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Paul Kennedy’s Imperial Overstretch Revisited

Wide-ranging topic coverage in this interview with Paul Kennedy in Al-Ahram … includes commentary on Palestine and Israel, Egypt, Iraq and US Foreign Policy. I remember reading the broad-brush history … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Antony Loewenstein: Silence is Complicity

Brisbane Writer’s Festival :: 16/9/06 The recent war between Israel and Hizbollah revealed deep-seated denial within the Australian Jewish community. The Australian Jewish News editorialised on August 17: “One can … Continue reading

2 October, 2006 · 1 Comment

For the children: Education or mind infection?

Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Lecturer in Language Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem specializing in discourse in Israeli education with emphasis on visual and verbal presentation of Palestinian and … Continue reading

30 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Azmi Bishara: Precious clarity

With the roadmap dead in the water, Israel faces its most critical moment of decision ever: opt for lasting peace, or embark on perpetual war, writes Azmi Bishara Al Ahram … Continue reading

30 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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