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451 [lbo-talk] More info on Communists being edged out of the Hadash Political Party in Israel -- rank: 1000

http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=361&Itemid=1&lang=ISO-8859-1 Hadash Council Impeached MK Issam Mahul from the Second Place On Saturday, MK Issam Mahul was removed from the second place of the Hadash list to the Knesset. Mahul lost to Dr. Hanna Swaid, former Head of the Ilbun Municipality. Swaid received 238 votes (54%), while Mahul received only 197 votes. Immediately after the results were announced, turmoil erupted and the voting process ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Jan 18 13:47:59 PST 2006

452 [lbo-talk] One little telephone call...(when the US puts on pressure, Israel listens) -- rank: 1000

This article from Ha'aretz shows the potential power that the US government has in influencing Israeli policies and actions. It therefore also points to the importance of a strong US grassroots anti-Occupation activist base that will put pressure on its own government and the government of Israel, to end the Occupation and abide by international law. One main tool of this would be a campaign calling for divestment, boycott and sanction, on the basis of international law and the advisory opinion ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun Jan 15 02:27:34 PST 2006

453 [lbo-talk] Hadash Party's slide from an Israeli Communist Party to a Palestinian nationalist party -- rank: 1000

Some bad news from what used to be (and has been slowly changing in the last years) a joint Palestinian/Israeli socialist political party... I will try to find out more about what is going on in the next days... ------- Commotion in Hadash council session http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3200184,00.html MK Isaam Makhoul, secretary-general of Communist Party, loses primary elections for second spot on Arab party's Knesset list; following results, communist members announce they will not ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 14 10:56:47 PST 2006

454 [lbo-talk] Taking it off with God's help -- rank: 1000

Taking it off with God's help http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3199231,00.html (VIDEO) Now playing at the Tel Aviv Cinemateque Israel's first erotic ultra-Orthodox film! But as someone who likes her porn with some sort of a logical plot, Smadar Shiloni didn't really enjoy herself. That's what happens when you mix the holy with the profane Smadar Shiloni (VIDEO) I naively thought to myself that an erotic ultra-Orthodox (haredi) movie would portray the enigmatic and forbidden sexualit ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jan 12 03:19:16 PST 2006

455 [lbo-talk] communist witches were not spectral -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > that doesn't really matter for talking or singing about Dixie today. What if you're just whistlin' Dixie though?

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Date:	Thu Jan 12 01:17:00 PST 2006

456 [lbo-talk] Israeli Politics in a Post-Sharon Era -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > Bryan Atinsky wrote: > >> Indeed Sharon had a plan. But it would be ludicrous to call it a >> "peace plan." > > > How does this unified vision of Sharon's compare with Israeli public > opinion? > > Doug Today, three separate polls came out with an estimate of 44 seats for Kadima under Olmert, with Peres in the second position in the list. Kadima with 16 seats and Likud 13. Sharon's ailment has been a boon for Kadima. The other p ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 11 08:19:20 PST 2006

457 [lbo-talk] Israeli Politics in a Post-Sharon Era -- rank: 1000

*Israeli Politics in a Post-Sharon Era * Written by: Michael Warschawski (co-founder of the Alternative Information Center) Date: Monday, 09 January 2006 ** http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=354&Itemid=1&lang=ISO-8859-1 Reading the local and international media, one gets the feeling that the brain-hemorrhage which pushed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon out of politics will have almost the same effect as those two bullets which ten years ago ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Jan 10 22:50:52 PST 2006

458 [lbo-talk] Neurological expert: Sharon's chances of surviving are slim -- rank: 1000

Neurological expert: Sharon's chances of surviving are slim By Tamara Traubman and Ran Reznick, Haaretz Correspondents The chances of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon surviving the massive stroke and cerebral hemorrhage he suffered Wednesday are very slim, a top neurosurgeon and expert in the field said Thursday, adding that this had been the case from the moment that the hemorrhaging began. The neurosurgeon's observations were based on his own experience, and not on the details of the prime minister ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jan 5 12:17:19 PST 2006

