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Literary Transformations of a Landscape Besides the Earth’s natural deserts, there are those created by humans, and this process of fertile land becoming desertified, usually referred to by the English term desertification, is documented early in literature. Even in ancient Babylonian cuneiform texts, the ambivalence of arid regions with
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(In the following text I presented my thesis on the "flexible ego of Israelis". It was written for an American Jewish magazine, below you will find a German version, published in print magazine Opus (Nr. 101, Nov. 2024). An extended German version was published on Achgut.com on
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(Text first in English, than in German) The relationship between Germany and Israel is of necessity a complex one. Given the fraught historical and political context one can easily get over-emotional. It would appear that this relationship, always fragile, is now close to breaking point. German by birth and
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Desert and Peace For decades, planet Earth has been undergoing a rapid process of desertification. Deserts, arid regions, and steppes are expanding worldwide—each year by an area roughly the size of Germany. While deserts have always existed due to climatic or geological factors, since the twentieth century, they have
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On the Current Situation of Israeli Arabs The new spokesperson for the Israeli army in Arabic is Lieutenant Colonel Ella Waweya, a Muslim Arab from the city of Qalansawe in central Israel, not far from the coastal town of Caesarea on the Mediterranean Sea, where Benjamin Netanyahu's villa