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Church body condemns Israel

The group said Israel had planned the war, not reacted   Israel’s assault on Lebanon was planned before Hezbollah attacked and was aimed at driving a wedge between the different faiths in … Continue reading

17 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

From Mania to Depression By Uri Avnery

THIRTY THREE days of war. The longest of our wars since 1949. On the Israeli side: 154 dead – 117 of them soldiers. 3970 rockets launched against us, 37 civilians … Continue reading

17 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

In a military democracy, it is the warriors who call the shots By George Monbiot

The Guardian Tuesday August 15, 2006 The failure of the attack on Lebanon has left the Israeli people less secure, but it has done nothing to dent the generals’ power.

16 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Settlers on Israel’s eastern frontier By Gadi Algazi

Le Monde Diplomatique August 2006 The settlements of the West Bank built in the past decade, privately financed and publicly backed, have attracted nonpolitical Jews, both the well-off looking for … Continue reading

16 August, 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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