewish Settlers
Yesterday I visited a temporary settlement of Jewish settlers who’re living in pretty poor conditions in the tented community of Eley Sinai. About 40 families [230 people] have set up a community in the dusty field that’s close to the Israeli border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip. ...
May 14, 2006, Sunday Business Post
One US family’s heartbreak
Last Saturday night, as part of my habitual preparation for my Sunday radio show, I checked my emails and the internet for the latest news. There was one new e-mail in my inbox. It was from my friend Gilda Carbonaro, the mother of a young US marine sergeant on his second tour of duty in Iraq. When I saw the subject title of her email, my stomach twisted into a knot. Beneath the simplicity of its title was the story of a country polarised by a war that has been justified on the basis of erroneous information. ...
May 13, 2006, by Karen Coleman
Gilda's son is dead
I got a heart-wrenching email last Saturday from my lovely American friend, Gilda Carbonaro. Her son Alex, who was a sergeant in the US marines, had been on his second tour of duty in Iraq. He was first deployed in September 2004 and he managed to return safely from that posting. He married his beautiful fiancee, Gildita in May 2005. ...
April 3, 2006, Karen meets Carole
Coleman & Coleman
Carole Coleman and myself finally cleared up the confusion about our identities at the weekend. She was my guest of the week on my show on Newstalk106 – The Wide Angle with Karen Coleman. It must have been a bit weird listening to the two of us for those of you who thought we were the same person....
March 19, 2006, Sunday Business Post
Serbia must acknowledge Milosevic Evil
Martin Luther King once said: ‘‘The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” What a pity that stark proclamation never penetrated the mind of Slobodan Milosevic when he was wielding power with blood-stained fists during his years of dictatorship in Belgrade in the 1990s. Had Milosevic absorbed its poignant message, the wars that ripped Croatia and Bosnia apart may never have taken place, and tens of thousands of lives could have been spared....
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