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571 [lbo-talk] Israeli Universities return to aptitude exams to keep Arabs out -- rank: 1000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=36557 2 Israeli Universities return to aptitude exams to keep Arabs out By Relly Sa'ar There's no politically correct spin to put on it, and the facts speak for themselves: As soon as Israel's top university administrators noticed that the big winners from admissions policy changes were not Jewish youngsters from low-income towns, but rather Arabs, they reverted back to the old admissions system. This year, the universities i ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 27 14:37:02 PST 2003

572 [lbo-talk] Israeli and foreign companies scramble for stake in Israeli version of the 'Wisconsin Plan' (welfare-reform) -- rank: 1000

Sadly, the only thing the Israelis know about Wisconsin (where I grew up) is that it is the name of Israel's welfare reform plan. What about the Apostle Islands, Victor Berger, Frank Zeidler, the Violent Femmes, Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac, Frank Lloyd Wright, Les Paul, Robert La Follette, William Defoe, Harley Davidson, Green Bay Packers (only publically owned NFL team), etc?....god, I would even be happy if the Israelis could mention Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, Miller Beer or Golda Meir. A ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 26 23:41:54 PST 2003

573 [lbo-talk] T.I.N.A....well except when it comes to promoting industry (Thatcher, "A designing woman, in the best sense" from Ha'aretz) -- rank: 1000

British promoting Thatcher's 'wisdom' to Israeli industry... http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/364642.html A designing woman, in the best sense The Iron Lady showed what government support can do for industry- an idea Israel needs, says an expert visitor By Efrat Shalom Michael Peters, managing director of The Identica Partnership, British consultants, recalls the day he met Margaret Thatcher. In a moment she transformed from a threatening woman to a wise politician who recognized the importan ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 26 00:06:59 PST 2003

574 [lbo-talk] Israeli Treasury proposes legislation to ban right to strike -- rank: 1000

The government has been upping the ante lately against the unions and their right to strike. The labour dispute in the public sector was sparked off by the government's 2004 budget plan. The 2004 budget calls for the dismissal of some 2000 additional state workers, plus cuts in pension benefits, etc. A couple of weeks ago, a national strike was halted at the last minute (The court order was issued an hour before the strike was to begin). Since then the Histadrut and Netanyahu have been 'in negot ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 24 23:59:24 PST 2003

575 [lbo-talk] The Marxists and the Lobby, by Israel Shamir -- rank: 1000

---- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pugliese" <debsian at pacbell.net> > From Israel Shamir: > Marxists are against RACIST antisemitism, but thankfully this plague is >eradicated. Racist antisemitism should not be confused - not only with >anti-Zionism, as Weinstein correctly notes, but with non-racist rejection >of >'the Jews' elsewhere, as well. The Jewish Question of Marx and of Leon >provides an example of such non-racist rejection. >Every Marxi ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 21 11:36:01 PST 2003

576 [lbo-talk] Israelis leave... (Russian voting habits) -- rank: 1000

----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com> > Bryan, you write: > > (Russians also tend to be quite right-wing, > > Any ideas as to why? ummm....byezopacnost (security)? I can't answer this with any great assurance...but... Russian voters tend to concentrate around the small number of Russian political leaders (Natan Sharansky and Avigdor Leiberman) who mostly have right-wing agendas (Roman Bronfman is the exception, who moved into M ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 21 06:40:06 PST 2003

577 [lbo-talk] Israelis leave: forced out by a battered economy and years of violence -- rank: 1000

While many on the anti-Zionist left and in the Palestinian community may see this increase in Israeli emigration as a positive development -- as if this will finally lead to all Israelis just "going back to where they came from" -- I find it a somewhat worrisome trend, probably lowering the chance of any positive resolution to this conflict in the future. While Dwayne's Israeli 'friend', who now lives in the States may be a rabidly right-wing nationalist(and I do know some right wing I ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 21 04:10:14 PST 2003

578 [lbo-talk] Israelis leave: forced out by a battered economy and years of violence -- rank: 1000

