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556 [lbo-talk] Re: The Chomsky vs. Dershowitz debate: both sides were awful! -- rank: 1000

I finally listened/watched the debate. For the sake of saying...If it were up to me personally right now (which I know it isn't), and I was to get what I wanted (which I am old enough to know not to expect anytime soon), we would have a non-national (as opposed to binational) secular socialist democratic state in all of Palestine. And I WAS somewhat saddened by Chomsky's backing of the Geneva Accord. In the Geneva Accord, there is clause which states that there will be a "border between the ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 5 07:32:54 PST 2005

557 [lbo-talk] The Proud Terrorists of Ramle -- rank: 1000

A co-worker of mine pointed out this very revealing quote from the official Ramle Municipality website. The history is generally known, so it is no somoking gun in that sense, and during the War of '48 in Palestine/Israel there was no shortage of these types of acts against civilian targets from either side. But it seems quite stunning to me that an official Israeli government website would so unabashadly frame an explicit terror attack in heroic terms. The Israeli propaganda machine must h ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 09:56:25 PDT 2004

558 [lbo-talk] The Living, about the Dead -- rank: 1000

The Living, about the Dead /by B. Michael, The Israeli Daily Yedioth Achronot Translated from the Hebrew by Victoria Buch/ The whole nation is huddled up in the corner, like a little dog that urinated on the carpet, waiting meekly for the cruel strike that will come. Nobody has any doubt that it will come. Only W-H-E-R-E will it come - that is not yet known. And who are the walking dead that meanwhile pace among us, that is not yet known either. They were not notified in advance, or asked for pe ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 10:21:28 PST 2004

559 [lbo-talk] "Clash of Civilizations, or Capital Accumulation?" by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler -- From the latest News from Within: Vol. XX, No. 4, June-July 2004 -- rank: 1000

Hey all, Relating to the latest news about the rise in crude oil prices and Doug's latest LBO #108 article "Is Oil Expensive", I thought to send you an excerpt (and link to the whole article in .pdf) of an article by Israeli economists Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler from the June-July 2004 issue of the journal I edit, News from Within (English language journal of the joint Palestinian/Israeli organization, The Alternative Information Center). Best wishes, Bryan ------------------ ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 6 04:18:42 PDT 2004

560 [lbo-talk] Turkey protests Israeli oil fields purchases in N. Iraq -- rank: 1000

http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20031024091151263 Friday, October 24 2003 @ 09:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time Contributed by: Admin Views: 194 Ankara has reportedly delivered a protest to Israel over alleged purchases of oil fields from Kurds in northern Iraq. The Foreign Ministry is said to have yesterday summoned Israeli Ambassador to Ankara Pini Avivi to convey its concern over the matter and to call on Israel to bring such purchases to an end. --------------------------------------------- ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 22:20:27 PST 2003

561 [lbo-talk] Police divided on whether to reccomend indicting Sharon for role in Greek island affair -- rank: 1000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=35584 3 Police divided on Sharon's role in Greek island affair By Baruch Kra Senior police officers are split over whether to recommend indicting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the so-called Greek island affair, after a six-hour interrogation of the premier Thursday left some convinced of his innocence and others convinced of his guilt. According to police sources, Major General Moshe Mizrahi, who heads the Criminal Investiga ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 00:46:05 PST 2003

562 [lbo-talk] Poor families have tripled over past 13 years, says Bank of Israel report -- rank: 1000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/354844.html Poor families have tripled over past 13 years, says Bank of Israel report By Einav Ben Yehuda The number of Israeli families living under the poverty line tripled from 1988 to 2001, according to a Bank of Israel survey published yesterday. During the 13-year period examined by the survey, the number of families living below the poverty line increased from about 100,000 to 300,000, the central bank researchers found. The National Insurance Institute ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 08:06:21 PST 2003

563 [lbo-talk] From airlines to the factory floor, hiring starts to outweigh job losses. -- rank: 1000

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1027/p01s01-usec.htm Finally, a wave of new jobs approaching From airlines to the factory floor, hiring starts to outweigh job losses. By Ron Scherer | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK - At last, an economic recovery with jobs. A software engineer in San Diego finds a job only two months after being laid off. An aluminum company in Muscle Shoals, Ala., is recalling workers, some laid off as long ago as 1996. And a budding restaurant chain based ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 26 21:37:52 PST 2003

