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Uri Avnery: Sorry, Wrong Continent

Another thoughtful rumination from our favourite veteran Israeli peace activist. This dispatch is about how misplaced regional identity contributes to the I-P conflict and how this Israeli self-image and worldview … Continue reading

26 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

John Berger rallies artists for cultural boycott of Israel

***See the original document at the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)*** See also John Berger’s article in the Guardian: We Must Speak Out · … Continue reading

16 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Channel surfing on Middle East TV

Its always a curious, interesting experience watching foreign language TV without subtitles. You can learn and discern a lot culturally, even without fully understanding the dialogue. At my parent’s place … Continue reading

15 December, 2006 · 15 Comments

Andy Singer’s Artful Juxtapositions

“Whether arguments command assent or not depends less upon the logic that conveys them than upon the climate of opinion in which they are sustained.” Carl Becker, 1938 Cartoons often … Continue reading

11 December, 2006 · 8 Comments

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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