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Category Archives: Middle East

Pro-Israel And Pro-Lebanon By Mitchell Plitnick

TomPaine :: July 31, 2006 Mitchell Plitnick is director of Education and Policy for Jewish Voice for Peace and a regular columnist for Tikkun   Magazine. As Israel loses more soldiers … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Opinion: Like it or not, Hezbollah is fact of life in Middle East

Like it or not, Hezbollah is fact of life in Middle East By Julie Flint (an ABC News correspondent in Lebanon from 1983 to 1990. She has lived in Lebanon … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Middle East and the Barbarism of War from the Air By Tom Engelhardt

 Aerial warfare has always been essentially directed against civilians Tom Engelhardt :: Mother Jones/ TomDespatch July 28 , 2006 Barbarism seems an obvious enough category. Ordinarily in our world, the … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why do they hate us? Listen to Qana (again) By Jonathan Cook

31 July 2006 Information Clearing House The crowds in Beirut last year demanding a Cedar Revolution, “the first shoots of democracy” supposedly planted by the United States, are a distant … 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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