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Stephen M. Walt on the myth of Israeli strategic 'genius'

Along with his co-author John Mearsheimer, no-one has been more responsible for starting to turn the tide in US academe towards a more sensible US foreign policy and away from … Continue reading

21 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

US Occupation Dollars For Israeli Houses

Overall, US government aid to the hafrada Israeli regime comes to almost $3 Billion a year. This Council for the National Interest (CNI) poster draws attention to US taxpayers mostly … Continue reading

20 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

Ashkenazim's Pawning of Mizrahim, Sacrificing Gaza

An immensely interesting and revealing piece that discusses the too-rarely broached internal racism of Israeli society by Smadar Lavie (‘Sacrificing Gaza to revive Israel’s Labor party‘). Israel’s racism against its … Continue reading

20 January, 2009 · 1 Comment

A Tale Of Two Summits

On Friday, an emergency summit took place in Doha to discuss ceasefire prospects for Gaza. In protest against the war on Gaza, Qatar and Mauritania had suspended ties with Israel … Continue reading

20 January, 2009 · 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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