Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space

Creating people's geographies

Category Archives: Diplomacy

A tale of two racist slurs: Israel

Wonder what the legal punishment is for such abhorrent statements? The Israeli Ambassador seems only to have been slapped on the wrist. 1. Israel curtails term of Australia envoy after … Continue reading

1 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

ACTME: Sheikh al-Hilali and the Wisdom of Solomon

News item: Sheikh will step aside, Muslim colleague says (ABC)   ACTME Press Release [with interesting misogynistic quotes from all three Abrahamic religions; see latter half]   AUSTRALIAN COMMITTEE FOR … Continue reading

30 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel’s scandalous siege of Gaza

By Patrick Seale | International Herald Tribune | 27 Oct 2006 Israel has killed 2,300 Gazans over the past six years, including 300 in the four months since an Israeli … Continue reading

28 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Shortage of anti-semites

Also see the priceless Reuters article ‘Don’t mention the war: Israel seeks image makeover’ — Wake Up From Your Slumber’s review at Shhh! don’t mention WAR – israel seeks ‘makeover’ … Continue reading

27 October, 2006 · 2 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"


Categories