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Charles Sullivan: Why I am a “Terrorist”

ICH | 3 Sept 2006 According to the twisted logic recently espoused by Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, the failure to support illegal, immoral and unnecessary wars defines one as … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Naguib Mahfouz: a farewell tribute

Trevor Le Gassick | Open Democracy | 1 Sept 2006 The great Cairo novelist illuminated a century’s changes in Egypt and other Arab lands. His loss is also the world’s, … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Talking to the neighbours: It’s time Israel embraced the Mideast

Pretty sensible and innovative to me – I think this Israeli is a visionary of sorts. Having Arabic on the Israeli school curriculum and valuing Arab culture would do wonders … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel, the traumatised bully

A perceptive (and one of the few sane) comments in the reader feedback section on Ha’aretz online. Ha’aretz is the better Israeli daily, though it still attracts the racist, intolerant … Continue reading

1 September, 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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