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Lebanon war: the normalisation of barbarism By Ghassan Hage

[Abridged from a speech given by Allisar Gazel on behalf of Ghassan Hage at the 20,000-strong July 22 rally in Sydney against Israeli aggression. Gazel is the dean of anthropology … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Turning Lebanon into another Iraq

Green Left Weekly (Australia) August 2, 2006On July 23, defence minister Brendan Nelson announced that Canberra is willing to contribute armed Australian soldiers to a “robust” (meaning armed and prepared … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Pro-Israel And Pro-Lebanon By Mitchell Plitnick

TomPaine :: July 31, 2006 Mitchell Plitnick is director of Education and Policy for Jewish Voice for Peace and a regular columnist for Tikkun   Magazine. As Israel loses more soldiers … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

What if Israel can’t win militarily? By Gareth Evans and Robert Malley

Rice’s Fallacy 28 July 2006 Slate In explaining why the United States will not press right now for a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, Condoleezza Rice argues that merely returning … Continue reading

1 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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