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Lebanon rejects UN truce proposal which it claims favours Israel

Oliver Burkeman in New York and Clancy Chassay in Beirut Monday August 7, 2006 Guardian Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, piled pressure on Hizbullah to comply with the … Continue reading

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Moroccan Jews ask court to try Amir Peretz for war crimes

By The Associated Press | Ha’aretz Last update – 20:20 03/08/2006 Three Jewish Moroccans have submitted Rabat’s high court with a petition against Defense Minister Amir Peretz, accusing the Moroccan-born Israeli of … Continue reading

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One Ring to Rule Them By Juan Cole

Informed Comment :: Sunday 6th Aug 2006 The wholesale destruction of all of Lebanon by Israel and the US Pentagon does not make any sense. Why bomb roads, bridges, ports, … Continue reading

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Israeli Intellectuals Love the War by Ran HaCohen

Ha’aretz 7 August 2006 All generalizations are wrong, except this one: Israeli liberal intellectuals are against war. They have always been against it, and they even suffered greatly for their … 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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