The Peacock Spreads His Fan

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature
one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
--Aldous Huxley
Eyeless in Gaza

Leonard Cohen: Story of Isaac 1985

Hamas is regularly described as Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. One will be hard put to find something like democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus--blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel.
All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line,
hence dispensable.
--Noam Chomsky
Gaza in Crisis

BILLY BRAGG:
THE LONESOME DEATH
OF RACHEL CORRIE


Ship me somewheres east of Suez
where the best is like the worst.
Where there aren't no ten commandments,
and a man can raise a thirst.
--Rudyard Kipling



Jerry Garcia: Gomorrah 3/18/78