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Category Archives: Middle East

Not in My Name By Nour Odeh

The Electronic Intifada, 30 July 2006 A demonstrator leaves a placard in a Lebanese army post outside the UN house, 30 July 2006. (Christian Henderson/(IRIN) Words are cheap when used … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon war: the normalisation of barbarism By Ghassan Hage

[Abridged from a speech given by Allisar Gazel on behalf of Ghassan Hage at the 20,000-strong July 22 rally in Sydney against Israeli aggression. Gazel is the dean of anthropology … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Stop the war: Israel out of Lebanon and Gaza! By Pip Hinman

Green Left Weekly (Australia) Aug 2 2006 edition A holocaust is engulfing Lebanon. Hundreds of civilians are dead, thousands injured. Entire villages and suburbs have been destroyed. The United Nations … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Turning Point At Qana By Rami Khouri

July 31, 2006 Tom Paine Rami G. Khouri is editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. The Israeli attack that killed … Continue reading

1 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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