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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

Sharon Set the Stage His Heir Reacts On By Ethan Bronner

NYT | August 6, 2006 TOWARD the end of last month, well into Israel’s war with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, Ariel Sharon suddenly seemed to shudder. He had lain in … Continue reading

6 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon rejects draft U.N. resolution By Lin Noueihed

Washington Post :: Sunday, August 6, 2006; 8:36 AM BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon rejects a draft U.N. Security Council resolution to end 26 days of fighting because it would allow … Continue reading

6 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Case for Boycotting Israel by Virginia Tilley

Counterpunch | Aug 5-6 2006 It is finally time. After years of internal arguments, confusion, and dithering, the time has come for a full-fledged international boycott of Israel. Good cause … Continue reading

6 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Cartoons from both sides (Leb. not being a ‘side’ as much as caught in the crossfire!)

  From Carlos Latuff And this one, which I found wholly unconvincing, because amongst other more specific reasons, no side has a monopoly on virtue or vice: Here’s to a … Continue reading

6 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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