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481 [lbo-talk] Nasrallah interview faked? -- rank: 1000

Gilbert Achcar says that he talked to a source in Beirut who is in close touch with Hezbollah, and it was confirmed that the interview is a forgery. Bryan Michael Pugliese wrote: > http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2006/08/this-interview-with-nasrallah-that-is.html > > http://www.counterpunch.org/nasrallah08172006.html > http://bellaciao.org/fr/article.php3?id_article=32554 > > One of the comments, > Also, As'ad, I would even from a standpoint of fairly severe ignorance > c ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 14:59:52 PDT 2006

482 [lbo-talk] "So long and thanks for all...the...um...umm...I forget" -- rank: 1000

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7FF1A9D2-FEEB-4340-A0DA-DE92AF6C49EC.htm Scientist: Dolphins are stupid Thursday 17 August 2006, 16:29 Makka Time, 13:29 GMT Dolphins are not as clever as previously thought Dolphins may have big brains, but a South African-based scientist says laboratory rats and even goldfish can outwit them. Paul Manger of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand says the super-sized brains of dolphins are a function of being warm-blooded in a cold water environmen ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 14:45:36 PDT 2006

483 [lbo-talk] Fighting Two Enemies at the Same Time? (was On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist) -- rank: 1000

But, including the Fatah vote in the numbers, the majority did vote for secular parties. Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Take a look at the Palestinian elections this January. The > Palestinian people could have voted for secular leftists (I'm speaking > of "leftists" in a broad sense), but _most of them didn't_: > > Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) > 42,101 votes 4.25% of the vote 3 (3/0) seats > > The Alternative (Democratic ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 14:40:02 PDT 2006

484 [lbo-talk] On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > In principle, we have to accept other peoples' choices even when those > aren't choices we make for ourselves, unless they make war on us or > exterminate an ethnic group or do both, a la fascists: e.g., the > Palestinian people voted for Hamas this January, so others -- > including all Israelis -- should have accepted that choice, rather > than organizing economic boycotts of it, kidnapping elected Hamas > leaders, destroying Gaza again, and s ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 12:38:59 PDT 2006

485 [lbo-talk] Lebanon: The 33-Day War and UNSC Resolution 1701 -- rank: 1000

http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=515&Itemid=1 Lebanon: The 33-Day War and UNSC Resolution 1701 Gilbert Achcar The resolution adopted by the UN Security Council on August 11, 2006 fully satisfies neither Israel nor Washington nor Hezbollah. This does not mean that it is fair and balanced : it only means that it is a temporary expression of a military stalemate. Hezbollah could not inflict a major military defeat on Israel, a possibility that was al ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 16 13:38:28 PDT 2006

486 [lbo-talk] Israel s War of Arithmetic -- rank: 1000

This is a long piece, so I only copy the first section below: Israel s War of Arithmetic Written by Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook is a British journalist living in Nazareth, Israel. This is an edited extract from Chapter 3 of his new book Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State, published by Pluto Press. This article was originally published in News from Within, Vol. XXII, No. 6, July 2006. http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51 ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 14:57:31 PDT 2006

487 [lbo-talk] Israeli poll on support for gov. (was: Author David Grossman's son killed) -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >> On Sunday 13 August 2006 20:16, Doug Henwood wrote: >>> So is the fact that the invasion of Lebanon hasn't been a cakewalk >>> going to benefit the Israeli right? http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000122748&fid=942 Globes poll shows drastic fall in support for gov't Only 6% of those polled think that the agreement achieves most of Israel s goals. Globes correspondent 14 Aug 06 17:12 The first political outcome of the 33 ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 14 13:04:21 PDT 2006

488 [lbo-talk] Author David Grossman's son killed -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: > lIttle matter today that many - if not most - early zionists had > secular and socialist tendencies, zionism has - by and large - been > recruited to cause of religious fundamentalism, acquiring expansionist > and anti-arab character... mh Zionism in Israel today is still largely a secular nationalist movement. Religious Zionism has grown, but it still remains the minority within the power structure of Zionism.

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Date:	Sun Aug 13 13:35:56 PDT 2006

489 [lbo-talk] Author David Grossman's son killed -- rank: 1000

This is a tragedy. Grossman and many others of the Zionist Left, who could have had influence over the public opinion in halting this war from the beginning, instead came out for the war and gave a huge PR boost to the military/government. 'What unity there is among the Israelis, even the Left support the generals in this war of defense!' Then to come out against the war at the end--too little too late. Maybe if Grossman would have stood with us against the war from the beginning, it wouldn't ha ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 13 12:36:32 PDT 2006

490 [lbo-talk] Liberate Doug from Old Fogeyism! - was/ videogames -- rank: 1000

Why isn't that also the case in heavy book readers? It is a solitary sport in which hours upon hours are spent in blocking out the world around you. Two people sitting next to each other reading may as well be in different worlds. I happen to be both (a rabid book reader and player of video games), so I must be the most stupefied of solipsists around this universe of me. Doug Henwood wrote: > Leaving aside the content of video games, don't they promote a stupefied > solipsism among heavy p ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 13 03:39:23 PDT 2006

491 [lbo-talk] Total resolve, not pacifying terrorists -- rank: 1000

This bit of evangelical brilliance needs no introduction. Hallelujah!!!!: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3290018,00.html Total resolve, not pacifying terrorists God Almighty gave Israel to the Jewish people through his covenant with Abraham. If Israel fails to adhere to God s word, it will become another America, bogged in another Vietnam Earl Cox All international attempts to solve the problem between Israel and radical Islam by diplomatic means have proven futile. And it remains cer ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 12 10:39:39 PDT 2006

492 [lbo-talk] Zionist Left finally begins to move against war in Lebanon -- rank: 1000

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3289153,00.html Meretz, Peace Now to join anti-war protest Leftist Zionist parties to hold anti-war protest outside Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv on Thursday in light of government's decision to expand operation Attila Somfalvi Protest expands: A month since the start of the war in Lebanon, Meretz and Peace Now are joining a public protest against the military operation. The two groups have so far refused to voice opposition to the war and their leader ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 10 03:13:34 PDT 2006

493 [lbo-talk] Israel Rejected Agreement with Lebanon Two Years Ago Similar to One Currently Being Formulated -- rank: 1000

We translated this interesting little piece from Globes today. Israel Rejected Agreement with Lebanon Two Years Ago Similar to One Currently Being Formulated Written by Amnon Barzilai in Globes Wednesday, 09 August 2006 http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=501&Itemid=88 A senior official, who until recently held a high-level position in Israel's security system, disclosed today that the agreement currently being hammered out for a cessation of host ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 9 12:36:00 PDT 2006

494 [lbo-talk] Settlers Attack: From Breadwinner to Body Ba -- rank: 1000

Settlers Attack: From Breadwinner to Body Bag http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=494&Itemid=1 Written by Ahmad Jaradat Ahmad Jaradat is coordinator of the settlements violence project for the AIC. Tuesday, 08 August 2006 Each morning, Hussein Ali Mardawi would leave his home, and the ten members of his immediately family would wait for him to bring back food for the next day s meals. As usual, on Sunday morning, 6 August, he left his family to spend ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 8 10:36:11 PDT 2006

495 [lbo-talk] Materialist Militarism -- rank: 1000

This is a quite long piece, so I only copy the first section below: Materialist Militarism http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=493&Itemid=1 Written by Yagil Levy Yagil Levy teaches political science at the Open University and is a visiting lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His books include Trial and Error, Israel s Route from War to De-Escalation (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997) and A Different Army for Israel: Materia ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 8 02:55:01 PDT 2006