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Category Archives: Human Rights

The torture and persecution of peace activists

August 9th, 2006 :: PeopleofLebanon.net Principle (6) of the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, adopted by UN General Assembly … Continue reading

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Angry MPs demand recall of parliament: Discontent over UK’s Lebanon policy

Patrick Wintour, Ewen MacAskill and Oliver Burkeman in New York The Guardian Wednesday August 9, 2006 Up to 100 MPs, most of them Labour, are to demand an immediate recall … Continue reading

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Surrender of Sovereignty or Ceasefire? Legitimizing Occupation through the UN by Muhammed Asadi

Selves and Others Tuesday 8 August 2006 The UN resolutions, aimed at “ending” the conflict in Lebanon (after all calls for a ceasefire were rejected by the US) is a … Continue reading

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Israel and the militarist mindset: Thinking in terms of the other side By Yitzhak Laor

Ha’aretz 7 August 2006 The Israel Defense Forces is not only the biggest local player in the economy and the economy of images, but it also has learned over the … Continue reading

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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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