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Category Archives: Middle East

Israel’s cluster bombs and alleged phosphorus use have escaped attention

Mideast Weapons Deserve Scrutiny :: 2 Aug 2006 :: FAIR On July 24, Human Rights Watch reported that Israel was using cluster bombs “in populated areas of Lebanon,” which it … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The refugees’ fury will be felt for generations to come By Karma Nabulsi

Israel is seeking to cast itself as the victim even as it expels the people of Lebanon and Gaza from their homes Karma Nabulsi Wednesday August 2, 2006 The Guardian … Continue reading

2 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The most unsuccessful war By Ze’ev Sternhell

  Ha’aretz :: 2 Aug 2006 No situation can continue to exist for long without an ideological reason. That’s how when once it was clear that it was not achieving … Continue reading

2 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

How the War Will End Karim Makdisi

LRB | Vol. 28 No. 15 dated 3 August 2006 | Karim Makdisi Direct article link here I was in Japan with my wife when we heard the news. The … Continue reading

2 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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