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Israeli Laureate: Indeed there is Apartheid in Israel

Shulamit Aloni is an attorney, teacher, journalist, human rights activist and Israeli Prize laureate. Aloni also served as a Member of the Knesset continuously from 1974-1996, serving on the following … Continue reading

6 January, 2007 · 1 Comment

Happy Birthday Khalil Gibran

Full Name: Gibran Khalil Gibran | جبران خليل جبران Born: January 6, 1883 — Bsharri, Lebanon Died: April 10, 1931 — New York City, USA Occupation(s): Poet, philosopher, artist, painter, … Continue reading

6 January, 2007 · 4 Comments

Gush Shalom on Provocation in Ramallah

In case you missed this, even as Ehud Olmert was meeting Egypt’s Hosni Moubarak, a deadly raid and blatant provocation was being conducted in the heart of downtown Ramallah. Four … Continue reading

5 January, 2007 · 3 Comments

Historical geography of global religion in 90 seconds

Interesting site – http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html See also: Imperial history of the Middle East in 90 seconds (condensing 5000 years of history) and American Leadership and War (231 years of history condensed … Continue reading

4 January, 2007 · 7 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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