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Amira Hass: Doors of re-entry shut to Palestinians

01 October 2006 :: Ha’aretz AMMAN – Seven months after Swedish citizen Somaida Abbas was refused entry through Ben-Gurion International Airport, the insult can still be heard in every sentence … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Peace Now: Building in illegal outposts stepped-up during war

By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service According to Israel Radio, the Peace Now organization reports that building in illegal outposts in the West Bank was accelerated during the … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Paul Kennedy’s Imperial Overstretch Revisited

Wide-ranging topic coverage in this interview with Paul Kennedy in Al-Ahram … includes commentary on Palestine and Israel, Egypt, Iraq and US Foreign Policy. I remember reading the broad-brush history … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Antony Loewenstein: Silence is Complicity

Brisbane Writer’s Festival :: 16/9/06 The recent war between Israel and Hizbollah revealed deep-seated denial within the Australian Jewish community. The Australian Jewish News editorialised on August 17: “One can … Continue reading

2 October, 2006 · 1 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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