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You are terrorists, we are virtuous: Yitzhak Laor on the IDF

LRB | Vol. 28 No. 16 dated 17 August 2006  As soon as the facts of the Bint Jbeil ambush, which ended with relatively high Israeli casualties (eight soldiers died … Continue reading

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Learning from Its Mistakes By Charles Glass

LRB | Vol. 28 No. 16 dated 17 August 2006 In his memoir, Not So Wild a Dream, the famous CBS correspondent Eric Sevareid recalled watching the execution of six … Continue reading

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Lebanon’s Descent into Hell By Mike Whitney

ICH 10 Aug 2006 “I know I will die fighting them, then I will go to my God. But I will go to my God fighting like a lion. I … Continue reading

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It is Lebanon, not Israel, that faces a threat to its existence in this war By Ahmad Samih Khalidi

The Franco-US resolution is an absurdity: it would give Israel immunity while denying Lebanon the right to defend itself Guardian Thur 10 August 2006 As Lebanon is brought to its … 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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