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301 [lbo-talk] Palestinian NGO's make decision to boycott the Madrid Social Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East -- rank: 1000

Among the progressive Palestinian and Israeli community, this has been big news. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has apparently been putting pressure on the Spanish Foreign Ministry to force the coordinating committee of the Madrid Social Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East to invite the Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, etc. to a conference that was explicitly set up to include only those individuals and organizations that were willing to sign a Declaration of Principles Reference Document. ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Dec 13 07:40:46 PST 2007

302 [lbo-talk] Meron Benvenisti: The Annapolis Conference in the Shadow of the One State Reality -- rank: 1000

The Annapolis Conference in the Shadow of the One State Reality On 28 November 2007, Meron Benvenisti presented a lecture in West Jerusalem at the monthly Last Wednesday Forum of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), which it hosts together with its outreach center Daila. Meron Benvenisti served as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem under Teddy Kollek from 1971 to 1978, administering the city s annexed Palestinian sectors. In 1982, he established and directed the West Bank Database Pro ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Dec 4 02:12:20 PST 2007

303 [lbo-talk] Realizing the Dream in the Middle East with Martin Luther King III? -- rank: 1000

Realizing the Dream in the Middle East with Martin Luther King III? Written by Holly Kilroy and Jessie Levene for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/realizing-the-dream-in-the-middle-east-with-martin-luther-king-iii-20070828.html Amid much pomp and great expectations came a symposium this Monday, the 27^th of August, with Martin Luther King III, entitled, Realizing the Dream in the Middle East. At the Hebrew University s campus on Mount Scopus, ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Aug 29 01:01:26 PDT 2007

304 [lbo-talk] Chronicle of a Cemetery: Museum of Tolerance Planned on Muslim Heritage Site in West Jerusalem -- rank: 1000

By the way... A week ago, we finalized a contract with a US dedicated server hosting service and have begun setting up our website there. It is in the testing stages, and will probably be the public site in about a week. It is amazingly faster and more responsive than the situation we have now (which has the server sitting in our office in Jerusalem and sharing the ADSL bandwidth of 5mb download/512kb upload with all the other computers being used by us...a bad situation by any standards). I kno ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Aug 28 02:11:09 PDT 2007

305 [lbo-talk] Israel bans paper shipments to Gaza -- rank: 1000

Well....the Shin Bet reports solid intelligence of a joint cabal of Islamic Jihad, DFLP and Hamas with intentions to smuggle in a shipment of A4 paper to be used in the paper-cut torturing of Gilad Shalit. Something drastic had to be done to stop this from occurring. Doug Henwood wrote: > <http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-76FF7W?OpenDocument> > > > Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian > Affairs - Integrated Regional Information ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Aug 28 00:24:53 PDT 2007

306 [lbo-talk] Selling Israel by the square foot: "one of the most recent examples of the confluence of capitalism and Zionism" -- rank: 1000

Selling Israel by the square foot http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/896927.html By Daphna Berman <mailto:daphnab at haaretz.co.il> A U.S.-based company has begun selling tiny parcels of land in northern Israel over the Internet, to give American Jews a cheap way to get a "foothold in the Holy Land." Although they are just 1 square foot in size, they are marketed as being the "emotional and spiritual size" of a mountain. Since operations began in late June, "hundr ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun Aug 26 09:22:42 PDT 2007

307 [lbo-talk] The Case for Academic Boycott against Israel -- rank: 1000

* The Case for Academic Boycott against Israel* Written by Shir Hever, Holly Kilroy and Laura Vail for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) */The Case for Academic Boycott against Israel /*is an initial compilation of facts documenting the discriminatory practices implemented by the Israeli academic system, as well as this system s active and ongoing involvement in the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Through this document, the /Alternative Information Center /(AIC) aims to support ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Aug 23 06:51:36 PDT 2007

308 [lbo-talk] Israeli gov crackdown against leaks of cabinet meetings on defense issues -- rank: 1000

