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Surrender of Sovereignty or Ceasefire? Legitimizing Occupation through the UN by Muhammed Asadi

Selves and Others Tuesday 8 August 2006 The UN resolutions, aimed at “ending” the conflict in Lebanon (after all calls for a ceasefire were rejected by the US) is a … Continue reading

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Left or Right, Israelis Are Pro-War By STEVEN ERLANGER

Because its not about the occupation and systemic abuse of innocents and infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank or daily humiliations and land clearing and illegal settlements and an … Continue reading

9 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel and the militarist mindset: Thinking in terms of the other side By Yitzhak Laor

Ha’aretz 7 August 2006 The Israel Defense Forces is not only the biggest local player in the economy and the economy of images, but it also has learned over the … Continue reading

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Into the Valley of Death By Tim Llewellyn

Counterpunch 8 August 2006 I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.” Macbeth Israel’s capacity to shed … Continue reading

9 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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