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Isreality check: Bellicose and oblivious

1. Israelity check by Jan McGirk Open Democracy :: 31 July 2006 People in Jerusalem are keeping a nervous eye on the “situation”. But – amid thousands of evacuees from … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes For Indiscriminately Targeting Lebanese Civilians

Democracy Now Thursday 3 Aug 2006 HRW Emergencies Director Peter Bouckaert speaks from Beirut on the bombing of Qana, Israel’s use of cluster bombs, phosphorous weapons and depleted uranium. Earlier … Continue reading

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Why doesn’t Israel work for peace? By Silvia Tennenbaum

Holocaust victims would decry the slaughter of innocent children during attacks on Hezbollah Newsday 4 Aug 2006 As a Jew who escaped the Holocaust by moving with my family to … Continue reading

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Israel’s Bid to Reestablish Deterrence Is Failing by Ehsan Ahrari

AntiWar.com | 4 August, 2006  Israel’s war against Lebanon is about reestablishing its conventional deterrence. That is the ultimate goal, even though a frequently stated purpose of that war is … Continue reading

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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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