564 [lbo-talk] Antiquities body blames ministry for damage to ancient Byzantine monastery -- rank: 1000

You can be sure that if this was a significant Early Israelite, Hashmonean or Herodian site (or even a 'Jewish' site from Byzantine period), the building of the security wall in that area would have been either delayed or routed around the acheological site. Bryan ------------------------------------------- http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/352342.html Antiquities body blames ministry for damage to ancient monastery By Amiram Barkat in Ha'aretz The Antiquities Authority yesterday published a s ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 23 02:11:52 PDT 2003

565 [lbo-talk] censored: yehuda nuriel's satirical column for which he was sacked from ma'ariv -- rank: 1000

http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/webcast/70541.html by oznik-news 8:01am Wed Oct 22 '03 why did amnon dankner sack yehuda nuriel? Two weeks ago, following heated public discussion in israel in response to the refusenik air force pilots ("We refuse to take part in air force attacks on centers of civilian population," they wrote), columnist Yehuda Nuriel wrote a short piece titled "A Brave and Moving Response to the Refusenik Pilots." the item was published as part of his weekly ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 21 23:17:51 PDT 2003

566 [lbo-talk] Israeli Unemployment benefits cut 23 percent in Jan-Sept 2003, Only 28% of unemployed entitled to benefits -- rank: 1000

"Only 28 percent of Israel's 280,000 unemployed were entitled to benefits in the first half of 2003" http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=35147 0 Israeli Unemployment benefits cut 23 percent in Jan-Sept 2003 By Eynav Ben Yehuda Unemployment benefit payments plunged 23 percent in the first nine months of 2003, compared with the parallel period last year, according to National Insurance Institute figures released Sunday. Benefits for the unemployed in Ja ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 19 10:40:36 PDT 2003

567 [lbo-talk] British Council spreading market based public sector reform in Israel -- rank: 1000

http://www.britishcouncil.org.il/cgi-bin/wops.cgi?path=governance/reform/ind ex Largely driven by the former Conservative Government's free-market philosophy, public sector reform has led the British government to: * introduce principles of competition through privatisation, market testing of internal government services, and efficiency audits * contain costs * prefer customer-contractor relationships to needs-based services * focus on outcomes, outputs and results, not inputs and processes * be ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 19 04:12:46 PDT 2003

568 [lbo-talk] Peace Now to brief U.S. Senate on settlements -- rank: 1000

Last Update: 15/10/2003 06:23 Peace Now to brief U.S. Senate on settlements By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent The head of Peace Now's settlements watch, Dror Atkes, will give testimony on Wednesday before a U.S. Senate sub-committee on the Middle East about the political, security, economic and demographic effect of the settlements. He plans to show the committee members updated maps of the outposts in the territories and data about plans for expanding settlements, a Peace Now spokesman sa ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 14 23:06:21 PDT 2003

569 [lbo-talk] "Wanted" Palestinians save Jewish family from refugee camp 'lynch' -- rank: 1000

http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enZone=Security&enDisplay=view&enPag e=ArticlePage&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l2860 "Wanted" Palestinians save Jewish family from refugee camp lynch By Ellis Shuman October 14, 2003 Hannah, Sarah and Shlomo Dickman, after Palestinians helped rescue them from an angry mob in the Kalandia refugee camp. "We were scared for our lives," said Hannah Dickman, whose family accidentally drove into the Kalandia refugee c ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 14 06:36:38 PDT 2003

570 [lbo-talk] Hush, hush about Israel's bomb -- rank: 1000

http://www.ahram-eg.com/weekly/2003/666/re2.htm Hush, hush about Israel's bomb A recent attack on a Knesset member underscores the country's hostility towards calls for transparency in Israel's weapons of mass destruction programme, Jonathan Cook reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- At midday on Friday, 24 October, Issam Makhoul, an Arab member of the Israeli parliament, and his wife Suad got into their two cars outside their home in the centr ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 30 02:32:27 PST 2003