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Avnery: There is no military solution

This war has Only one aim left: To save the prestige of Olmert, Peretz And Halutz. All the other aims Have gone up in smoke. There is no military solution. … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel’s Bid to Reestablish Deterrence Is Failing by Ehsan Ahrari

AntiWar.com | 4 August, 2006  Israel’s war against Lebanon is about reestablishing its conventional deterrence. That is the ultimate goal, even though a frequently stated purpose of that war is … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Venezuela withdraws Israel ambassador

Hugo Chavez has described his ‘indignation’ at Israel’s offensive in Lebanon   Al Jazeera Fri 4 Aug 2006 Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, said he has recalled his country’s ambassador … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Nasrallah Offer/ IDF drops leaflets over Beirut warning of upcoming strike

Noteworthy: “For the first time since fighting began 22 days ago, Nasrallah also said that his group would stop firing rockets on northern Israel in return for an end 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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