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Highly Recommended Read | Annexing Lebanese Land and Water: ‘It’s About Annexation, Stupid!’ by Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Asia Times | Friday, August 4, 2006 Officially, Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon is an act of self-defense against Hezbollah’s threat, aimed at creating a security buffer zone until the … Continue reading

5 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

Visiting chorus: Egypt, Jordan and Spain call for cease-fire By Leila Hatoum

Daily Star Thursday, August 03, 2006 BEIRUT: Three foreign ministers visiting Lebanon on Wednesday agreed that there should be an immediate cease-fire as a first step to ending the Israeli … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

A night at the symphony in Damascus By Leila Buck

Leila Buck writing from Damascus, Syria, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006 EI Damascus, Syria: A window to a Middle East different than the one envisioned by Condoleezza and co. … Continue reading

31 July, 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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