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Principled Dutch ASN Bank ends relations with Veolia

By Adri Nieuwhof | ei | 26 November 2006 This week, ASN Bank, a Dutch bank based in The Hague,1 announced that it would end its relationship with Veolia Transport, … Continue reading

28 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Palestinians: Who’s their Mandela?

The Palestinians: Who’s their Mandela? Review, The Economist, 25 November 2006 and rep at ei The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood By Rashid Khalidi, Beacon; … Continue reading

27 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Uri Avnery: An Evening in Jounieh

The opening anecdote makes me wonder whether the Israel and Lebanon right-wing “elites” are not all that different at a sociological level … of course the fascist-inspired Phalange were Israel-allied … Continue reading

26 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Hopes for peace as Hamas agrees to truce

One only hopes Agreement with Israel could lead to release of captured soldier, a new Palestinian government and an end to Gaza incursions Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv Sunday November … Continue reading

26 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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