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Palestinians in Gaza largely cut off from outside world

Report, IRIN, 6 September 2006 Palestinians crossing between Gaza Strip and Egypt after the re-opening of Rafah border crossing. They were able to leave fenced-in Gaza without having to submit … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Rima Merriman: Let My People In

The Electronic Intifada, 4 September 2006 (Image: Maureen Clare Murphy)   An undeclared Israeli policy is currently in effect. The policy denies entry at Israeli borders to nationals of foreign … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bush Aims to Kill War Crimes Act

by Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith | The Nation | September 5, 2006 The US War Crimes Act of 1996 makes it a felony to commit grave violations of the … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Walls turn into fact of life in West Bank city of Hebron

by Florence Biedermann Tue Sep 5, 12:20 PM ET | Yahoo News Walls within walls; racist Israeli settlers invoke an murder act in 1929 to justify their land theft and … Continue reading

6 September, 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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