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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

Jewish and Arab women unite against war by Brenda Gazzar

Women’s E-News 4 Aug 2006 Haifa – In recent weeks, Abir Kopty and Hannah Safran have demonstrated nearly every day against Israel’s conflict in Lebanon and Gaza. Even as the … Continue reading

14 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Guns fall silent after UN-brokered truce in Lebanon

Guns fall silent after UN-brokered truce in Lebanon August 14, 2006 Guns fell silent across southern Lebanon on Monday after a U.N.-brokered truce went into effect to end five weeks … Continue reading

14 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Will Israel Defy The UN Again? by Thalif Deen

NEW YORK (IPS) – A cartoon in a U.S. news magazine many moons ago showed a Palestinian family huddled together in a refugee camp, as U.S.-supplied Israeli fighter jets kept … Continue reading

14 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Beirut, modern jazz and the new Middle East By Nizar Ghanem

Common Ground News August 2006 There is a kind of beauty in jazz, a broken beauty, so-to-speak, contradictory in nature yet very complex. New things are discovered while listening to … Continue reading

14 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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