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Statement on Gaza by United Nations Humanitarian Agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territory

UNICEF 3 August 2006 The United Nations humanitarian agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territory are deeply alarmed by the impact continuing violence is having on civilians and civilian infrastructure … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes For Indiscriminately Targeting Lebanese Civilians

Democracy Now Thursday 3 Aug 2006 HRW Emergencies Director Peter Bouckaert speaks from Beirut on the bombing of Qana, Israel’s use of cluster bombs, phosphorous weapons and depleted uranium. Earlier … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Mezan Press Release: IOF Enter Rafah; Killing Continues

Mezan.org 3 August 2006 Press Release 171 killed, including 34 children, since the June 2006 IOF incursion of Gaza

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Illogical, illegal and ill-fated By Nasim Zehra

ICH 2 Aug 2006 Continuing with her theme on the pangs of birth of a new Middle East the US Secretary of State aboard her plane en route to Asia … Continue reading

4 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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