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Category Archives: Palestine

A Girl Called Jewel

The extended Al Samouni family, some 48 men, women and children, were targeted in their homes by the israeli occupation forces in the south of Gaza. Almost all of them … Continue reading

6 January, 2010 · Leave a comment

Labor for Palestine: ‘The BDS campaign is particularly relevant to US workers’

US Labor for Palestine have a terrific Open Letter from U.S. Trade Unionists to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Boycott Apartheid Israel, with thanks to Charlotte Kates of L4P. Sanctions alone … Continue reading

16 December, 2009 · 2 Comments

Mark Braverman: ‘I think we Jews need to look in the mirror … and stop looking backwards’

Mark Braverman draws upon his own journey as a US-raised Jew with a Jewish Palestinian family background and frankly — refreshingly! — talks about the connection between Jewish identity and … Continue reading

14 December, 2009 · Leave a comment

Outdoing the Kafkaesque: Egypt’s new US-designed underground Gaza wall (updated)

UPDATE 1:  Paul Woodward applies a healthy dose of skepticism to these early reports. I’ve added his observations with his kind permission (see below). UPDATE 2: Sherine Tadros reports from … Continue reading

11 December, 2009 · 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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