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“And still, it continues …”: Lebanese bloggers react to massacre at Qana

various writing from Lebanon, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006 Today in the Lebanese village of Qana, over 54 civilians, including at least 34 children, were killed in Israel’s most … Continue reading

31 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

Dahr Jamail Daily Despatches From Beirut: Israeli Chest Beating — While Losing the War

EXCERPT: In a televised address this Tuesday, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, said the Israeli attack on Lebanon is an attempt by the U.S. and Israel to “impose a … Continue reading

30 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

Protests against Israeli aggression all over Europe by Adri Nieuwhof

The Electronic Intifada, 25 July 2006 Thousands of demonstrators marched through Amsterdam on Saturday to protest against Israeli attacks in Lebanon and the refusal of the Dutch government to condemn … Continue reading

27 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

Who condemns the victimiser? By Maarten Jan Hijmans and Fadi Hirzalla

Electronic Intifada 25 July 2006 “Every neighborhood has one, a loudmouth bully who shouldn’t be provoked into anger. He’s insulted? He’ll pull out a knife. Someone spat in his face? … Continue reading

27 July, 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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