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706 [lbo-talk] Mes'ha, many activists arrested; bulldozers destorying: Call for international Action -- rank: 1000

http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/webcast/display.php3?article_id=63056 Mes'ha, many activists arrested; bulldozers destorying by indy 10:33am Tue Aug 5 '03 the israeli army arrested around 40 international and Israeli peace activists who spent the night there. parts of Hani and Munira Amer and their six children home destroyed. [We have been celebrating too early when we thought that the home of Hani and Munira Amer and their six children would be spared encirclement by The Wall...] among the act ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Aug 5 03:52:04 PDT 2003

707 [lbo-talk] Knesset Passes Racist Law Barring Family Unification of Palestinians Married to Israeli Citizens: Adalah to Petition Supreme Court -- rank: 1000

For text of the law in English go to: http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/webcast/62942.html 31 July 2003 Knesset Passes Racist Law Barring Family Unification of Palestinians Married to Israeli Citizens: Adalah to Petition Supreme Court Today, by a vote of 53 in favor, 25 against, and one abstention, the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) passed a new law titled, "Nationality and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) - 2003." Introduced and supported by the government, the law bars Palestinian ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun Aug 3 14:10:38 PDT 2003

708 [lbo-talk] Wall Map -- rank: 1000

For the most accurate map of the Separation/Aparthied Wall/Fence/Barrier with location of each of the villages that are cut off by the wall, which settlements they enclose, etc.: http://www.btselem.org/English/Separation_Barrier/Index.asp download the .pdf file Bryan > But all of that combined is nothing compared to the reality that you can > now see on a map. Forget the minor land grabbling. The wall has been > completely transformed from something that walls the Palestinians out to ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 3 00:04:23 PDT 2003

709 [lbo-talk] On ISM and the 'Security Barrier' -- rank: 1000

Hi all, For the past several days, there has been a discussion going on in Indy Israel about ISM ideology and tactics, justifications for the 'Security Barrier', questioning whether property destruction is non-violence, etc. The discussants include members of ISM, Zionist Left and non-Zionist Israelis, and Zionist Right. The amazing thing is that the discussion has for the most part been comparatively intelligent and informative. I reccomend reading it for a generally accurate picture of the id ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sat Aug 2 23:17:28 PDT 2003

710 [lbo-talk] Ta'ayush demonstration near the 'Wall of Separation' -- rank: 1000

April 26: approximately 600 Arabs, Jews and some Internationals demonstrated against the annexation and expropriation of Palestinian land that is taking place through the building of the 'Wall of Separation' in the Tulkarem region. As stated on the Ta'ayush website: "'The Wall of Separation', which has risen far and deep east of the Green Line. The outline of this wall/fence was decided according to the demands of the settlers. It constitutes an organized land robbery on a grand scale, effe ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun Apr 27 05:01:49 PDT 2003

711 [lbo-talk] Number of job seekers in Israel jumps 6.4% in first quarter of 2003 -- rank: 1000

Number of job seekers in Israel jumps 6.4% in first quarter of 2003 By Ruth Sinai and Amir Teig in Ha'aretz The number of job seekers rose 6.4 percent in the first quarter of 2003, the government Employment Service announced Monday. The average monthly number of job seekers who came to Employement Service offices throughout the country from January through April of this year was 194,900, as compared to 183,200 in the last quarter of 2002. About 60 percent of all new job seekers had been laid off ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 16 04:35:34 PDT 2003

712 [lbo-talk] Court refuses to outlaw IDF's use of controversial flechette shells -- rank: 1000

Israel Insider Report from today: The High Court of Justice ruled on Sunday that it did not have the authority to determine what weapons the Israel Defense Forces use. The court turned down a petition launched by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) calling for a ban on the controversial tank-fired flechette shells, which explode in the air and scatter thousands of five centimeter-long steel darts over a large area. "We won't determine what weapons the IDF uses," Justice Eliyahu Matza tol ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 06:34:34 PDT 2003

713 [lbo-talk] Israeli report clears Israeli Army troops over Rachel Corrie's death -- rank: 1000

