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Its all about Israel saving face: ‘The search for an exit’

Guardian Leader | Friday August 11, 2006 The truth behind the diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting in Lebanon, a truth which also lies behind Israel’s threat to expand the … Continue reading

12 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Letter in Independent from enlightened British Jew

Independent 10 August 2006 Sir: As a Jew (albeit a non-practising one) I am increasingly fed up with hearing about “2,000 years of persecution” culminating in the Holocaust (letters, passim), … Continue reading

12 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

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

End This Tragedy Now: Israel Must Be Made to Respect International Law By Fouad Siniora

Fouad Siniora: Prime Minister of Lebanon Washington Post 9 Aug 2006 BEIRUT: A military solution to Israel’s savage war on Lebanon and the Lebanese people is both morally unacceptable and … Continue reading

11 August, 2006 · 1 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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