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3376 [lbo-talk] analyzing Israeli propaganda -- rank: 1000

My Facebook pal Elise Hendrick has a nice analysis of Israel's propaganda line on the jihadist flotilla: http://meldungen-aus-dem-exil.noblogs.org/post/2010/06/04/the-agricola-principle-how-israel-and-its-apologists-defend-the-indefensible or http://bit.ly/doqz6i Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 4 14:46:36 PDT 2010

3377 [lbo-talk] the new official IDF line -- rank: 1000

On Jun 4, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On 6/4/10, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> <http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177445> > > This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Every word is > hilarious: mercenaries, well-trained, without IDs, metal bars, etc., > and the best one, "Motorola communication device." Really, if > someone's carrying a "Motorola communication device," for > self-protection y ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 4 14:05:22 PDT 2010

3378 [lbo-talk] the new official IDF line -- rank: 1000

<http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177445> Based on preliminary results of its investigation into the navy s takeover of the Mavi Marmara, which ended with nine dead passengers and more than 30 wounded, the IDF said on Thursday that the commandos were attacked by a well-trained group of mercenaries, most of whom were found without IDs but with thousands of dollars in their pockets. The group was well trained and was split into a number of squads of about 20 mercenaries each ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 4 13:24:26 PDT 2010

3379 [lbo-talk] Fwd: URGENT: Contact lost - 'Rachel Corrie' en route to Gaza PLEASE DISSEMINATE -- rank: 1000

[can't vouch for this, but FYI] ----- Original Message ----- From: Miri Weingarten To: i-opt at googlegroups. com Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 9:46 AM Subject: URGENT: Contact lost - 'Rachel Corrie' en route to Gaza Dear all, Organisers of the flotilla have informed me that all communication has been lost with the boat 'Rachel Corrie', en route to Gaza with 15(?) passengers including Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, and medical supplies. Spotting mechanism, Sat. phones and radio all o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 06:54:40 PDT 2010

3380 [lbo-talk] FT on massacre -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2010, at 11:37 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > But is this amount direct aid or does it also include loans? It would not include loans - it's an unrequited transfer, in the jargon.

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 20:49:25 PDT 2010

3381 [lbo-talk] FT on massacre -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > It's a public fact that US annual US public aid to Israel has been ~ > $3B ever since Camp David. But has annual US private aid really > consistently been ~$4.5B during that same period? To me that's > news, and important news, esp. in a post 9/11 world where > effectively cutting off private donations is now commonplace. Do > you remember the sources for this figure? I got the $7.5b from the IMF's International Financial S ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 18:56:52 PDT 2010

3382 [lbo-talk] Peter Orlovsky, RIP -- rank: 1000

Peter Orlovsky 1933-2010 Elephant Journal May 30, 2010 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/05/peter-orlovsky-ill/ On the Death of Peter Orlovsky by Anne Waldman "The Shellean farmer astride hid Pegasusian tractor" as Gregory Corso once knighted him passed on today, May 30 2010 to the elysian fields, a bardo of becoming. First glance hour earlier Peter was resting with "trach" in throat in orange sheets at the kind Vt Respite Center in Williston, Vermont (but no extra tubes/ ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 12:12:32 PDT 2010

3383 [lbo-talk] liberals thinking constructively (cont.) -- rank: 1000

[from Romenesko] PBS ombud says Smiley 'went off course' with remarks about Christian killers PBS.org On his May 25th show, Tavis Smiley told his guest that Christians regularly blow people up. "Oh, Christians, every day, people walk into post offices, they walk into schools, that's what Columbine is -- I could do this all day long. There are so many more examples of Christians -- and I happen to be a Christian." Ombud Michael Getler writes: "While there are no doubt people ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 2 09:11:29 PDT 2010

3384 [lbo-talk] Multipolar Geopolitics and the Middle East -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Israel _could_ become more of a liability on a global scale than a > useful ally in the Middle East. What Japan, China, U.S., Europe _need_ > in the middle east is a 'peaceful' climate guaranteed by a trustworthy > military force. At one time the Shah supplied the latter. Then Isreal. > But is its military power _still_ a guaranty of peace rather than a > center of disturbances? I don't know. I'm not sure of this, but I've been t ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 07:15:02 PDT 2010

3385 [lbo-talk] FT on massacre -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > But see your problem is that you fail to see that the United States is > responsible for all evil (or corruption, or criminality, or fill in > your favorite moral-outrage word here) in the world; other states > don't really have their political aspirations and needs, they just > reflect US prerogatives. Israel was innocent like Little Red Riding > Hood on its way to join the community of nations before it met the Big > Bad Wolf ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 06:38:54 PDT 2010

3386 [lbo-talk] UNDP on Gaza -- rank: 1000

By coincidence, the UNDP has just released a report on Gaza's very partial recovery from the 2008/2009 Israeli invasion: http://www.undp.ps/en/newsroom/publications/pdf/other/gazaoneyear.pdf

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Date:	Tue Jun 1 18:58:53 PDT 2010

3387 [lbo-talk] admin calls in James Cameron on spill -- rank: 1000

<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jl64BJXcQfEi139LaAlsnU0XWS-QD9G2LOB82 > Feds meet with film director Cameron on oil spill By MATTHEW DALY (AP) 6 hours ago WASHINGTON "Top kill" didn't stop the Gulf oil spill. How about something "titanic"? Federal officials are hoping film director James Cameron can help them come up with ideas on how to stop the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The "Avatar" and "Titanic" director ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 1 18:39:49 PDT 2010

3388 [lbo-talk] FT on massacre -- rank: 1000

[This is sophisticated bourgeois opinion, but it does suggest that there's really no global ruling class consensus in favor of Israel.] Financial Times - May 31, 2010 Israel is lost at sea With Monday s brazen act of piracy, Israel dealt a blow to the legitimacy of its own struggle. The killing of activists aboard the captured ships sent Israel s way of defending its security, which it was already imperative to return within the bounds of international law, hurtling into lawlessness. Israel ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 1 18:20:03 PDT 2010

3389 [lbo-talk] U.S. in Israel's corner -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Bigger, certainly. But the Gazans haven't exactly cracked. Credit > where it's due, eh? How do you measure that? They're still breathing, yeah, but what a life. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 1 14:21:13 PDT 2010

3390 [lbo-talk] U.S. in Israel's corner -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2010, at 4:29 PM, socialismorbarbarism wrote: > Sure, but again, Israel is just following the US lead--doesn't the > occupation of Iraq fit this term to a 't'? Gaza's population is penned in and defenseless. The Iraqi population has proved a tougher nut to crack, don't you think? Doug

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