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Burston to Israeli society: ‘Rekindle your inner guerilla’

Death to Yuppiestan, or, Nasrallah was right By Bradley Burston | Ha’aretz | 18 August 2006 The largest city in Israel is under attack. And not a moment too soon. … Continue reading

23 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Burston confounded on categorising Hezbollah

Hezbollah is Not a Terrorist Organization By Bradley Burston | Ha’aretz | August 23, 2006 In the 1960s, when a computer in the home, a telephone in the pocket, and … Continue reading

23 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Riviera vs Citadel: the battle for Lebanon

Nadim Shehadi | Open Democracy | 22 August 2006 The historic contest between two visions of what Lebanon is and should be will shape the country’s direction after Hizbollah’s war … Continue reading

23 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Upbeat and full of promise: The New Arab World

Contrast with this view here by Alain Gresh that pessimistically foresees greater crisis and calamity in the region: ‘The Arab world’s silence has left the last word to those we … Continue reading

22 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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