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Howard government silent on human rights violations in Palestine and Lebanon

AUSTRALIANS FOR PALESTINE DEMOCRATS MEDIA Thursday 2 November 2006 SENATOR LYN ALLISON AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRATS LEADER Howard government silent on human rights violations in Palestine and Lebanon Senator Lyn Allison, Leader … Continue reading

4 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

The psychology of tikkun

Tikkun in Hebrew means to mend or heal, and tikkun olam (pronounced tee-koon oh-luhm) means “world repair” or to repair the world. It is the title of one of my … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

ACTME: Sheikh al-Hilali and the Wisdom of Solomon

News item: Sheikh will step aside, Muslim colleague says (ABC)   ACTME Press Release [with interesting misogynistic quotes from all three Abrahamic religions; see latter half]   AUSTRALIAN COMMITTEE FOR … Continue reading

30 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel: Another week, another rights report

SEE ALSO Breaking the Silence: Fmr. Israeli Soldier Tours U.S. to Expose Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Military (Democracy Now) Israel violates Palestinian prisoner rights-report 26 Oct 2006 10:05:24 GMT … Continue reading

27 October, 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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