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Eid news: a hopeful development in the Middle East, at last?

Posted October 16th, 2007 by zeeshanhasan
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I’m not holding my breath, but it looks like the UN is finally doing its job of neutral mediation in the middle east. The UN human rights envoy for the Palestinian territories publicly stated two days ago that the UN should withdraw from the ‘quartet’ (US, Russia, EU and UN) to protest lack of concern for Palestinian human rights on the part of the other quartet members. Of course the UN has no power at all, except to lend legitimacy to mediation processes; so it’s completely appropriate that it withdraw under these circumstances.

Simulation and Postmodern Phantasmagoria

Posted May 9th, 2007 by bashirkareem
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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Palestinian Permaculture

Posted March 10th, 2007 by Hakim Baker
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See this Noble Savagery post.


The Crazy Palestinian’s page was one of my first introductions to the way of looking at design that is permaculture.


In other news, I’ll be in Denver, Colorado next week for a cool uncle’s memorial service.  There may be juggling.

Blair to finally push for real Middle East peace?

Posted November 13th, 2006 by zeeshanhasan
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With both Iraq and Bush's neocon strategy in tatters, Blair seems to have finally seen the light and realized that the only way to improve the situation is to get the focus back on Israeli/Palestinian negotiations:


Blair, was preparing a delicate but critical shift in his Iraq policy… to argue that "as the conflict has evolved, our strategy must evolve with it".


He will… insist, in words directed at the Bush administration, that no peace is likely across the Middle East without a solution to the Palestine-Israel crisis.

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