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Date: 30 December 2004 12:13:36
I am getting on with the task of setting up my pizza business in Wenceslas Square, Prague. Hopefully you will all come to my new restaurant, Deep Pan: Crisp & Even.
It was quite terrible on Sunday, reading the psalm set in the book I'm currently following - it was all about God causing mighty waters to rise and people being swept away. A tragic coincidence, I know, but brought home that underlying much scripture is a conviction that God does destroy people, which is hard to swallow on the day after Christmas.
This morning I began reading one of the books I got for Christmas - Gorbechev's Memoirs. An extraordinary man, though last time I saw him on TV was on the Clive Anderson chat show, where he followed on after Steve Coogan performing his Spanish crooner character. Bit sad, really - a bit too much like Spitting Image's "I used to be Prime Minister, you know" routine for Thatcher.
Been doing more thinking about the Arab-Israeli conflict, and something I said about the reasons for the Arab war against Israel in 1948. I can no longer dismiss this as simply anti-Semitism - after all, Israel was arguably occupying other people's property, even if the UN said it was ok. Trying to work this through, I think we need an international law that isn't based on the sovereignty of states or the might of governments, but rather on the simple principle that no-one - no Jew, no Israeli Arab, no Palestinian, no Greek, no Turk, no Cypriot, no Darfurese, no anyone - should be driven from them their own home by force.