I have been reading the press and looking at the online news media and there is nothing which captures the utter despair and desperation of the bulk of the Lebanese people better than the art work of Mazen Kerbaj. Please visit his online slide show here and you will see what I mean. This is stunning anti war art which so graphically points up the complete uselessness of war. Those twin anti christs George Bush and Tony Blair see the conflict in Lebanon as a totally mechanical thing devoid of human beings. This is totally unacceptable, artists such as Mazen who keep working despite the bombing show us all that humanity is stronger than purely idealogical or religious concerns. When Blair talks about changing values in Middle East countries he points to the death of freedom and the end of dissent. With this image and all his work Mazen shows us all that we must never allow artistic expression to be diluted through fear and terror, even when we are scared shitless
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