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Category Archives: Diplomacy

Israel and total war Felicity Arbuthnot

Al-Ahram 10-16 Aug 2006 International law is rendered irrelevant as Israel, in Lebanon now as well as Gaza, targets whole populations for slow yet purposive extermination, writes Felicity Arbuthnot* The … Continue reading

11 August, 2006

Finnish FM: Israel destroying Lebanon, not Hizbullah

YNet 10 August 2006 Erkki Tuomioja: ‘Europeans never believed there was a military solution to the conflict in Lebanon… Everyone always seems to think they have to come out in … Continue reading

11 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

France and Lebanon: diplomacy of tragedy By Patrice de Beer

Open Democracy 10 August 2006 The Lebanese war has allowed France’s president to re-energise his own and the country’s political profile, says Patrice de Beer in Paris. The war in … Continue reading

11 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Grave Consequences of Supporting War in Lebanon By Scott Ritter

Alternet 9 Aug 2006 With Israel waging an all-out war against the forces of Hezbollah, and the death toll in terms of civilian casualties mounting on a daily basis, the … Continue reading

10 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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