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Australian flotilla survivors describe brutality: “I’ve never met anyone whose heart has become so hard”

Shot Australian Ahmed Luqman recalls flotilla ordeal on Australian public broadcaster ABC with his wife Jerry Luqman. Also check out Alison Weir’s excellent piece, While Israel Maims and Kills: the … Continue reading

10 June, 2010 · 1 Comment

Longer Helen Thomas clip released

A longer video clip (below) has now been posted of the full exchange between Helen Thomas and passersby that included Jewish students and David Nesenoff. The brouhaha that ensued led … Continue reading

9 June, 2010 · 5 Comments

Jews for Helen Thomas

I commend Medea Benjamin and Zool Zulkowitz for speaking up in defence of Helen Thomas within such a hysterically hostile media whip-up about her recent remarks. Also check out Robert … Continue reading

9 June, 2010 · 9 Comments

US Activists Onboard Gaza Flotilla Speak Out

U.S. activists on board the flotilla seized by Israeli commandos while trying to deliver aid to Gaza are speaking out.

9 June, 2010 · 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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