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Delusional Expectations by John Chuckman

I’d only qualify Chuckman’s contention about moving into a “bad neighbourhood” – Arab hospitality is legendary and an ancient tradition. The region’s positive transformation can only be helped by being … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

No peace without Hezbollah, says Beirut

SMH Colum Lynch and Glenn Kessler in New York August 4, 2006 LEBANON’S acting Foreign Minister, Tarek Mitri, doubts that his government would agree to a European-led intervention force in … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Wither the Israeli peace movement?

Avnery and Gush Shalom are voices in the wilderness even more so now. What’s wrong with Israeli society and this mass / collective insecurity and oblivion to terror and pain … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Better to Tell Truth Than Parrot Propaganda By Warren Goldstein

I don’t necessarily agree with Goldstein’s refusal to accept democratically elected Hamas and the political, non-militant part of Hezbollah (he doesn’t distinguish), but the rest of his sentiments I support … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · 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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