This movie has been out for some time, but I recently saw it and want to recommend it here. I have for some reason been avoiding it, thinking it would be an hurtful experience which good movies often can be. It is powerful, and creates the feelings I am sure the director wanted. This one brings my memories back to “Schindlers list”.The music, the pain, do you remember the little girl depicted in red in Schindlers list? A similar visual instrument is used in this animated documentary. The pictures are beautiful and the voices are real interviews from the real people involved in this story.

This time the roles are changed from the Nazi Germans hunting for jews. The Israeli army are the powerful, and the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are the week and the hated.

The biggest injustice and evil done in the aftermath of Lebanon 1982 is making the man responsible “Sharon” prime minister of Israel 20 years later.

Put this one on your “to see list”!

Read more about the movie below and

the history of Lebanon 1982 below.

Amoz Oz was recently in Gothenburg (where I live) promoting his newest book “Rhyming life and death”.

It made me pick up a copy of  Amoz Oz`s “how to cure a fanatic”. If you haven’t read it, it is a must read (and short read) for anyone interested in finding common ground with people you don’t necessarily like, and how to find a way to live together with people you dont really want to

live together with!

If you dont want to read it have a look at some of his thoughts on the Palestinian/Israel conflict.

Part one:

Part two:

I saw a documentary about Amos Oz tonight.

You can watch it here.

He says the following towards the end of the movie;

“we live now in a world where people work harder than they should be working in order to make more money than they really need, in order to buy things they don’t really want in order to impress people they don’t really like. this will lead to a certain reaction, and this reaction will brings back some kind of voluntary collectivist spirit.”

Amos Oz

Read more about this remarkable writer here, and read an interview with newsweek here.

I read threw the gospel of Mathew the other day and again it struck me how odd it is that we have made Judas into this horrible man. If you look carefully Peter and the other disciples betrayed Jesus in even bigger ways than what Judas did.

Judas actually regretted what he did and went back to the religious leaders with his money. In other words he withdrew his testimony about Jesus. If things had been done according to the book the accusations against Jesus should have been delayed and withdrawn.

This was not done,so the wrong was in the end not Judas fault but the religious leaders! Peters betrayal was on the same level as Judas betrayal too..

I read a fictional story about Judas which touched me when i first read it in Time magazine 1999. Click to read the story about Judas and Jesus!

Time magazine named Jan Egeland one of the 100 “people who shape our world”. I recomend his newly released book ” a billion lives.”

You can read more about Jan Egeland here.