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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

Deborah Orr: Israel has turned Gaza into a prison

Israel has turned Gaza into a prison. There can only be one reason for such inhumanity. Reports from eyewitnesses say that farmers trying to protect their land are being beaten … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · 2 Comments

The Making of Issa: A Child of the Israeli Invasion

By Rana El-Khatib | Counterpunch | September 2 / 3, 2006 Beirut. In 1982, Issa was five years-old. That year, Israel invaded Lebanon killing over 19,000 Lebanese civilians and more … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · 1 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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