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346 [lbo-talk] The God Delusion -- rank: 1000

Dawkins on the Colbert Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA9EiSJaXww

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Fri Oct 20 16:50:52 PDT 2006

347 [lbo-talk] Hebrew University Demands Police Character Reference from Visitors Who are Palestinian Citizens of Israel as Condition for Entrance to its Campuses -- rank: 1000

19 October 2006 Hebrew University Demands Police Character Reference from Visitors Who are Palestinian Citizens of Israel as Condition for Entrance to its Campuses By Alternative Information Center (AIC) http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=590&Itemid=1 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem demands that Palestinian citizens of Israel who wish to visit its campuses present a character reference from the police as a condition for entrance. An email to this ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Oct 19 15:17:30 PDT 2006

348 [lbo-talk] Settler Violence Report for September 2006 -- rank: 1000

Settler Violence Report for September 2006 Written by Ahmad Jaradat, Alternative Information Center (AIC) Thursday, 19 October 2006 http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=589&Itemid=1 Hebron Region * On 2 September, settlers from the Ramot Yashai outpost in Tel Rumeida renewed their attacks against the home of the Abu Aishai family, situated near the outpost. The settlers threw stones at the family s home, in several separate instances during both the da ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Oct 19 06:18:19 PDT 2006

349 [lbo-talk] the Israeli army - full of slackers? -- rank: 1000

> Colin Brace wrote: >> On 10/19/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >>> Tariq said that an under-reported aspect of Israel's unhappy >>> experience in Lebanon was that, in contrast with a stoked Hezbollah, >>> the IDF is now full of members of the global slacker class who just >>> didn't want to be there. Any thoughts on this? >> Well, I don't know about defining them as the slacker class (many are overworked business ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Oct 19 02:59:40 PDT 2006

350 [lbo-talk] Hezbollah vs IDF -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > >> So why is Nasrallah depressed? >> http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=977 >> Nasrallah's Malaise >> By Ehud Yaari >> Jerusalem Report, October 2, 2006 > > Is that a reliable source? > > Doug The Jerusalem Report is a liberal Zionist magazine (It was already quite centrist and I have noticed its move towards the center over time). If I remember ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sat Oct 14 10:15:48 PDT 2006

351 [lbo-talk] The Occupation through the Eyes of Israeli,Economists -- rank: 1000

Economy of the Occupation 9: The Occupation through the Eyes of Israeli Economists By: Shir Hever To read the entire bulletin, click here: http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=584&Itemid=70 Discussion of the occupation, the settlements, prospects of peace between Israel and the Palestinians and so on occupy a central position in the political and academic discourses in Israel (notably in departments of law, sociology and humanities). However, the econo ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Fri Oct 13 03:49:39 PDT 2006

352 [lbo-talk] Poll: Most Israelis believe in God -- rank: 1000

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3311779,00.html Most Israelis feel close to religion, according to a Ynet poll dealing with Judaism and existence conducted last week; six out of ten believe it was God who created the world in which we live today, poll says According to the results of last week's poll by Ynet and the Smith Institute, seven out of ten Israelis believe in the existence of God, and six out of ten believe it was God who created the world in which we live today. A study cond ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Fri Oct 6 10:35:32 PDT 2006

353 [lbo-talk] Not an internal Palestinian matter by Amira Hass -- rank: 1000

Not an internal Palestinian matter By Amira Hass http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/770053.html The experiment was a success: The Palestinians are killing each other. They are behaving as expected at the end of the extended experiment called "what happens when you imprison 1.3 million human beings in an enclosed space like battery hens." These are the steps in the experiment: Imprison (since 1991); remove the prisoners' usual means of livelihood; seal off all outlets to the outside wo ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Oct 4 07:46:29 PDT 2006

354 [lbo-talk] science, objectivity, truth, taste and tolerance -- rank: 1000

Did anyone read Meera Nanda's article, "Against Social De(con)struction of Science: Cautionary Tales from the Third World"? It was in the Monthly Review from 1997, I read it in the book I have from Monthly Review Press "In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda". I find now a copy of it here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n10_v48/ai_19344899 Here is the first paragraph: Against social destruction of science: cautionary tales from the third worl ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Oct 4 07:20:02 PDT 2006

355 [lbo-talk] The Ultimate Mission to Israel -- rank: 1000

Check out this scary 'Hasbarah' tour of Israel. http://www.israellawcenter.org/article.php?id=120 Experience a dynamic and intensive eight day exploration of Israel's struggle for survival and security in the Middle East today. * Briefings by Mossad officials and Shin Bet commanders. * Briefing by officers in the IDF Intelligence and Operations branches. * Inside tour of the IAF unit who carries out targeted killings. * Live exhibition of penetration raids in Arab territory. * Observe a trial of ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Oct 3 02:30:05 PDT 2006

356 [lbo-talk] AIC Member Ahmad Abu Hannya Placed in Administrative Detention for an Additional Six Months -- rank: 1000

Well, knowing the Israeli military court system, this was the presumed outcome, but it is nonetheless terribly frustrating and saddening. Please do write letters and/or forward this to others... Bryan ----------------------------- AIC Member Ahmad Abu Hannya Placed in Administrative Detention for an Additional Six Months http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=634&Itemid=1 An Israeli military court approved the extension of Ahmad Abu Hannya s administ ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Nov 30 07:46:36 PST 2006

357 [lbo-talk] Mayor of the Jewish and Arab Israeli city of Ramle makes racist statements, Ynet censors article -- rank: 1000

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As a lesson to see that when you read the English language reports about what happens in Israel, you are only getting part of the picture, here is an example of selective reporting from today's news. Though this is from the Israeli media, I think that this can be somewhat extrapolated to the international media because many of the international reporters cannot speak the regional languages and get their ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 30 06:06:26 PST 2006

358 [lbo-talk] Russian-born businessman: I met poisoned ex-spy Litvinenko in Israel -- rank: 1000

Chris, give us your wisdom on the Russian situation...what's to make of all this?... Bryan ------------------ Russian-born businessman: I met poisoned ex-spy Litvinenko in Israel By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent, and Agencies http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/792436.html Russian-born businessman Leonid Nevzlin, former CEO of the Yukos oil company and current chairman of the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv, said Friday that he had met in Israel with former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, wh ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Fri Nov 24 14:53:53 PST 2006

359 [lbo-talk] another view of Seinfeld -- rank: 1000

This reminds me of the work of the Harvard social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji. You can watch a recent lecture by her from the "Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival" (Mon, Nov. 6, Session 7) (That day of sessions also contains interesting arguments between Scott Atran, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins)... http://beyondbelief2006.org/Watch/ She set up an interesting research program in which you can take tests on the internet. It is called Project Implicit: https://implic ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Nov 23 23:23:21 PST 2006

360 [lbo-talk] Israeli Settlement Building on Private Palestinian Property -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > >> http://www.peacenow.org.il/data/SIP_STORAGE/files/9/2569.pdf > > I was surprised to see this on the front page of the NYT this morning. Front page? That is surprising... The report is kind of strange in one way though, actually...I guess it makes it worse that a significant portion of the land on which the settlements are built was/is privately owned Palestinian land...but let's say it wasn't ...t ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Nov 21 13:40:14 PST 2006