Don't you mean Sharon? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com> > When Putin was in Russia last, he addressed a group of Jewish leaders and > exhorted them to make aliyah. The reaction he got was "Are you out of your > friggin' mind?" >

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Date:	Fri Nov 21 01:24:22 PST 2003

579 [lbo-talk] High Court nixes Israel Broadcasting Authority ban on Geneva Accord...and about the Geneva Initiative mass mailing -- rank: 1000

For the second time in little over a week, the Supreme Court acted in defense of free-speech. Last week they reversed the decision to ban the movie "Jenin, Jenin" and now they overturned the decision by IBA to disallow advertisements promoting the Geneva Accords. On a similar note, yesterday our family (and a large portion of the Israeli and Palestinian populations) recieved in the mail a 47 page pamphlet pushing the Geneva Accords (part of their wider initiative to "go to the pe ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 19 10:41:24 PST 2003

580 [lbo-talk] Dynamics and patterns of the shrinking of Arab lands in Palestine -- rank: 1000

This article is definitely worth having a look at: http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/webcast/72731.html Political Geography Volume 22, Issue 2 , February 2003, Pages 179-209 Dynamics and patterns of the shrinking of Arab lands in Palestine Ghazi-Walid Falah This paper seeks to sketch a number of geographical patterns pertaining to the ongoing process of confiscation of Palestinian-Arab land in Israel and the 1967 occupied territories. It points out a geographical pattern and process of "encla ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 19 01:17:27 PST 2003

581 [lbo-talk] High Court nixes Israel Broadcasting Authority ban on Geneva Accord, People's Voice -- rank: 1000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=36256 8 High Court nixes Israel Broadcasting Authority ban on Geneva Accord, People's Voice By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent The High Court of Justice on Wednesday morning overturned a decision by the Israel Broadcasting Authority and the Second Broadcasting Authority to ban commercials promoting unofficial peace plans. A three-justice panel headed by Supreme Court President Aharon Barak heard the petitions filed by the b ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 19 01:15:05 PST 2003

582 [lbo-talk] Re: What's at stake? -- rank: 1000

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Bartlett" <billbartlett at dodo.com.au> > PS: I know you were only talking about American casualties, but that > seems a rather narrow measure of the relative cruelties of the > Democrats and Republicans. If the Republicans are equally indifferent > to the deaths of Americans as they are to the deaths of others, then > I fail to see how that makes them any worse than the Democrats. No, my emphasis on American casualties was ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 18 11:45:56 PST 2003

583 [lbo-talk] Report: U.S. officials slam Sharon for ignoring administration -- rank: 1000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/361668.html Report: U.S. officials slam Sharon for ignoring administration By Aluf Benn and Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondents and Haaretz Service Army Radio on Monday morning quoted senior U.S. officials as saying that relations between the U.S. and Israel were approaching a crisis due to the policy of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government. According to the sources, Sharon is not evacuating unauthorized outposts in the territories, is expanding settlement ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 17 00:36:30 PST 2003

584 [lbo-talk] Re: What's at stake? -- rank: 1000

Trust me, this is not an arguement for Dean, it is merely an argument against Chuck's logic... Chuck Says: >the great white blob of >the middle class haven't begun to pay for installing GW in power... >And as for Germany, they sure as hell haven't tried Nazism lately have >they? They took the cure. So suck it up, dude. Now it's our turn. The Germans didn't take the cure, it was the Gypsys, homosexuals, Jews, Catholics, Socialists, mentally retarded...well, just about everyone else th ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 17 00:14:33 PST 2003

585 [lbo-talk] From the Financial Times: Hollinger examines Perle investments -- rank: 1000

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c =StoryFT&cid=1066565838652&p=1012571727108 Hollinger examines Perle investments By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in the Financial Times Published: November 12 2003 21:57 | Last Updated: November 12 2003 21:57 Hollinger International is examining investments that were made by Richard Perle (pictured left), a director on the publisher's board and prominent defense advisor, on behalf of the company. The investigation ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 04:20:06 PST 2003