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Off its rocker: apartheid state beating war drums

While the UN high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, condemns massive human rights abuses in Gaza even as Israel launches raids, the fear-mongering about Iran by Netanyahu continues, with … Continue reading

21 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Criminalising Compassion in the War on Terror

Muslim Charities and the Case of Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir Saturday November 18th, 2006, by Katherine Hughes | Selves and Others “The first question which the priest and the Levite … Continue reading

20 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israeli settler hospitality

Swedish human rights worker viciously attacked by Israeli settler November 18th, 2006 | ISM A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by an Israeli settler in … Continue reading

19 November, 2006 · 4 Comments

Gaza strike called off because of people power in Beit Lahia (2006)

*** Please note this is a post from November 2006 **** Just added: Sabbah posits a dissenting but nevertheless compelling view IDF calls off strike after hundreds guard Gaza militant’s … Continue reading

19 November, 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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