本日何度も読み返した一節。

[George Orwell, "Anti-Semitism in Britain", 1945 より]

On the Palestine issue, too, it was DE RIGUEUR among enlightened people to accept the Jewish case as proved and avoid examining the claims of the Arabs--a decision which might be correct on its own merits, but which was adopted primarily because the Jews were in trouble and it was felt that one must not criticise them.

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Hutton Inquiry終了

BBCの概括記事：
The legacy of the Hutton Inquiry
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3138902.stm
↑まだ読んでいないです。

Independentの概括記事：
One death, five versions. Now is the time for Lord Hutton to judge
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=447124
↑まだ読んでないです。

Hutton Inquiry Timeline
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3099378.stm
※要Flash。ActiveXも許可しないとダメです。
（この内容ならふつーのHTMLでいーじゃんと思うのですが。）続きを読む

訃報：ロバート・パーマー死去。

Singer Robert Palmer dies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3142710.stm

名前を見て反射的に頭の中に突然パワーステーションが回り出すんですが，合掌。続きを読む

訃報：エドワード・サイード死去

まずはサイードの著作を日本語に翻訳しておられる方のサイト，RUR-55を。

[from The Guardian]
World-renowned scholar Edward Said dies ← 多分第一報
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1049793,00.html
Scholar Edward Said dies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1050035,00.html
Obituary: Edward Said
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1049931,00.html
↑どれか１つだけ読むとすればこれかな。

[from the Independent]
Palestinian, intellectual, and fighter, Edward Said rails against Arafat and Sharon to his dying breath
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/story.jsp?story=447097
↑Robert Fisk記事＝有料購読者のみ。（ei版）
……Obituaryなし？

[from BBC NEWS]
Palestinian scholar Edward Said dies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3140570.stm
↑案の定冷たい。

... google news results続きを読む

今朝の地震を報じるBBC記事。

Strong quake hits northern Japan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/3141074.stm続きを読む