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A Tale Of Two Summits

On Friday, an emergency summit took place in Doha to discuss ceasefire prospects for Gaza. In protest against the war on Gaza, Qatar and Mauritania had suspended ties with Israel … Continue reading

20 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

White phosphorus in Gaza: the victims

Ayman al Najar, 13, tells how he lost his sister, grandfather and cousin After the jump: Phosphorus bombs in Gaza: the medical evidence

20 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

Omnia Sol Temperat

Another musical interlude, one of my favourites from Carl Orff’s splendid Carmina Burana. UPDATE: I’ve replaced the audio file with a more accessible audio .mp3 file format that should be … Continue reading

19 January, 2009 · 2 Comments

The Six Day War Deceptions: A Historical Corrective

These excellent Dutch videos are an important historical corrective to one of the widely propagated founding myths of the state of Israel, that in 1967 its Six Day wars, which … Continue reading

19 January, 2009 · 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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