I first met Bruce Hearn McKinnon at a Melbourne Football Club supporters function where he was introduced as a mentor of its then exciting indigenous recruit Liam Jurrah.
Tonight, we sit down to read about the liberation of the Jews from slavery back in the days of the Pharaohs. When we finally get through the part about our deliverance from Egypt, we eat because after all, who can reflect about this long history of overcoming evil and nasty tyrants on an empty stomach?
In less than two months, the Games of the XXX Olympiad will take place in London; a sporting pageant featuring athletes from over 200 nations competing in 26 sports and a total of 39 disciplines. The programme will cover nineteen days and hundreds of hours of competition and yet, the International Olympic Committee cannot find a minute to spare during the Games to honour the memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists forty years ago at Munich...writes Jack Chrapot.
I am in Jerusalem, a city enveloped in dismal gray shrouds of mist, clouds and rain delivered by freezing winds that originate in the arctic.
The cold chill I feel is not however, a product of the weather but stems rather from the book I recently finished reading - "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" by the controversial German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt.
The story of the AFL 'Peace Team' is one of them.
In 2008 a team comprising Palestinians and Israelis came to Australia for an international tournament. Sixteen teams from Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas contested the Australian Football International Cup but this one team was unique.
