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Walls turn into fact of life in West Bank city of Hebron

by Florence Biedermann Tue Sep 5, 12:20 PM ET | Yahoo News Walls within walls; racist Israeli settlers invoke an murder act in 1929 to justify their land theft and … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon: Unexploded bombs hamper rural recovery

IRIN, 5 September 2006 RAS AL-AIN/ TYRE – Now that war is over, farmers are returning to their land in southern Lebanon only to find their crops destroyed and their … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Amira Hass: The slippery slope of expulsion

Ha’aretz | Tue 5 Sept 2006 When a Civil Administration officer at the Beit El military base extended the tourist visa of Sam Bahour, a Palestinian-American businessman from Ramallah, and … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel blockade on Lebanon prevents oil spill clean-up

by Salim Yassine Mon Sep 4, 12:49 PM ET BEIRUT (AFP) – The Israeli blockade on Lebanon is preventing the widescale intervention needed to clean a massive oil slick caused … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · 2 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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