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Monthly Archives: January, 2009

A Martial State: Picks

As previously noted, Israel has often be described as the “Prussia of the Middle East”, a military attached to a state rather than a state that has a military. (The … Continue reading

18 January, 2009 · 4 Comments

Gaza News Round-up

Israel finally halts its carnage as the clock ticks towards US President-elect Obama’s inauguration (the hafrada regime often calculates the timing its terror on the US political cycle), the horror … Continue reading

18 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

UN Warehouses and Reuters Hit: 'No Warning Given'

A short clip (minute and a half) of the impact of the Israeli attack against UNRWA a few days ago in Gaza from The Guardian. Israeli artillery fire damaged thousands … Continue reading

18 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

Castigated for displaying humanity as ’empathy with the enemy’: Israeli anchorwomen

Israeli Channel 2 anchorwoman, Yonit Levy, has recently been castigated by Israeli viewers and from within her network for her “anti-Zionist” views and for “weakening national morale” by expressing any … Continue reading

17 January, 2009 · 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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