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Justice Is Dead, If You’re Born an Arab By Lubna Hussain

Arab News 4 Aug 2006 EXCERPT: If Bush, Blair and Olmert truly believe that their war crimes in Lebanon are going to crush the influence of Hezbollah they not only … Continue reading

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Beirut: a city in war By Paul Cochrane

Open Democracy 3 Aug 2006 Three weeks into the war with Israel, the capital of Lebanon is a city damaged, deserted and in limbo. Paul Cochrane reports. Modern “greater Beirut” … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Siege Notes by Rasha Salti – first hand account of living through the assault on Lebanon

London Review of Books | Vol. 28 No. 15 dated 3 August 2006 14 July. I am writing from a café in the Hamra district of West Beirut. The electricity … Continue reading

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For Israel, innocent civilians are fair game By Peter Bouckaert

International Herald Tribune | 3 Aug 2006 TYRE, Lebanon Mideast — The voice of Mohammed Shalhoub, 61, a farmer from Qana, still quivers with shock and exhaustion. He was in … Continue reading

5 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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