Benny Morris, the famed Israeli historian, argues in the New York Times that Israel will ‘almost surely’ attack Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next four to seven months. His scenario of the possible consequences is terrifying. Registration is required, so here is the whole article. It’s grim reading.It is indeed but I can't fault Morris's analysis of the situation - I've been thinking much the same thing for some time.
"I’m not sure about the new direction Pickled Politics has taken, of late."Oh good. It's not just me then.
Young people who carry knives will be made to visit hospitals where stabbing victims are treated, in a bid to shock them into changing their behaviour.Regardless of the effect it might have on the future behavior of offenders (which I imagine would be negligible), if you're lying in hospital having recently been stabbed, I would have thought the last thing you'd want is a bunch of young offenders on knife crime charges at your bedside. Still, what do I know, I'm not a politician.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said seeing "gruesome" injuries would be a tougher deterrent than sending all knife carriers in England and Wales to jail.
The most original contribution of "American Scripture" [is] Maier's setting both the congressional decision to break with Britain and the Declaration itself in the context of some 90 other "declarations" of independence issued between April and early July 1776 by Massachusetts towns; New York and Pennsylvania artisan and militia associations; counties in New York, Maryland and Virginia; South Carolina grand juries; and the provincial congresses of nine colonies.
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She is apparently the first historian to accord such attention to these local declarations, and in so doing, she greatly advances her argument that the Declaration of Independence was indeed "an expression of the American mind."
