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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

Arab, Muslim nations express cautious hope for cease-fire plan

The Hindu 12 Aug 2006 Cairo, Aug. 12 (AP): Jordan’s Prime Minister called a U.N. cease-fire plan a critical “first step”,  and Turkey suggested on Saturday that it could send … Continue reading

12 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Finkelstein: Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination?

How many degrees of “civilianity” does Dershowitz have? Norman G. Finkelstein masterfully deconstructs Dershie’s latest apologetic rants in his latest essay available at his site here, as an 18pp word … Continue reading

12 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israelis ‘triple Lebanon force’

BBC Sat 12 August 2006 Israeli troops in Lebanon are now thought to number 30,000 Israel says it has tripled the number of its troops in southern Lebanon in an … Continue reading

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Hizbollah says it will abide by ceasefire

By Tom Perry 11 minutes ago BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hizbollah said on Saturday it would abide by any U.N.-backed ceasefire in Lebanon, but would resist Israeli troops expanding their offensive … Continue reading

12 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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