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A bird's eye view of the vineyard
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew (10:26) and Saint John (8:32)
Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety. His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.
Holy Prophet and King David (Psalm 145:3-4 according to the LXX)
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
Arundhati Roy
Thou shalt not be a victim.
Thou shalt not be a perpetrator.
And above all,
Thou shalt not be a bystander
Yehuda Bauer
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against itHenry George
In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary actGeorge Orwell
Each small candle lights a corner of the darkRoger Waters
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.Mahatma Gandhi
I am for truth, no matter who tells it.
Malcolm X
Lowkey
I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win.
Richard Stallman
4 comments:
debka.com is reporting that the israeli "ground invasion" has not made serious advances or realized any significant objectives so far. apparently hamas' military capacities have not been degraded. as a result, debka says that only an massive urban conflict would diminish hamas militarily. hamas needs to resist the ceasefire options being presented currently by Egypt and the US, and fight for a better hand at the table.
@anonymous: I am not too fond of Debka, to put it mildly, but I have to say that the piece you are referring to (full link here: http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5824) actually seems very plausible to me. Funny to think that the best info so far would come out of Debka, of all places!
But yes, while I would rate the source as a highly untrustworthy one, I would rate this specific report as a very plausible one.
Amazing times :-)
PS: oh, and just to make one thing clear - in my comment above I am referring to Debka's assessment of what this operation has achieved or failed to achieve so far, not to their (silly) claim that most victims are Hamas fighters rather than civilian.
VS
yes, i meant to add that too: debka is generally untrustworthy but this report seems fairly honest in terms of describing the military "advance" and dilemma.
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