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Leaders agree to UN truce timing

BBC Sunday 13 August 2006 A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah will come into force at 0500 GMT on Monday, the UN Secretary General has said. Kofi Annan announced … Continue reading

13 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

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

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

Johan Galtung on the Middle East

3rd.August 2006 [email protected] The unspeakable tragedy unfolding in this sixth Israel-Arab war should force us to focus on what peace might look like. The building blocs are clear, but they … 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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