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Ethnic cleansing, transfer them, they should be grateful

MK Benny Elon spells out, as reported by Gideon Alon, his “somewhat delusionary plan for the voluntary transfer of the Palestinians in the territories”: Let them move to Bulgaria. They’re … Continue reading

8 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

The emasculation of the IOF

From Gideon Levy’s piece in Ha’aretz entitled Listen to Maj. Gen. Stern (6 November, 2006) A bloodbath is taking place in Beit Hanun, the Israel Defense Forces runs rampant and … Continue reading

6 November, 2006 · 2 Comments

Dr Hanan Ashrawi’s Sydney Peace Prize address

Three years ago, a proud moment and triumph of reason over smear. Dr Ashrawi deserved the standing ovations she received both before and after her address. 2003 SYDNEY PEACE PRIZE … Continue reading

6 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Azmi Bishara on a ministry of strategic threats

Azmi Bishara is always a read I enjoy. In this week’s Al-Ahram Bishara writes that a Ministry of Strategic Threats comes right out of the theatre of the absurd that … Continue reading

5 November, 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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