From Minister Celso Amorim to Secretary Hillary Clinton

Message from Minister Celso Amorim to the Secretary of State of the United States of America, Hillary Clinton

Minister Celso Amorim sent, on January 21, the following message of congratulations to the Secretary of State of the United States of America, Hillary Clinton:

“Her Excellency
Mrs. Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State of the United States of America

I am most pleased to congratulate you upon taking office as Secretary of State, while offering my warm wishes for your success at this juncture when the profound transformations in the international system make diplomacy and dialogue even more crucial.

I share the confidence that you have demonstrated, time and time again, in strengthening multilateralism and building consensus, both of which are essential tools for achieving the goal of establishing an international order that is more balanced, inclusive and fair.

You take office at a particularly auspicious time in the relationship between Brazil and the United States. I am certain that we will work together to create new opportunities for bilateral partnership and for strengthening the friendship that unites our two peoples.

I reiterate my wish to have an early opportunity to congratulate you in person and to begin our joint endeavors at a mutually convenient date.

Warm regards,

Celso Amorim
Minister of Foreign Relations.”

From the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations site.

The Gaza strip conflict

My beloved teacher, we are going to talk about this text tonight. By now, I tried to correct your appointments. Thank you in advance.

The conflict we are testifying, between the State of Palestine and Israel has its origin at the banishment of Jews from Judea (It would be called Palestine only on 19th century) by the Roman Empire on 135 A.D. This fact gave rise to Zionism, doctrine whose core is the reestablishment of the Israeli State and the largest concentration possible of Jews in an anonymous national unity, situated in the ancient Judea.
In 1897, the first Zionist World Congress created the Zionist World Organization, with purpose of raising funds to the Jewish National Fund, which would buy proprieties in Palestine. From that beginning, the immigration to that area increased potentially, and in 1947 there were more than six hundred thousand Jewish people living there.
This immigration was broaden by the Nazism persecution, when more than six million Jews were sacrificed, creating thus an exodus of this population to Palestine. On May 14th, 1948, the State of Israel declared its independence, not accepted by the Arab community, represented by Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and The Emirate of Transjordan, that invaded the new nation a day after it was born.
In spite of being a newborn nation, Israel was victorious on its first campaign, conquering an eight thousand squared kilometers territory, including Nazareth and the western side of Jerusalem. Cisjordan and Gaza strip were refuge for more than five hundred thousand Arabs.
Since then, Israel got in three more belligerent events. The most significant was six-day war, from June 5th to 10th, in 1967, with the Israeli occupation of Sinai, Jerusalem and Cisjordan, redrawing the Middle East map.
Nowadays, only in Gaza strip, there are more than one million and five hundred thousand Arabs living in destitution and poverty. Because of this historical situation, Israel and those communities which support them have been targets of terrorist groups’ attacks.
Some analysts say there is only one alternative to this conflict: the 'one-state' solution, where Palestinian and Israeli population would share the territory from the Mediterranean coast to Jordanian border. As the world has seen, missing diplomatic relations do not aim to a peaceful solution in a medium term.

The Gaza Strip Conflict

The Zionism and the Palestinian people.
The conflict we are testimony, between the State of Palestine and Israel has its birthplace at the banishment of the Jews from Judea by the Roman Empire on 135 A .D. This fact origineted the Zionism, doctrine which core is the reestablishment of the Israeli State and the concentration of the larger number of Jews as possible on an anonymous national unity, situated in Palestine .On 1897, the first Zionist World Congress created the Zionist World Organization, with the purpose of raising funds to the Jewish National Fund, which would buy proprieties on Palestine . From that beginning, the immigration to Palestine increased potentially, and in 1947 there were more than 600 thousand Jewish people in Palestine .This immigration were broaden by the Nazism persecution, when more than 6 million Jews were sacrificed, creating thus an exodus of this population to Palestine . On may 14th of 1948, the State of Israel declared its independence, not accepted by the Arab community, represented by Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and the Emirate of Transjordan, that invaded the new nation at the day after it was born. Despite of being a newborn nation, Israel was victorious on its first campaign, conquering an 8 thousand km2 territory, including Nazareth and the western side of Jerusalem . Cisjordan and Gaza strip were the refuge for more than 500 thousand Arabs. Israel got in three more belligerent events after 1949. The most significant were the six-days war, from June 5th to 10th, in 1967, with the Israeli occupation of Sinai, Jerusalem and Cisjordan, redrawing the Middle East map.
Nowadays, only in Gaza strip there are more than 1.5 million of Arabs living in destitution and poverty. Because of this historical situation, Israel and those communities which supports them, has been targets of terrorist groups attacks.

Time Pink Floyd

Time Pink Floyd

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

Is it any wonder

Is it any wonder?
KEANE

I.. I always thought that I knew
I'd always have the right to
be living in the kingdom of the good and true and so on
But now I think I was wrong
and you were laughing along
And now I look a fool for thinking you were on...

My side,
Is it any wonder I'm tired?
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight?
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right?

Sometimes it's hard to know where I stand,
it's hard to know where I am,
Well maybe it's a puzzle I don't understand.
Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm
stranded in the wrong time
where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme, a soundbite

Is it any wonder I'm tired?
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight?
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right?
Oh, these days, after all the misery you made,
Is it any wonder that I feel afraid?
Is it any wonder that I feel betrayed?

Nothing left inside this bold cathedral,
just the sad, lonely spires,
How do you make it right?

Oh, but you try,
Is it any wonder I'm tired?
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight?
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right?
Oh, these days, after all the misery you made,
Is it any wonder that I feel afraid?
Is it any wonder that I feel betrayed?

First Entry

Today we're talking about go and been to.

Mr. Freitas is not here. He went to a meeting.
Have you ever been to Mexico? (once in your lifetime).

Direct Speech
"How IS my accomodation going to be?"

Indirect Speech
Tell me how my accomodation IS going to be.