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Avnery: Junkies of War (Recommended Read)

Email Despatch FOR ME it was a moment of shocking revelation. I was listening to one of the daily speeches of our Prime Minister. He said: “We are a wonderful … Continue reading

6 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel does not act or speak for every Jew By Andrew Benjamin

SMH 5 August 2006 I WRITE as a Jew and as a synagogue member. I write as one whose academic work continues to move through questions of Jewish identity and … Continue reading

6 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Missiles neutralizing Israeli tanks By BENJAMIN HARVEY

Associated Press / Yahoo News  Sat Aug 5, 1:35 AM ET Hezbollah’s sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps the guerrilla group’s deadliest weapon in Lebanon fighting, with their ability to pierce … Continue reading

6 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

A terrible thought occurs to me – that there will be another 9/11 By Robert Fisk

The Independent  | August 5, 2006   The room shook. Not since the 1983 earthquake has my apartment rocked from side to side. That was the force of the Israeli … Continue reading

6 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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