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June 2002 June 30 2002 New Zealand poet Stephen Oliver's from The Still Watches is a personal, fabulistic journey through time, place, and people. June 27 2002 Two kids fighting in a sandbox By Robert Rosenberg I have to admit I'm of two minds about President Bush's speech of June 24 2002. There is nothing that would be better for the region if the Palestinians were to get into some serious democratic nation building, not only for their sake, and the sake of enabling a genuine peace with Israel, but for the sake of the whole region -- and to a large extent the world -- proving that yes, the Arabs can construct a fully democratic state. And obviously, on the way to that happening, Israel will have to give up the settlements, which have drained the Jewish state's morally, financially, and politically, and as the president pointed out, threaten Israel's security by threatening its own democracy. So, ostensibly, I should wholeheartedly be in favor of everything Bush said. My problem is not with what he said, but what he didn't say... To the full article. June 24 2002 New poetry by Janet I. Buck at the Ariga poetry zine, Visions June 22 2002 Who will stand up for Israel -- on American anti-Semitism, anecdotally, by Kimberley Moore June 20 2002 Rabbi Arthur Waskow sends in this poem, which sums up the problem with all the reporting about the conflict nowadays: The News: Fill in the Date IDF kills x, Bomb kills y, Hamas takes responsibility, PA denounces, Sharon threatens, IDF attacks, Bomb kills x. Is this a poem? -- My poetry professor says its nouns are too abstract. It is a poem Only in a world where arms legs screams skulls tears shattered beds and shattered buses blood and vomit the earth of grave and grave and grave and grave no longer matter. Is this a disquisition in ethical philosophy, Making a statement, False or true, that deed and deed are morally equivalent? It is philosophy Only in a world where arms legs screams skulls tears shattered beds and shattered buses blood and vomit the earth of grave and grave and grave and grave no longer matter. Is this an accurate AP report of history, And why does it begin where it begins? The only accurate AP reports are written on a Moebius strip With no beginning and no end It is an accurate/ inaccurate report Only in a world where arms legs screams skulls tears shattered beds and shattered buses blood and vomit th earth of grave and grave and grave and grave no longer matter. -- Arthur Waskow June 12 2002 The Brain Drain A brief history of the mounting anti-intellectualism and irrational political thinking that has taken over Israel since 1967, by Robert Rosenberg. Also uploaded today, a new poet at Ariga -- Louis Faber, earns his living as an attorney and lives as a poet. He sent in Another Ghetto, a brief, lovely, and chilling poem. Indeed there's lots of new poetry at Ariga. Just click into Visions, Ariga's e'zine. June 10 2002 The latest issue of bitterlemons.org is called Fences and walls What makes bitterlemons so good is that it presents Palestinian and Israeli viewpoints on prominent issues of concern, maintaining complete organizational and institutional symmetry between its Palestinian and Israeli sides. Ghassan Khatib and Yosi Alpher write separately, and they sometimes bring in others, whether more or less moderate/extreme/leftist/rightist/hawkish/dovish -- take your pick -- but they always maintain the dialogue, presenting both views with equal weight, and equal thoughtfulness. It's one of the best webs for getting views and opinions from both sides of the conflict -- and more importantly, proving that people from both sides can work together. Visit bitterlemons -- and bookmark it. June 6 2002 Janet Buck is back with two poems, one on the Megiddo Junction bombing, and the other on The Zeinhom Morgue fire; Stephen Oliver debuts at Ariga with Come to me, Notice me, Love me, a desert song or incantation taken from a group of Coptic texts known amongst Hebrew and Middle Eastern Scholars as the "Ennoia" Folio, from the Greek, meaning 'A Thought,' seventh century B.C.; and Doug Tanoury appears for the first time here with Cloud Boulevard and other Poems. June 5 2002 PeaceWatch has been updated; and Ariga took the liberty of reposting A brief history of missed opportunities, by Amnon Barzilai. This article originally appeared in Ha'aretz on this week's 35th anniversary of the Six Day War. It sums up the tragedy of how Israel lost the Six Day War (which it won in the first three hours) by not seizing the obvious opportunity. Petty politics, messianic hysteria, and a euphoria that would be smashed by the 1973 Yom Kippur War six years later, got in the way. May 2002
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