It was obvious before the report came out what it would say, but here is an article on it anyway: From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,936327,00.html Israeli report clears troops over US death: Peace activist killed by bulldozer acted 'illegally and dangerously' An Israeli army investigation into the death of Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist, has concluded that its forces were not to blame for her death. It accused Corrie and other members of the International Solidarity ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Mon Apr 14 05:58:20 PDT 2003

714 [lbo-talk] Israeli soldiers shoot another ISM activist (Interview with ISM about the shooting of Tom Hundall) -- rank: 1000

We now put up an audio interview about the shooting that we did with Raf, one of the ISM activists who was at the scene when the shooting occured: http://indymedia.org.il/imc/webcast/54129.html Friday, April 10th, in Rafah, Gaza, Tom Hundall, a peace activist from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was attempting to move two girls to safety from an area where the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were using live-overhead-fire as a crowd dispersal method when he was shot in the head by an IDF ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun Apr 13 23:48:57 PDT 2003

715 [lbo-talk] Israeli soldiers shoot another ISM activist in the head -- rank: 1000

For a graphic picture of the shooting: http://rotter.net/cgi-bin/forum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&forum=scoop&om=61 99&omm=19&viewmode= Israeli soldiers shoot another ISM activist in the head Between 4:30 and 5:00 PM today Israeli snipers shot another ISM activist in the head. Tom Hundall from Manchester Britain is currently in critical condition in a helicopter on his way from Europa Hospital in Khan Younis to a hospital in Bir Sheva. He is 22 years old. According to Laura, the ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 13 00:11:29 PDT 2003

716 [lbo-talk] the underbelly of a warlord capitalist state (Orthodox Connection) -- rank: 1000

From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at attbi.com> > Israelis at center of ecstasy drug trade > By Nathan Guttman > Sunday, April 06, 2003 Yeah, they sure do love there Ecstacy here... A lot (I don't know percentages, but it is sizable) of the actual smuggling is done within the ultra-orthodox community. My guess is that a number of these ultra-orthodox come from the Breslov Chassidim community, but this is somewhat speculation stemming from my own personal observation. They a ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 5 23:08:17 PST 2003

717 [lbo-talk] College students support war? -- rank: 1000

> Professors Protest as Students Debate > > By KATE ZERNIKE >... Irvine Valley College in Southern California sent faculty members a memo > that warned them not to discuss the war unless it was specifically related > to the course material. When professors cried censorship, the administration > explained that the request had come from students... The explanation of the administration sounds a bit dubious...the fact that a request came from students means nothing. How many st ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 5 10:01:35 PST 2003

718 [lbo-talk] The Story of Christine George Saadeh -- rank: 1000

A co-worker of my wife (her NGO has an office in Tel-Aviv, Bethlehem and Amman) is good friends with the family described below. The co-worker sent me this article. Bryan ---------------------------------------------------------- Christine George Saadeh A small girl, named Christine, 12 years old, was born in Bethlehem on 14/11/1990, to a Christian family. Her father s name is George, the mother is Najwa, and the small sister called Marian, who is now 14 years old. She was born in the First gulf ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 4 05:51:55 PST 2003

719 [lbo-talk] House Demolitions in Sur-Baher -- rank: 1000

Thursday, April 3rd, 2003 The Israeli Daily newspaper, Hašaretz, said that a total of 16 homes were demolished in the Jerusalem area today. Activists went one of the demolition sites and this is their story. House Demolitions in Sur-Baher By Naama Nagar and Avia Keisar 10:30 Am. six volunteers from The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and other activist organizations arrived at Deir Al-Amud neighbourhood in Sur-Baher, south of Jerusalem. A little earlier that morning inspector ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 3 11:19:55 PST 2003

720 [lbo-talk] Send in the bulldozers: what Israel told marines about urban battles -- rank: 1000

Send in the bulldozers: what Israel told marines about urban battles As troops close on Baghdad, Pentagon takes notes on house-to-house fighting in Jenin Chris McGreal in Jerusalem Wednesday April 2, 2003 The Guardian Martin van Creveld's advice to the US marines on what lessons to draw from Israel's bloody urban battle in Jenin was precise: Forget the helicopters, invest in armoured bulldozers. For months now, the Pentagon has been taking notes from the Israelis in preparation for what looks in ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 2 13:42:34 PST 2003