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661 Strange election day in Israel -- rank: 1000

Seems the Labour party is so in need of votes that they are taking drastic measures. Late yesterday evening my sister phoned me (she lives in Kfar Saba)...apparently Mitzna personally phoned my brother in law at work and attempted to call my sister (her cellular phone happened to run out of batteries when he called) to try to persuade them to vote for Labour. I was a bit skeptical at first when my sister called me (I asked them how they knew it was really him), but it seems that the father of so ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Jan 28 09:00:08 PST 2003

662 Shinui -- rank: 1000

Shinui are for mass privitization of the economy and are interested in ending all forms of welfare. They are for keeping a good portion of the occupied territories (annexing the large settlement blocs), they are against any form of unilateral withdrawl, etc. Further, in the last election, Lapid made it clear that he is NOT for a complete separation of church and state. He wants to make sure that the Jewish character of the state is safe-guarded. Shinui voted in favor of the 2003 State Budget. I ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jan 16 01:23:51 PST 2003

663 The Department of SOTSOTSOT -- rank: 1000

My friend Paul Ford, who has a brilliant website (Ftrain.com), just published this piece on a certain culture studies dept... The piece is here: http://ftrain.com/mckee_recursion.html But here is a bi of a clip from the article: --------------------------------------------------------------------- My host, a tall, thin, stooped man of 40, led me from the administration, past the library, quoting the number of volumes with pride, and then past the humanities building. Looking up, I noticed a blac ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jan 16 00:35:12 PST 2003

664 (corrected) Zizek Lecture: "Why September 12th is More Important than September 11th " -- rank: 1000

Hi all, (BTW: I forgot to delete out the introduction to the lecture which was given in Hebrew...the intro it slightly less than two minutes long.) So I finally got the lecture of Zizek from January 12th in Jerusalem published on Indymedia Israel. It was given for a conference on "Religion, Nationalism and Violence" sponsored by the Jerusalem Spinoza Institute. To listen to the lecture, go here: http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/47053.html The title of the Lecture was titl ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 14 00:18:33 PST 2003

665 Zizek Lecture: "Why September 12th is More Important than September 11th " -- rank: 1000

Hi all, So I finally got the lecture of Zizek from January 12th in Jerusalem published on Indymedia Israel. It was given for a conference on "Religion, Nationalism and Violence" sponsored by the Jerusalem Spinoza Institute. To listen to the lecture, go here: http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/47053.html The title of the Lecture was titled: "Why September 12th is More Important than September 11th" The lecture is 72 minutes long, 32kbps mp3 (16.60MB). I tested it ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 14 00:14:27 PST 2003

666 Hardass Marxists Re: Deleuze & Guattari, Zizek on Arendt (More from Brennan) -- rank: 1000

For all you Zizek heads (and those who find him annoying) He is in Israel for the week and is speaking at several various venues. Today he spoke in Jerusalem at the Spinoza Institute...beautiful place overlooking the old city (Mt. Zion and the Church of Dormition across the valley) The lecture was titled "Why Sept. 12 is more important than Sept. 11th" or something of that sort...it was done for a conference on Religion, Nationalism and Violence. While he did vaguely speak the first mi ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 12 13:44:46 PST 2003

667 "Israel's proxy war" -- rank: 1000

Did anyone happen to read "One Palestine, Complete" by Tom Segev? In his second Chapter, titled "A contract with Jewry" he holds that British backing of the Zionists during WWI, culminating in the Balfour Declaration of November, 1917, actually stemmed out of the anti-semetic view that Jews control the world and it would best be to placate them so that they make the war go the British way. Here is a quote from the first paragraph of the second chapter: "The British ente ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 27 13:02:39 PST 2003

668 The Legitimization of political assasination in the Israeli media -- rank: 1000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=266417&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y Laundering language By Akiva Eldar (last section of his article) Many years of observing Islamic zealots and an intimate familiarity with the Israeli intelligence services has turned Prof. Immanuel Sivan into a sharp-eyed observer of the war Israel is currently conducting against the Hamas. In a lecture delivered last week, Sivan referred to news reports abut &quo ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 25 06:51:09 PST 2003

669 Yes, (just strap this on) the boss trusts you -- rank: 1000

Yes, (just strap this on) the boss trusts you Haim Bior Haaretz Monday, February 24, 2003 Tel Aviv Organizations big and small are increasingly using polygraph tests to uncover the sources of leaks to competitors or to the press. A decision by the incoming Cellcom CEO, Yitzhak Peterburg, to send all senior management personnel for polygraph, or lie detector, tests to reveal who leaked information from closed meetings is nothing out of the ordinary. Most organizational experts say that such a st ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 24 11:45:59 PST 2003

670 Palestinian Exiles' Right of Return -- Feasibility -- rank: 1000

> How live an issue is this within Israel? Is it only a lunatic fringe > that questions the notion of a Jewish state, or is it broader than > that? > > Doug Besides those Jews who voted Hadash, the far left, the Arab Sector, etc...I would say that a good percentage of those who voted Shinui were really saying they didn't want to live in a Jewish state anymore...they wanted a separation of Church and State, civil marriage, etc... It was more gut feeling on their part (they weren't ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 23 21:37:52 PST 2003

671 Palestinian Exiles' Right of Return -- Feasibility -- rank: 1000

>I agree. My point was that we do have to take into accoint the changed circumstances. What was possible, feasible, and right ex ante is not necessarily so afterwards. We cannot >expect the Nebraskans or the Israeli Jews to "go back where they came from" and leave the land to the descendants of the people whom their ancestors, or people of their ancestors >generation, disposessed. That is all I meant by saying that the sell-by date had passed. >jks You are correct, and I un ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 23 08:27:03 PST 2003

672 Shinui set to join coalition with National Religious Party (NRP) and Likud -- ('Just not the Mizrahim') -- rank: 1000

As I said before (during the Israeli elections) about Shinui, they have nothing against religious parties...as long as they are rabidly pro-Zionist militant Ashkanazi religious parties like the NRP... Bryan ................. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=265900&displayTypeCd=1&sideCd=1&contrassID=2] Background / Lapid, Eitam have shared interest: 'Just not Shas' By Avirama Golan, Ha'aretz The agreement sealed Sunday morning, after eight hours of discussions ov ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 23 07:31:19 PST 2003

673 Palestinian Exiles' Right of Return -- Feasibility -- rank: 1000

Seth: > When you try to equate the virtual impossibility of Israel ever agreeing to > an unlimited refugee return with the current Israeli government's refusal to > end the occupation, you're again glossing over the crucial point: There is > considerable support in Israel for ending the occupation and returning to > more or less the 1967 borders. One should always demand adherance of parties to the best of the current and agreed upon practical solutions, while at the same time att ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 23 03:33:28 PST 2003

674 right of return -- rank: 1000

Max:> The answer to the > moral quandry is simple: all the Jews should pick up > and move to Nebraska. Um...maybe we need to ask permission from the Pawnee, Oto, Omaha, Sioux, Apache, etc. before we do anything drastic. Or did the expiration date go out on the legitimacy of their claim?... Bryan

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Date:	Sat Feb 22 10:43:41 PST 2003

675 Darwin in Texas -- rank: 1000

> The biology professor, Michael L. Dini, had a strict policy. He would write > recommendations only for students who could "truthfully and forthrightly > affirm a scientific answer" to this question: "How do you think the human > species originated?" Spradling, who believes in creationism, believed that > made him ineligible.... Last month, the Justice Department launched an investigation into whether > Dini's insistence that his students affirm a belief in ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 16 23:43:05 PST 2003