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631 Attorney Avigdor Feldman on refusal to serve the occupation -- rank: 1000

Avigdor Feldman is an important Civil/Human Rights Lawyer in Israel. Among his other cases in the past, he defended Mordechai Vanunu and recently he acted as the advocate in a joint petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice by Director Mohammed Bakri and Indymedia Israel over the censorship of Bakri's film "Jenin Jenin". (http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/news/lateststories/?disp_feature=1Za0Ls.var) Wednesday evening, March 12 - the Throne of Justice Hall at the Tel-Aviv University ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 15 06:29:58 PST 2003

632 Gibson Family Under Fire for Anti-Semitism -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Thu Mar 13 01:57:45 PST 2003

633 Gibson Family Under Fire for Anti-Semitism -- rank: 1000

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/030903_nw_gibson.html Gibson Family Under Fire for Anti-Semitism LOS ANGELES Mel Gibson and his parents are under fire today from a leading Jewish group for reportedly anti-semitic impulses in the former's new film and the latter's denial that Al Qaeda executed the Sept. 11 attacks. The actor's father, Hutton Gibson, told The New York Times he flatly rejected that the terrorist group led by Usama bin Laden had any role in the attacks on the World Trade Center a ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 13 01:44:37 PST 2003

634 Hydrogen cars? Fahgeddabeddit! (Land Use issue) -- rank: 1000

Ask and Ye shall recieve: From: "Kevin Robert Dean" <qualiall at union.org.za> > But how much land is needed? I'm guessing we'd have to cut > down a lot of trees. http://www.awea.org/faq/land.html How Much Land is Required for Large Wind Plants? With today's wind turbine technology, wind power could supply 20% of this country's electricity, according to a recent study by Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL). Today's technology exploits high-wind locations--those in wind powe ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 11 05:51:35 PST 2003

635 The Palestinians don't even have weather -- rank: 1000

The Palestinians don't even have weather Tanya Reinhart The entire article is at: http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/display.php3?article_id=51972 ...A few days ago it snowed in Jerusalem. On Tuesday, Ferbruary 25th, the cold wave featured in all Israeli papers as the main news. Even in my heated home in Tel Aviv it was cold. My thoughts wandered to my Palestinian friends - colleagues from Bir Zeit University. How does the snow fare with a family that still has a home, but not tha ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 11 00:22:40 PST 2003

636 Terrorism by any other name -- rank: 1000

Terrorism by any other name By Gidon Levy in Ha'aretz Terrorism begets terrorism - there is no other way to describe the violent relations that have developed between us and the Palestinians. There is no need to elaborate on the cruelty of their terrorist attacks, certainly not for the Israeli reader, and even less so after last week's horrific suicide bombing in Haifa. Murderers of children are murderers of children, without any ifs or buts. The debate is over our attacks, which we are trying t ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 9 22:32:13 PST 2003

637 The War Party's Fucked. -- rank: 1000

This seems like a pretty clear statement to me, from the Russians, Germans and French: -------------------------------------- Following is the official text of the joint declaration made by the foreign ministers of France, Russia and Germany on Wednesday setting out their position on Iraq: Our common objective remains the full and effective disarmament of Iraq, in compliance with Resolution 1441. We consider that this objective can be achieved by the peaceful means of the inspections. We moreove ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 5 10:50:04 PST 2003

638 Lawyer Arrested for Wearing a 'Peace' T-Shirt -- rank: 1000

Lawyer Arrested for Wearing a 'Peace' T-Shirt Wed March 5, 2003 08:30 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall. According to the criminal complaint filed on Monday, Stephen Downs was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Give Peace A Chance" that he had just purchased from a vendor inside the Crossgates Ma ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 5 07:33:49 PST 2003

639 [lbo-talk] "Former Israeli soldiers return to occupied territories to give aid" Independent/UK -- rank: 1000

Ronen Eidelman, who was interviewed for this article in the Independent, is one of the founding members of Indymedia Israel and editors of our Hebrew language journal "Khan" (Here), and more recently helped to found the joint Israeli/Palestinian/International Mas'ha Camp in protest of the Separation Wall.(for more information on the ongoing activities in the Mas'ha Camp: http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/webcast/search-process.php3?keyword=mas%27ha ) Bryan -------------------------- Form ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 29 09:26:34 PDT 2003

640 [lbo-talk] Sharon: settlement construction can continue, but quietly -- rank: 1000

Sharon: settlement construction can continue, but quietly In clear violation of the international peace plan known as the road map, Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon said he would allow construction in Jewish settlements to continue, the Israeli Yediot Ahronot daily reported yesterday. They (the settlers) can build in the settlements, but they should not talk about it and go out dancing every time they get a building permit. Let them build without talking, he was quoted as telling his Cabinet on Su ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 09:04:44 PDT 2003

641 [lbo-talk] Jewish immigration to Israel has fallen sharply -- rank: 1000

Jewish immigration to Israel has fallen sharply Associated Press Immigration to Israel has fallen sharply so far this year, and officials are considering what to do to reverse the trend, Israel's minister of immigrant absorption said Monday. The minister, Tzipi Livni, admitted that immigration to Israel is in a "tailspin." She said her ministry needed to examine the attitudes of potential immigrants and find ways to make Israel more attractive to them. A main factor depressing immigra ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 02:09:00 PDT 2003

642 [lbo-talk] "I Accuse" by Sergio Yahni /AIC -- rank: 1000

I think Sergio has expressed in the most clear manner what has led to this currrent situation: http://www.alternativenews.org/ I Accuse Wednesday, June 11th, 2003 Sergio Yahni / AIC I accuse Ariel Sharon and Shaul Mofaz, Prime minister of Israel and its Minister of Defense respectively of provoking the assassination of tens of Israelis for the sake of narrow political interests. I accuse Ariel Sharon and Shaul Mofaz of contentiously provoking a military escalation between Israelis and Palestinia ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 12 07:50:17 PDT 2003

643 [lbo-talk] The Complex Art of Simulation -- by Tanya Reinhart -- rank: 1000

http://indymedia.org.il/imc/webcast/58986.html THE COMPLEX ART OF SIMULATION Tanya Reinhart Yediot Aharonot, June 6, 2003 Translated from Hebrew by Bryan Atinsky; quotes expanded [The article went to Print a few hours before Israel's attempted assassination of Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Abdel Aziz Rantisi.] The Israeli public discourse has been storming around "Sharon's revolutionary change of mind". The extensive debate on his psyche focuses on the question whether he has changed from t ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 11 23:51:38 PDT 2003

644 [lbo-talk] Tension in Likud over anti-road map resolution -- rank: 1000

Tension in Likud over anti-road map resolution By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent Senior Likud members failed late Saturday night to forge a compromise over a resolution opposing the road map peace plan, which is to be presented at a meeting of the Likud convention in Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon. At the center of the controversy is a resolution containing five points and which has been drawn up by convention chairman and Agriculture Minister Yisrael Katz, who voted against the road map in ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 8 07:50:46 PDT 2003

645 [lbo-talk] New Ultra-Orthodox Mayor of Jerusalem: Haredim get out the vote (38.02 percent voter turnout in total) -- rank: 1000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=300645&contrassID=2&su bContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y Lupolianski is capital's first Haredi mayor By Jonathan Lis Religious parties now hold 18 of 31 seats on council. Ultra-Orthodox candidate and acting Mayor Uri Lupolianski (Degel Hatorah) overcame independent businessman Nir Barkat to emerge yesterday as Jerusalem's mayor for the next five years. Lupolianski won 51.39 percent of the ballots cast in the mayoral el ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 5 04:39:38 PDT 2003