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Siege Notes by Rasha Salti – first hand account of living through the assault on Lebanon

London Review of Books | Vol. 28 No. 15 dated 3 August 2006 14 July. I am writing from a café in the Hamra district of West Beirut. The electricity … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Future History: A Glimpse of What U.S. Lebanon Policy Could Spawn

by Lawrence Pintak Published on Thursday, August 3, 2006 by CommonDreams.org   Read full article here (opens in a new window, unless your browser allows tabbed browsing – right click … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes For Indiscriminately Targeting Lebanese Civilians

Democracy Now Thursday 3 Aug 2006 HRW Emergencies Director Peter Bouckaert speaks from Beirut on the bombing of Qana, Israel’s use of cluster bombs, phosphorous weapons and depleted uranium. Earlier … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why doesn’t Israel work for peace? By Silvia Tennenbaum

Holocaust victims would decry the slaughter of innocent children during attacks on Hezbollah Newsday 4 Aug 2006 As a Jew who escaped the Holocaust by moving with my family to … Continue reading

4 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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