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Lobbying for Armageddon By Sarah Posner

AlterNet. Posted August 3, 2006 Some influential evangelical leaders are lobbying for an attack on Iran. But it’s not about geopolitics — it’s about bringing about the End Times. Rev. … Continue reading

6 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel does not act or speak for every Jew By Andrew Benjamin

SMH 5 August 2006 I WRITE as a Jew and as a synagogue member. I write as one whose academic work continues to move through questions of Jewish identity and … Continue reading

6 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Holding a Gun, Hezbollah Lends a Hand By Sabrina Tavernise

NY Times | 6 August, 2006 TYRE, Lebanon, Aug. 5 — Hezbollah paid for his wife’s Caesarean section. It brought olive oil, sugar and nuts when he lost his job … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Arab disquiet over Hezbollah

Neil Macfarquhar, Damascus | August 5, 2006 | The Age (Melbourne, Aust) THE faint echo of Israeli bombs exploding in the lower Bekaa Valley brings two fears to a Damascus … Continue reading

5 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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