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NYT Letter by Patrick Connors: There are Dissenting Israeli Voices

Letter to the Editor 9 August 2006 Read this letter as a response to recent article here (‘Left or Right, Israelis Are Pro-War‘ by Steven Erlanger) Dear Friends at The … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Grave Consequences of Supporting War in Lebanon By Scott Ritter

Alternet 9 Aug 2006 With Israel waging an all-out war against the forces of Hezbollah, and the death toll in terms of civilian casualties mounting on a daily basis, the … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Who? Me?! By Israel’s Voice of Conscience Uri Avnery

TODAY, THE war entered its fifth week. Hard to believe: our mighty army has now been fighting for 29 days against a “gang” and “terrorist organization”, as the military commanders … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

YNet’s Chomsky interview

Apocalypse Near Following intellectuals’ letter, Prof. Noam Chomsky explains his doctrine, discusses danger of Israel’s nukes compared to ‘Iranian threat,’ global media’s role in escalating Mideast conflict and US’s place … Continue reading

10 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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