Homer

on Western culture and is hard to forget. It speaks of **conquest and destruction**, **greed, hatred and compassion**, **love and death**. **Homer’s Iliad** is, in a way, a mirror of the human condition. Even as it reveals that life is not always fair and is often subject to the will of the gods, it als

ible: "נֵַ֣צַח יִשְׂרֵָ֔אֵ֔ל לֹ֥אֹ יְשֵַׁ֖רֵּ֖ר" "The eternity of Israel will not falter". In the Jewish people’s epic journey from antiquity, in our odyssey through the tempest and upheavals of modern times, that ancient promise has always been kept and it will hold true for all time. To borrow a great po

Indeed, nearly three millennia ago, Homer wrote in the Iliad of a multi-handled mug. The tyg and its many counterparts around the world are tangible reminders not just of the fact that eating and d

ve overcome the greatest of adversities. And we re-established our sovereign State in our ancestral homeland, the land of Israel. The Jewish people’s odyssey through time has taught us two things: never give up hope and always remain vigilant. Hope charts the future, vigilance protects it. Today our hope f

Is it just and charitable to treat our brothers who set out on that painful Odyssey so harshly and contemptuously? To do so is to undermine the foundations upon which the longed-for peace must be based. The Dominican Republic is conv

rtain extent, as a guide in the future development of international relations. An episode in one of the classics of ancient Greek literature, Homer's Iliad, shed light on the significance of fixed rules governing the relationship between rulers and their subjects.

mong many other things, how to listen to others, but who today call on those others in an appeal for understanding of their own problems. This is the odyssey of a people, of a Government and its leader, and of an army which at a given point in its history decided, with epic courage, to put behind it the da

to in an epic dating back, to the ninth century B.C., engraved in cuneiform characters on tablets of clay, when we re-read in the passage of Homers' Odyssey describing the grotto of the Siren Calypso: "The perfume of the cedar spread to each nook and cranny, filling it with scented air", we understand tha

sident Stroessner stated, at the beginning of his outstanding work of leadership that the people is the source of the spirit that has made Paraguay's Homeric record possible in the history of the nations of the world. The people is the substance that nourishes us, that gives us strength to react the summit

w elapsed since the Soviet invasion, but the resistance of the proud Afghan people to a regime imposed from outside is stronger than ever. The tragic odyssey of those long-suffering people, great numbers of whom have been forced to leave their homeland and seek refuge in neighbouring countries, troubles us

nation in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The struggle for national liberation, which has already made a promising beginning in Latin America, is the Iliad of modern times in the making. Some day, if the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples has not previously been

of the puppet government of Hungary. Trustworthy cabled reports and the personal accounts of thousands of refugees speak with moving eloquence of the Odyssey of a people striving to throw off a shameful yoke. The flood of falsehoods and sophisms designed to convince us that the situation in Hungary is norm