Michael Donahue's Blog (5)

Dear Mr. Steiner, Just read your words forwarded to me by a co-worker. Both of us spend most of our time with teens from parts of the world in conflict, including a much forgotten island off the coast of Lebanon, & Syria labeled; Cyprus. I can hardly wait to forward this blog to a group of young men and women from Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt, & Morocco. (As well as flag to our web site, www.boldleaders.com ) They are university students spending a year in USA institutions as part of a progra… Continue

The below post is from a blogger who has his own site. I recommend you visit, in particular those of you upset about what is going on in GAZA. He really captures much of how I think, and I enjoyed responding. Sunday, January 11, 2009 Teaching Peace in Times of War I must comment on the sacred cow known as national unity. I am not aware , in Jewish history or in any other history, of a worthwhile achievement of ethical, social, intellectual or religious character, which was attained thanks to n… Continue

Ceyda, J08 Turkish Speaking Cypriot Bold Leader, recently emailed me an experience that left her upset and scared. It was on the day the Greek Speaking Community of the Republic of Cyprus, celebrates a protest of the declaration of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, (TRNC), existence. It seems a day so celebrated that students do not attend school in the Nicosia area often times urged by their adult educators to mass in large numbers of testosteroan fervor and teen macho induced posturing aro… Continue

A recent study conducted by the Centre for European Policy on the island distinguished clear similarities between the two communities that left me dumfounded when I witnessed little to no response from Cypriots. Then I read the report again. The lack of response. . .well sadly, makes the point. Here are a couple of paragraphs from a recent article published in the Cyprus Mail shortly after the report was published. I really appreciate the use of the term, "Cypriot" as I view much of the conflic… Continue

A socialist, a consort to terrorists, advisor to the PLO, a thief, a liar, shady, made his money with criminals, a criminal. . .a MUSLIM, (said with a sneer) godless, a non-citizen. . .un American, not American, a Jew hater. . .ender of Israel, baby killer, not patriotic, not a real American, gun stealer, ( don't let him get his dirty hands on your AK!) . .an immigrant. . .and not deserving, an AFRICAN, a purveyor of election fraud, connected to Chicago crime bosses, wants to "spread the wealth"… Continue