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

http://www.peacenow.org.il/data/SIP_STORAGE/files/9/2569.pdf Peace Now s Settlement Watch team has compiled precise information regarding the legal status of the land on which Israeli settlements have been constructed in the West Bank over the last four decades. The data, which is compiled and made public here for the first time, has enormous significance. It indicates the direct violation of Israeli law carried out by the State itself, driven by the architects and leaders of the settlement move ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Nov 21 12:51:50 PST 2006

362 [lbo-talk] Free AIC Member Ahmad Abu Hannya from Administrative Detention! -- rank: 1000

More bad news about my co-worker, Ahmad Abu Hannya... We thought that there was a good chance he would be released, but now they extended his incarceration at least another ten days, so that they can investigate/interrogate him (all this time he has been in detention, they haven't even investigated the case against him). After the ten days, there are three options: Let him go free, try him in open court, or keep him in admin detention another six months. If the state's past actions are any indic ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Nov 21 03:19:45 PST 2006

363 [lbo-talk] Settler Violence Report for October 2006 -- rank: 1000

Settler Violence Report for October 2006 By Ahmad Jaradat, Alternative Information Center (AIC) http://alternativenews.dyndns.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=614&Itemid=1 Hebron Region * On 3 October, settlers from the Beit Hadassa settlement outpost in downtown Hebron threw stones at people on the main street, below the outpost. Owners of shops on the street stated that the settlers threw the stones and empty bottles at people in the streets, in full sight of Israeli s ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Nov 14 11:34:23 PST 2006

364 [lbo-talk] Devastation in Gaza Who is Paying the Bill? -- rank: 1000

Written by Shir Hever, Alternative Information Center (AIC) Shir Hever writes the Economy of the Occupation bulletin for the AIC and is completing his Master's at the Cohen Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. Sunday, 12 November 2006 http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=610&Itemid=1 Sorrow and loss penetrate the lives of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, as their deaths continue to accumulate at an a ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun Nov 12 02:43:02 PST 2006

365 [lbo-talk] Jewish supporters of Rabbi Meir Kahane praise Gaza killings as 'holy' -- rank: 1000

Kahane supporters praise Gaza killings as 'holy' http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3326400,00.html Supporters of assassinated rabbi Meir Kahane hold ceremony to commemorate killed rabbi, say 'holy canon' fired shells at family in Beit Hanoun in which 18 Palestinians died on Wednesday Efrat Weiss Published: 11.09.06, 23:00 Kahane supporters take credit for compromise on gay pride parade: Some 200 right-wing activists gathered in Jerusalem on Thursday evening for a commemoration of rabbi M ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Fri Nov 10 06:05:39 PST 2006

366 [lbo-talk] AIC Condemns Israeli Massacre in Gaza, Calls on International Community to Act Immediately -- rank: 1000

9 November 2006 AIC Condemns Israeli Massacre in Gaza, Calls on International Community to Act Immediately Written by The Alternative Information Center (AIC) http://alternativenews.dyndns.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=608&Itemid=1 Israel s early morning massacre of 19 Palestinian civilians on 8 November, including eight children and four women, is the latest outrage in the current all-out and continuing war against the Palestinian people in both the Gaza Strip and th ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Nov 9 01:35:07 PST 2006

367 [lbo-talk] Help Release AIC Member Ahmad Abu Hannya from Administrative Detention -- rank: 1000

Help Release AIC Member Ahmad Abu Hannya from Administrative Detention Written by Alternative Information Center (AIC) http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=605&Itemid=1 The Alternative Information Center (AIC) urges you to appeal to the Israeli authorities for the immediate and unconditional release from administrative detention of our colleague and friend Ahmad Abu Hannya. Ahmad, the coordinator of the AIC youth group, was detained at a checkpoint on ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Nov 7 23:18:18 PST 2006