Since Barak has taken over as minister of defense, he has remained almost completely away from the media, plus in the past month or so there has been a significant effort to make sure that nobody outside the cabinet meetings knows what is going on regarding defense and strategic military decision making. Perhaps one could chalk this down to merely precautionary measures in the wake of Winograd, or perhaps it's reflective of an increased desire to keep some specific Israeli military planning out ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Aug 23 06:49:28 PDT 2007

309 [lbo-talk] Israeli Generals move from war prevention into war strategies: "Leaving the home front out of range" -- rank: 1000

Seems that the discourse is moving from how to prevent a war with Syria, to how to implement is with the best, most efficient outcome... Using the media to get us used to the idea of the inevitability of war with Syria?... "The challenge facing Israel in case of a war is how to confine it to a military dimension and prevent it from spreading into an uncompromising and total war in which the civilians of both countries become unnecessary victims. The Israeli strategy in a war against Syria m ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Aug 23 05:59:41 PDT 2007

310 [lbo-talk] Tel Aviv or bust: Housing Market -- rank: 1000

Big time bubble? ---------------------------- Tel Aviv or bust http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/895160.html By Arik Mirovsky "I don't see any alternative to buying an apartment in Tel Aviv," declares Dorit, a single mother with two children. She recently sold her previous Tel Aviv apartment and is looking for another with at least 4.5 rooms, north of the Yarkon River. She can pay up to $690,000. Yes, prices in the coastal city have risen terribly, she agrees, but that's where she lo ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Aug 21 03:43:08 PDT 2007

311 [lbo-talk] Vegas Casino King Makes Bid For Israeli Media Moguldom -- rank: 1000

"American billionaire Sheldon Adelson yesterday pledged $60 million for the Taglit-birthright israel project (http://www.birthrightisrael.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=HomePage), which sponsors trips to Israel for Jewish youths who have never visited the country. Accompanying Adelson were some 20 congressmen from the Republican Party, of which he is a staunch supporter. He has been organizing delegations of Republican congressmen and senators for the past 15 years. "They all come back Zionists ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Aug 16 08:18:29 PDT 2007

312 [lbo-talk] Israel, U.S. formally sign new defense agreement -- rank: 1000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/894255.html Israel, U.S. formally sign new defense agreement By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent Israel and the United States signed Thursday the Memorandum of Understanding on the new American defense package for Israel. Under the new aid agreement, the U.S. will transfer $30 billion to Israel over 10 years, compared with $24 billion over the past decade. Israel is slated to receive the first pay out in October 2008, amounting to $2.550 billion. That sum wi ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Aug 16 03:48:59 PDT 2007

313 [lbo-talk] Ultra-Orthodox Jews deliver a population boom to the West Bank -- rank: 1000

Ultra-Orthodox Jews deliver a population boom to the West Bank By Nadav Shragai <mailto:nshragai at haaretz.co.il>, Haaretz Correspondent http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=893357&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7 The settler population is growing twice as fast as the rest of the country every year, and the ultra-Orthodox community is responsible for approximately half its annual growth, according to Haaretz's analysis of Interior Ministry figures for 2006. In the las ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Aug 14 04:47:38 PDT 2007

314 [lbo-talk] Shameless: The Israeli Government and the Survivors of the Holocaust -- rank: 1000

Shameless: The Israeli Government and the Survivors of the Holocaust Written by Michael Warschawski I want the Germans to know where all the money they gave to the State of Israel has gone. These were the words of one of the survivors of the WWII Jewish genocide, who was demonstrating in front of the Israeli Knesset to demand an increase in the state s allocation to them as survivors of the genocide. Many of the survivors, who today are obviously very old, live in extreme poverty: the allocatio ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Aug 14 04:45:17 PDT 2007

315 [lbo-talk] Report: Israelis fighting guerillas in Colombia -- rank: 1000

Report: Israelis fighting guerillas in Colombia http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3435949,00.html Colombian paper quotes local defense minister as confirming ex Israeli officers helping government in battle against guerillas, drug lords, while guerrilla group FARC claims Israeli commandos also fighting them in jungles Beatrice Overlander Published: 08.10.07, 10:15 / Israel News Colombia's defense minister confirmed recently that ex Israeli military men were helping his government fight g ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sat Aug 11 00:23:06 PDT 2007