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Is This A Just War?: Michael Walzer’s Tortured Ethics By Mark LeVine

Tikkun | Mark LeVine is a Contributing Editor to Tikkun. He teaches in the Department of History at UC Irvine, and is the author of Why They Don’t Hate Us … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel and the Art of Sophistry: What is ‘brave’ about giving back something you have stolen?

by John McCarthy | Sunday, August 6, 2006 | Independent/UK In Tony Blair’s speech in Los Angeles last Tuesday, he said he was sickened by what was happening in Lebanon … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Real Estate War by Gideon Levy

Sunday, August 6, 2006 | Ha’aretz  This miserable war in Lebanon, which is just getting more and more complicated for no reason at all, was born in Israel’s greed for … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why doesn’t Israel work for peace? By Silvia Tennenbaum

Holocaust victims would decry the slaughter of innocent children during attacks on Hezbollah Newsday 4 Aug 2006 As a Jew who escaped the Holocaust by moving with my family to … Continue reading

4 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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