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Amid dire world conflict, more expressions of friendship and goodwill

Don’t know about you in this Christeidhanukwanzaamas, but I’m exhausted. Seems that just when you get a break after a busy year, the body says to itself “OK, you can … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · 8 Comments

Juan Cole: Top Ten Myths About Iraq 2006

A most valuable compendium of important myth-busting facts by Mid East scholar Juan Cole, cutting a swathe through the continued blind or wilful distortion and dis/misinformation spun from AIPAC-pushed failed … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Christmas in Bethlehem

As we enjoy our Christmases, another Christmas passes under occupation in Bethlehem, multifaith community and birthplace of Christ. Earlier this month the Mayor of Bethlehem, Dr. Victor Batarsa, held his … Continue reading

25 December, 2006 · 1 Comment

Jonathan Cook: The Recognition Trap

Another excellent, must read ME article from Cook. See also the always worthwhile Virginia Tilley’s latest article, What Are You Going To Do Now, Israel, Counterpunch (15 Dec) Why Hamas … Continue reading

16 December, 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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