On one side, we find Benedict Arnold,who initally joined the American Revolution against the crown ofBritian. He won several battles. Later, he conspired with Britishforces and arranged to hand to them the fort at West Point, New York.Arnold avoided arrest, and made his way to the British side, lateracheiving the rank of general. He later explained his action in letter to the inhabitants of America.
Throughout history, views of certainpersonalities change from villains to heroes or fromterrorists/militants to freedom fighters.For example, both Menachem Begin, and Yitzhak Shamir, who later became prime ministers of Israel, were once wanted terrorists by the British.Ramush Haradinajof Kosovo also comes to mind. As an ex-rebel leader in Kosovo his actions were questioned.
This article explores how our assessment of certain figures and movements is subject to biases and prejudices. The notion of: "One people's terrorist is another people's freedom fighter", or as the saying goes: "One people's hero is another people's villain".Let us first start with examples of how some people are viewed differently, either from the dimension of time, or the dimension of society.
Various Israeli media, such as Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz (citing Reuters as the source) report that the Israeli government has honored several Egyptian Jews who were involved in spying and sabotage in Egypt in the 1950s. This incident is known as the Lavon Affair, and extensive material on the incident can be found in Israel and Terror in Egypt.
Yessin Ashmawy was in the E.G.C. from 1973 to 1982. This is the picture from his Prep 3 class. I recognize Mr. Wali on the left.
The following pictures are provided by E.G.C. alumni who visit our web sites and like to share photos with the rest of us.If you have class photos, or pictures from events at the school, or of its building and facilities, please share them by contacting us.
A Church of England offical, David Stancliffe, Bishop of Salisbury, has stated that Charles, Prince of Wales, 'must atone' for his conduct, i.e. committing adultery with Camilla Parker-Bowles and apologize to Camilla's ex-husband.
I ported three very nice looking Drupal themes from 4.4 to 4.5 and 4.6.All of them were designed by Chris Messina (a.k.a. FactoryJoe), who works with Civic Space Labs, and other Democrat oriented political activism web sites.The themes are:
Chris has a very distinctive style, and attention to detail. He themes every aspect of Drupal, including things which other themes usually don't bother to theme the admin menus, and such.
Another Drupal module that I wrote is the customerror module.This module eliminates the need to have the 403 and 404 errors as real nodes that get listed.
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