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Avnery Despatch: The 155th Victim

WITH A few words, a Lebanese army officer destroyed, the day before yesterday, the illusion that Israel had achieved anything in this war. At a televised Lebanese army parade that … Continue reading

20 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Mazen Kerbaj Latest

Kerblog knot knot knot TODAY beirut’s sky is blue and i hear honks and the hitachi is sleeping i filled up the car with gas i drew with colors BUT … Continue reading

19 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why America Needs Hezbollah By Ted Rall

Information Clearing House Hours after a ceasefire halted a five-week war between Israel and Iranian-backed Islamic militias in Lebanon, reported the New York Times, “hundreds of Hezbollah members spread over … Continue reading

19 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

State-within-a-state: mirror images in the Middle East

I thought this was a great observation by Randy Marks on TKCollier’s blog, and he has kindly consented to my quoting it: After WW2 the Brits left Palestine and there … Continue reading

19 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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