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The Wall: impact and consequences, video

While the introduction and conclusion of the narration leaves something to be desired (it is not “democracy” that is being installed in the Middle East, it is being actively subverted … Continue reading

10 February, 2008 · 3 Comments

‘Art Attack’: meet the new creative dissenters

See also More guerilla graffiti in the Holy Land: Israel’s apartheid barrier as a canvas Amid the illegal occupation and the murderous blockade of Gaza by the IOF, here’s some … Continue reading

18 January, 2008 · 1 Comment

On This Day in Peace History: the Greenham Common Women and other inspiring people power episodes

A very Happy New Year to you and yours. May 2008 be a good one for you personally and a more peaceful one for the world. We remember that these … Continue reading

31 December, 2007 · 9 Comments

Open Bethlehem: the campaign to free an occupied city

Every Christmas this site has focused upon Bethlehem, birthplace of Christ, historically a beautifully polyglot community where Christians, Muslims and Jews coexisted peacefully before the founding of Israel in 1948. … Continue reading

21 December, 2007 · 3 Comments

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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