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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

Beirut, Tripoli, Byblos, Tyre … via Rudyard Kipling

Travelling to Brisbane I noticed a new (co-authored) Arthur C. Clarke novel in one of the airport bookshops. Arthur C. Clarke is one of my favourite sci. fi. authors and … Continue reading

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Robert Fisk: A NATO-led force would be in Israel’s interests, but not Lebanon’s

The Independent 1 August 2006 Every foreign army – including the Israelis – comes to grief in Lebanon. So, how come George Bush and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara – … Continue reading

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Oren Ben-Dor’s follows up on his article on terrorism in the ME

Letters The Independent UK 29 July 2006 Sir: My article “Who is the Real Terrorist in the Middle East?” (26 July) was about the relationship between stifling debate about the … Continue reading

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Opinion in Jordan Times: Strong message needed

The Jordan Times 1 August 2006 It is time we in Jordan sat down and seriously examined our relationship with Israel. Israel is a pariah state. Next year it will … Continue reading

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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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