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Sri Lanka: Distant Voices, Desperate Lives – John Pilger

The Sri Lankan government used Israel’s actions in Gaza as their model for slaughter, Pilger writes. In the early 1960s, it was the Irish of Derry who would phone late … Continue reading

22 May, 2009 · 1 Comment

Retired US Colonel on IDF Abuses

Colonel W. Patrick Lang (Ret.) has an excellent blog at Sic Temper Tyrannis. Here is a sobering excerpt from a recent post describing his impressions of Israeli ground forces: In … Continue reading

11 January, 2009 · 1 Comment

Jesus, Mary and Joseph: a Semitic Christ!, or Season’s Greetings and Remember Gaza

For suitable exclamatory effect, you might wish to pronounce “Jesus, Mary and Joseph” in an Irish accent: it just sounds better.  If you glance to the right you’ll notice a … Continue reading

23 December, 2008 · 10 Comments

Dr H. in the Holy Land VII: Hebron and the Christian Peacemaker Teams

Hebron is a town that lies to the south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. In Arabic it is known as Al Khalil. We went by bus and the drive … Continue reading

27 July, 2008 · 4 Comments

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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