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Category Archives: Israel Watch

A Year On: Survivors of the Summer War

These clips are from Al Jazeera a couple of weeks ago on the 27th July (H/T Norman Finkelstein), and a timely marker of the one year anniversary of Israeli government … Continue reading

11 August, 2007 · Leave a comment

Petitioning for social action

Do petitions matter? Do they help to effect social progress? In this 2 minute video Amnesty answer with a resolute (perhaps romanticised to some) yes. We do well to recall … Continue reading

30 July, 2007 · 10 Comments

Presidents On Preemptive War

Here is what past US Presidents’ stated positions have been on preemptive war (now updated with Barack Obama): Abraham Lincoln: Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he … Continue reading

29 July, 2007 · 6 Comments

Avigail Abarbanel on the Israeli Police State

Avigail Abarbanel is a psychotherapist and former Israeli resident who left Israel for Australia in 1991. In The Israeli Police State, Abarbanel writes a revealing piece on the psychologically abusive … Continue reading

14 July, 2007 · 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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