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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

Understandascope: Leunig cartoon (1984)

Post-script: This Leunig cartoon receives consistent hits here and I think one reason is the uncanny similarity of part of the skyscape with the WTC Twin Towers – almost as … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · 1 Comment

In Israel, ceasfire seen as a concession; bellicose public mood; Hezbollah underestimated

How ceasefire hopes foundered on rock of Israeli public opinion :: Stephen Farrell in Metulla and Ian MacKinnon in Jerusalem The Times 1 August 2006 ‘There is no ceasefire. There … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israeli generals angry at Olmert’s restraint (!?!) By Harry de Quetteville in Jerusalem

Daily Telegraph 1 August 2006 Ehud Olmert awoke yesterday to criticism from his own generals for agreeing to a 48-hour suspension of air strikes in Lebanon without their knowledge. Ehud … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The king of fairyland will never grasp the realities of the Middle East George Monbiot

A US leader in his second term should have the power to rein in Israel. But George Bush is no ordinary president Tuesday August 1, 2006 The Guardian Of all … Continue reading

1 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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