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In a military democracy, it is the warriors who call the shots By George Monbiot

The Guardian Tuesday August 15, 2006 The failure of the attack on Lebanon has left the Israeli people less secure, but it has done nothing to dent the generals’ power.

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Settlers on Israel’s eastern frontier By Gadi Algazi

Le Monde Diplomatique August 2006 The settlements of the West Bank built in the past decade, privately financed and publicly backed, have attracted nonpolitical Jews, both the well-off looking for … Continue reading

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Offshoring to the West Bank: commercial and political exploitation of stolen land By Gadi Algazi

Le Monde August 2006 Residents of Modi’in Illit do not consider themselves settlers. The housing shortage has pushed large ultra-orthodox families to the settlement where they get public housing and … Continue reading

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Open Letter to Mike Wallace: Ahmadinejad Puts 60 Minutes Host to Shame by Michael K. Smith

Poor Mike Wallace — castigated by the Right for even interviewing Ahmadinejad at all, and severely criticised by the Left for doing what was never going to be anything other … Continue reading

16 August, 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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