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646 [lbo-talk] Them there American Jews and Yees-raw-ail -- rank: 1000

This is from today's Ha'aretz. Gots to give credit to Hillel's creative marketing campaign, quoted at the end of the article: "Hillel activists distributed on campus condoms with the slogan "Israel - It's still safe to come." " Bryan --------------------------------------- Israel not high on young U.S. Jews' agenda By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent WASHINGTON - Young American Jews can no longer be expected to supply sweeping support for Israel nor to refrain from expre ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 04:10:53 PDT 2003

647 [lbo-talk] Why Were The Hussein Boys Killed? -- rank: 1000

>From: "Shane Taylor" <s-t-t at juno.com> > > Who *is* Israel Shamir?? He is originally from Russia but moved to Israel in 69, lives in Jaffa. And though he has quite a small following in Israel, he has surprisingly a sizable international following. I, sadly, often meet people (Like ISMers, other internationals who come to do activist work in Palestine) who tell me that they are big followers of his writing. He even did a talk at Columbia University a couple years ago ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 13:35:48 PDT 2003

648 [lbo-talk] Why Were The Hussein Boys Killed? -- rank: 1000

For a (in my opinion way over the top) condemnation of the assasination of Udai and Kusai, read below. Check out this quote full of sycophantic hyperbole, from the end of the article: "Noble and brave, the sons of Saddam Hussein did not escape to a faraway land; they did not pocket billions for surrender, they did not lounge in Minsk or Riyadh as the dishonest mainstream media suggested. The Young Lions of Baghdad, they fought the superior forces of aggressor, and fell defending their homel ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 09:41:40 PDT 2003

649 [lbo-talk] Soldier serving in an elite unit shows his father how to use a gun -- rank: 1000

Soldier shows his father how to use a gun By Roni Singer, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service A soldier killed his father in their Rishon Letzion home Thursday night while showing his family how he uses his gun. The father, 50, had asked his 22-year-old son how he protects himself from being kidnapped, family members said. The Israel Defense Forces has received warnings of soldier kidnappings recently, and is in the midst of searching for a missing soldier who may have been kidnapped. The ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 04:15:18 PDT 2003

650 [lbo-talk] International petition against the apartheid and transfer wall -- rank: 1000

Please consider signing this petition against the wall initiated by Etienne Balibar. It calls upon the International Community to pressure Israel to stop building the wall. Also please send the link to your lists. Petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/stw/petition.html To: The United Nations, the democratic forces and governments, humanitarian organizations and the Jewish communities around the world The Israeli government is currently erecting the Wall of Separation euphemistically called ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 11:06:47 PDT 2003

651 [lbo-talk] FT: Poll says 74% of Jewish settlers will leave if paid -- rank: 1000

Poll says Jewish settlers will leave if paid Seventy-four per cent of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be willing to leave their homes in return for compensation from the Israeli government as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians, according to an opinion poll published on Wednesday. http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c =StoryFT&cid=1058868072456&p=1012571727172

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 07:19:50 PDT 2003

652 [lbo-talk] detailed maps of West Bank settlements and Apartheid Wall -- rank: 1000

BTW....these (quite detailed) maps from B'Tselem may be helpful in putting settlement names and stories about the Apartheid Wall into geographical context. West Bank Settlement map: http://www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/Land_Grab_Map.asp Separation Barrier Map: http://www.btselem.org/English/Separation_Barrier/Map.asp Bryan

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 00:07:15 PDT 2003

653 [lbo-talk] 5,415 more settlers since beginning of year -- rank: 1000

5,415 more settlers since beginning of year By Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service The number of Jews living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has risen by 5,415 since the beginning of 2003, with Betar Illit growing the fastest, Interior Ministry statistics from the end of June reveal. The ministry found that there are 231,443 settlers living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and that the largest settlements are Ma'aleh Adumim, Modi'in Illit and Betar Illit, Israel Radio reported ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 23:48:22 PDT 2003

654 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on ending occupation (organization or "total Chaos") -- rank: 1000

>From: "Charles Brown" > CB: I have not really seen it demonstrated that the Iraqi's do not , right > now, have organizations capable of administering society, and that if the > U.S. were to get out right now there would be "total chaos". The problem in Iraq is not that there aren't organizations capable of administering society, it is that there are several of them. You have a well armed population (not in comparison to the US, but enough for a sustained civil w ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 14:50:38 PDT 2003

655 [lbo-talk] The State of Human Rights in Israel 2003 -- rank: 1000

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel has just published "The State of Human Rights in Israel 2003". I have copied below the general intro and the introduction to the section on the undermining of the foundations of democracy, but I reccomend reading the whole of the report for an understanding of the present situation in Israel. The whole report can be found in english at: http://www.acri.org.il/english-acri/engine/story.asp?id=125 Bryan ----------------------------------------- ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 10:56:54 PDT 2003

656 [lbo-talk] Demonizing Stalin -- rank: 1000

> I don't normally agree with Kagarltsky on anything, but he's spot-on here > with his discussion of the hysterical cult of demonizing Stalin: > http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/03/25/009.html > For non- or anti-socialists, it is important to cojoin and essentialize socialism in genreal to the specific socio-cultural and historical trajectory of the Soviet Union. Demonizing Stalin as an individual then exposes and demonizes the 'truth' of EVERY POSSIBLE socialism. For many ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 03:59:57 PDT 2003

657 [lbo-talk] Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 1000

Dennis, There seems to be an all too common tendency among the 'left' to fall into the formulation of an highly uncritical binary schema of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. One which is dangerous in its deceptive simplicity and which doesn't see that the answer isn't in deciding this or that, but neither this nor that (I am aware that this tendency is common to all ideological stands. The right would merely switch around the negitive and positive definitions): Zionist Nationalism Bad/ Palestini ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 19 10:18:30 PDT 2003

658 [lbo-talk] Knesset plenum votes: `West Bank and Gaza are not occupied territories` -- rank: 1000

With Sharon away, the Likud MKs play By Gideon Alon in Ha'aretz http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=318672 The Likud faction in the Knesset yesterday took advantage of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's absence abroad to push a hawkish resolution through the Knesset plenum. In a 26-8 vote on the road map, the Knesset ruled "the areas of Yesha are not `occupied territory' - neither historically, according to international law, nor according to political agreements signed by Isra ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 19 06:47:35 PDT 2003

659 Strange election day in Israel -- rank: 1000

Apparently this is the lowest voter turnout in Israeli history. Just now, Yossi Sarid (head of Meretz) said he would step down in the coming days if the number of mandates for the party stays around the level of what it showed in the exit polls. There is a theory being bandied about now that the center/right in Labour will pressure Mitzna to step down and then they will join into a secular coalition with Likud and Shinui (and that the Bush Administration is pressing for this result)...which is T ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 13:29:36 PST 2003

660 Strange election day in Israel -- rank: 1000

Well, voter turnout was significantly less than 70%... At 8:00 P.M. they estimated 63.5%. Looking at various exit polls: Channel 1 (Nationally owned) gives Likud 36 mandates while Channel 2 (commercial T.V) gives Likud 33 Ha'aretz: Likud 34 Channel 1: Labour 18 Channel 2: Labour 19 Ha'aretz: Labour 17 Shinui won big...They either tied or are only a couple seats behind Labour: Channel 1: Shinui 14 Channel 2: Shinui 17 Ha'aretz: 17 Shas moved from 17 last election to Channel 1: Shas 13 Channel 2 ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 12:30:08 PST 2003