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Why America Needs Hezbollah By Ted Rall

Information Clearing House Hours after a ceasefire halted a five-week war between Israel and Iranian-backed Islamic militias in Lebanon, reported the New York Times, “hundreds of Hezbollah members spread over … Continue reading

19 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

State-within-a-state: mirror images in the Middle East

I thought this was a great observation by Randy Marks on TKCollier’s blog, and he has kindly consented to my quoting it: After WW2 the Brits left Palestine and there … Continue reading

19 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Start Talking to Hezbollah – New York Times Op-Ed By Lakhdar Brahimi

NY Times 18 August, 2006 What a waste that it took more than 30 days to adopt a United Nations Security Council resolution for a cease-fire in Lebanon. Thirty days … Continue reading

19 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Villagers Cheer as Lebanese Army Marches Into the South by Robert F Worth

NY Times 19 Aug 2006   BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 18 — Villagers danced in the streets and threw rice on Friday as the Lebanese Army’s soldiers reached the southern border … Continue reading

19 August, 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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