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Monthly Archives: September, 2006

Robert Fisk | American and Muslim: six million people in search of an identity

3 September 2006| The Independent Seattle businessmen, students, Miami housewives… Well, what did I expect, asks Robert Fisk at the Chicago Muslim convention A guy with brown eyes and dark … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Gideon Levy: Gaza’s Darkness

Ha’aretz | 3 Sept 2006 Gaza has been reoccupied. The world must know this and Israelis must know it, too. It is in its worst condition, ever. Since the abduction … Continue reading

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Lebanese lawmakers start sit-in against Israeli blockade

Xinhua | 3 Sept 2006 Lebanese lawmakers, headed by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, launched an open-ended sit-in in parliament on Saturday protesting an Israel-imposed blockade on Lebanon. “The continuation of … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · 1 Comment

Lebanon’s Favourite Joke

Spotted at Doug’s Dark World and derived from this Al Jazeera article: An Israeli recently arrives at London’s Heathrow airport. As he fills out a form, the customs officer asks … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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