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More settler encroachments under the cover of war

One can see why the Israeli state is so war-happy, nay bellicose – it maintains critical political support for more land theft. The way it is framed even in this … Continue reading

25 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Gush Shalom ad in Haaretz, Sept. 22

Refreshing to read a good citation of this quote as an antidote to the tired refrain from the Israeli establishment that “there is no partner for peace” – hogwash and … Continue reading

25 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Release Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails

Portraits of jailed Palestinian legislators occupy seats during a special session in the PLC headquarters in Ramallah. (Fadi Arouri, Maan Images)

25 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Doomsday Code (or ‘cult’?)

What a ‘revelation’ (boom tish) – these apocalyptic ‘end-time’ evangelicals are the biggest obstacle to peace, I’m sure I’m not the first person to opine. My Christianity is NOT theirs … Continue reading

24 September, 2006 · 4 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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