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Category Archives: Middle East

“Positive Conditions” – The Water Crisis in Gaza By Alice Gray

By Frubious Bandersnatch | Bethlehem Ghetto | 9 August 2006 The political rhetoric and frequent violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict often serve to mask underlying environmental issues which, if not … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

For some evangelicals, Mideast war stirs hope By Alexander Alter

Armageddon disturbed that this preposterous belief is actually held by American “Christians” who number in their millions … and hold posts of some influence *** Miami Herald Tue 8 Aug … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Flashback 1982 + Day 29 By Anne Penketh

Independent 10 August 2006 Israel has approved a major escalation of war by voting to send thousands of fresh troops deeper into Lebanon in an expanded offensive echoing its invasion … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Baghdad morgue count rises again

BBC Wed 9 August 2006 Baghdad morgue count rises again The mortuary now receives up to 70 bodies a day Officials at Baghdad mortuary say they received 1,855 bodies in … Continue reading

10 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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