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Growing up in Gaza, human and economic growth stunted by Israel

From this article about a boy’s hopeless vision of the future Half the population of Gaza is under the age of 18 Chronic malnutrition affects nearly 10 per cent of … Continue reading

4 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

2006 Sydney Peace Prize address :: Irene Khan

Congratulations to Irene Khan, this year’s recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize. Past recipients include Arundhati Roy, Hanan Ashrawi, Muhammad Yunus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Olara Otunnu. For those that … Continue reading

3 November, 2006 · 3 Comments

The psychology of tikkun

Tikkun in Hebrew means to mend or heal, and tikkun olam (pronounced tee-koon oh-luhm) means “world repair” or to repair the world. It is the title of one of my … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

They’re coming in thick n’ fast on apartheid state

I notice the official excuses from the apartheid state use protection from (and intelligence gathering about) terrorism as a pretext for these continued airspace violations. The usual hogwash to which … Continue reading

1 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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