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Gaza: The Human Dimension

A vignette that speaks volumes (though Pierre Tristram attaches a worthwhile read to this poignant photograph, excerpted below): Tristram writes: There are no good cancer cells and bad cancer cells … Continue reading

25 June, 2007 · Leave a comment

Exporting Apartheid: Israel’s war turned into a brand

I’ve just noticed this Naomi Klein piece, published in the Guardian last Saturday (16 June): How war was turned into a brand. It adds another dimension to the burgeoning ‘Homeland … Continue reading

23 June, 2007 · 14 Comments

Mapping Israeli Apartheid in the West Bank

The Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) comprises two areas, the Gaza Strip on the west coast, and the West Bank, further to the east, which, with East Jerusalem, should form the … Continue reading

15 June, 2007 · Leave a comment

June 2007, hopeful movement towards justice

UPDATED As the British academics UCU boycott bites (coming after UK union boycott calls from doctors, architects as well the National Union of Journalists in the last twelve weeks alone), … Continue reading

13 June, 2007 · 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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