459 [lbo-talk] Israel Plans De Facto Annexation of Palestinian Land -- rank: 1000

Israel Plans De Facto Annexation of Palestinian Land http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=352&Itemid=1&lang=ISO-8859-1 SOUTH HEBRON HILLS, PALESTINE: In spite of the Israeli Supreme Court decision ordering the army to move back the separation in the Hebron Hills region approximately to the green line, Israel continues to find new ways to expropriate Palestinian land. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) recently issued a series of military orders ma ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Jan 4 03:58:27 PST 2006

460 [lbo-talk] Liza & Doug have a kid (Advice...don't bounce!!!!) -- rank: 1000

> > On Jan 1, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > Born in New York City, January 1, 2006, 7:36 AM: Ivan Henwood (middle > name TK), 8 lbs 2 oz. All parties are sleepy, but otherwise doing > quite well. > > Doug Congrats Liza and Doug, Mazal Tov and Mabruk!!!! Some advice from the not-so-wise, who had to learn the hard way. No matter how bad you feel for your crying Ivan, no matter how little he weighs at the moment, no matter how much you want to go to sleep and tak ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 2 12:01:16 PST 2006

461 [lbo-talk] Israeli military officer cancels UK trip for fear of arrest -- rank: 1000

More of this is what is needed. Let the Israeli officers and politicians fear arrest everywhere they go. Bryan ---------- IDF officer cancels UK trip for fear of arrest http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3221339,00.html Judge Advocate-General Brigadier-General Avichai Mendelblit recommends Brigadier-General Aviv Kochavi cancel studies leave for fear he will be arrested for alleged war crimes Hanan Greenberg IDF Gaza division commander, Brigadier-General Aviv Kochavi, has cancelled a leave ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun Feb 26 12:55:26 PST 2006

462 [lbo-talk] Green Jews Campaign Against Party's Israel Divestment Resolution -- rank: 1000

http://www.uja.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=177176 Green Jews Campaign Against Party's Israel Divestment Resolution By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (JTA) -- Audrey Clement biked across night-darkened bridges and through driving winter rain to make her point: Her party -- the Green Party -- made a fundamental mistake in a resolution calling for divestment from Israel. She waited patiently for the DC-Statehood-Green Party to wade through its monthly agenda items of procedural items, repor ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun Feb 26 08:27:26 PST 2006

463 [lbo-talk] Chairman of the Shas Israeli Political Party: Gays are sick people -- rank: 1000

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3219924,00.html Shas (Mizrahi religious political party) chairman: Gays are sick people In interview to Knesset Channel, Eli Yishai sends homosexuals speedy recovery wishes; says 'if there was a pill to cure them, they would all take it' Attila Somfalvi (VIDEO) Shas Chairman Eli Yishai apparently refuses to acknowledge the fact that homosexuality is not perceived as an incurable disease in modern Israel. In an interview aired on the Knesset Channel Wedne ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Feb 23 02:11:18 PST 2006

464 [lbo-talk] You Get What You Vote For. What Does Hamas Get Us? -- rank: 1000

This is an interesting take on the present atmosphere for Palestinians in Gaza. Bryan -------- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/04/AR2006020400226.html?sub=AR You Get What You Vote For. What Does Hamas Get Us? By Abdallah Alsalmi Sunday, February 5, 2006; B02 Abdallah Alsalmi is a public relations officer with the Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution, a nongovernmental organization in Gaza City. GAZA CITY Here in Gaza, we are holding our breath, wa ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Feb 21 08:11:32 PST 2006

465 [lbo-talk] Dov Weisglass on the Palestinians: "We have to make them much thinner, but not enough to die'" -- rank: 1000

I am not going to argue with you on the point that the Israeli government would continue to work towards its long term policies regardless of who won the elections, and incorporate the election results (any way they would have come out) into its justification. If Hamas had 'merely' won the second largest number of seats, the Israeli government could state that Fatah was weak and propped up by Hamas...and "no partner"; or even if (unlikely to have occurred) Fatah had won a landslide, t ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 17 15:03:33 PST 2006