http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:00:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/09/this-conflict-in-the-holy-land-must-end-for-the-children%e2%80%99s-sake/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/09/this-conflict-in-the-holy-land-must-end-for-the-children%e2%80%99s-sake/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:26:00 +0000 Emanuel Stoakes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26124 The enduring fact of the failure of peace in the so-called Holy Land is a royal spring of misery from which bitter tensions flow, with mournful consequences for the entire restive middle-east region, already strained by wars and rumours of wars.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/09/this-conflict-in-the-holy-land-must-end-for-the-children%e2%80%99s-sake/feed/ 295 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:00:26 +0000 Emanuel Stoakes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25464 The bodies were no longer there. Nonetheless pieces of brain, pools of blood and other human remains indicated that a massacre had taken place in the village of Qubair in Syria’s brutalised Hama province. The victims likely included children, according to eyewitness reports. The outrage was preceded by acts of venality and civilian slaughter in [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/feed/ 16