368 [lbo-talk] Seymour Hersh: There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: > Wow, Sy Hersh rushes to World Burns to Death's > defense. But, like Doug asked, "Why not blame civilian > bosses instead"? > > Over *600,000* dead in Iraq because of the US, right? > First, it would be factually incorrect to directly attribute the majority of violent deaths in Iraq since the invasion directly to US or coalition forces. The Lancet article with the 654,965 deaths estimate, states that "The proportion of deaths ascribed to coalition forc ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 2 08:17:37 PST 2006

369 [lbo-talk] Seymour Hersh: There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Support the Troops!!! Remember, they're doing it for your sake. Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------- There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh slams Bush at McGill address By Martin Lukacs The McGill Daily http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=5450 Speaking to launch McGill s interdisciplinary media studies program last Wednesday, Hersh said he had seen video footage ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Nov 2 06:35:49 PST 2006

370 [lbo-talk] Palestinian Farmers under Severe Hardship during the Olive Harvest: a Call for Solidarity -- rank: 1000

http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=600&Itemid=88 Palestinian Farmers under Severe Hardship during the Olive Harvest: a Call for Solidarity Written by Ahmad Jaradat, Alternative Information Center (AIC) During the first day that Palestinian farmers headed to their orchards to pick olives, several were injured when they were attacked by a number of settlers from the Nablus area, especially near the Gilad settlement post. If not for the intervention of ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 2 05:59:05 PST 2006

371 [lbo-talk] Re: Biology and Society -- rank: 1000

Anyone read any Scott Atran...his work on folk-biology and the evolution of religion? The first I had read of him was while doing work for my MA thesis. I found his article "The Surrogate Colonization of Palestine, 1917-1939" very interesting and conceptually helpful. The Surrogate Colonization of Palestine, 1917-1939 American Ethnologist > Vol. 16, No. 4 (Nov., 1989), pp. 719-744 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28198911%2916%3A4%3C719%3ATSCOP1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H I recommend ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue May 30 13:15:17 PDT 2006

372 [lbo-talk] NATFHE Leads the Way in Moral Responsibility; British Academics Vote for Boycotting Israeli Apartheid -- rank: 1000

Sorry, for some reason, words fell out of the text version. Strange... Bryan Atinsky wrote: > http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=420&Itemid=1 > > NATFHE Leads the Way in Moral Responsibility; > British Academics Vote for Boycotting Israeli Apartheid

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Mon May 29 11:50:02 PDT 2006

373 [lbo-talk] NATFHE Leads the Way in Moral Responsibility; British Academics Vote for Boycotting Israeli Apartheid -- rank: 1000

http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=420&Itemid=1 NATFHE Leads the Way in Moral Responsibility; British Academics Vote for Boycotting Israeli Apartheid 29 May 2006 Today, British academics proved once again that they are up to the challenge of meeting injustice with the powerful message of civil resistance that boycott represents. The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) voted for an academic boycott of in response ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Mon May 29 11:00:18 PDT 2006

374 [lbo-talk] Relativity in Islam -- rank: 1000

I was looking at a website on physics, and saw an interesting google advert....so I clicked... "Relativity in Islam Quran defined: Speed of Light, Time Dilation, Black Holes, Wormholes." http://www.speed-light.info/challenge.html?gclid=CPLz8ridj4UCFQpREgodLjeVJQ Check this out: "299,792.458 km/s is the speed of light in vacuum. But 1400 years ago it was stated in the Koran (Quran, the book of Islam) that angels travel in one day the same distance that the moon travels in 1000 lu ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue May 23 13:55:04 PDT 2006

375 [lbo-talk] Anti-Abortion in Israel as part of the Demographic War -- rank: 1000

Trying to keep Israel Jewish http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3253226,00.html Efrat, an anti-abortion organization that pays women to carry pregnancies through to term, says it is in forefront against so-called 'demographic threat' Reuters In the 58 years since its founding, few issues have stalked the state of Israel like demographics - the fear that Arabs may some day outnumber Jews. Responding to an issue that Israelis often refer to as "the demographic threat", a non-profi ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun May 21 06:23:57 PDT 2006