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For some evangelicals, Mideast war stirs hope By Alexander Alter

Armageddon disturbed that this preposterous belief is actually held by American “Christians” who number in their millions … and hold posts of some influence *** Miami Herald Tue 8 Aug … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel and the militarist mindset: Thinking in terms of the other side By Yitzhak Laor

Ha’aretz 7 August 2006 The Israel Defense Forces is not only the biggest local player in the economy and the economy of images, but it also has learned over the … Continue reading

9 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israeli Intellectuals Love the War by Ran HaCohen

Ha’aretz 7 August 2006 All generalizations are wrong, except this one: Israeli liberal intellectuals are against war. They have always been against it, and they even suffered greatly for their … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

NYT Nasrallah Profile

August 7, 2006 | NY Times Politics: Arab World Finds Icon In Leader of Hezbollah By NEIL MacFARQUHAR DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 6 — The success or failure of any cease-fire … Continue reading

7 August, 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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