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You are terrorists, we are virtuous: Yitzhak Laor on the IDF

LRB | Vol. 28 No. 16 dated 17 August 2006  As soon as the facts of the Bint Jbeil ambush, which ended with relatively high Israeli casualties (eight soldiers died … Continue reading

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Learning from Its Mistakes By Charles Glass

LRB | Vol. 28 No. 16 dated 17 August 2006 In his memoir, Not So Wild a Dream, the famous CBS correspondent Eric Sevareid recalled watching the execution of six … Continue reading

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Six Lessons from the London Airline Bombing Plot By John Tirman

John Tirman.com 10 August, 2006 What we now know about the London-based plot to destroy ten civilian airplanes points to six conclusions. First, what stopped this plot was law enforcement.  … Continue reading

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Annan warning over Gaza situation

  BBC Thursday 10 Aug 2006 Israel has been carrying out operations in Gaza for six weeks The war in Lebanon and northern Israel should not distract attention from events … Continue reading

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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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