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1 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Ahmadinejad & Bollinger -- rank: 1000

["...the contankerous exchange between an irresponsible and sensationalist president of a beleaguered and increasingly illegitimate Islamic Republic and the racist president of an Ivy League university in the United States..." <http ... focus.htm> Of banality and burden Hamid Dabashi comments on a meeting of minds Let's, then, be clear at the beginning, Mr. President you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator . . . . I am only a professor, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 11 15:56:48 PDT 2007

2 [lbo-talk] Tony Judt, "Israel: The Alternative" (NY Review of Books) -- rank: 959

... die: it was killed. Mahmoud Abbas was undermined by the President of the Palestinian Authority and humiliated by the Prime Minister of Israel. His successor awaits a similar fate. Israel continues to mock its American patron, building ... illegal settlements in cynical disregard of the "road map." The President of the United States of America has been reduced to a ventriloquist's dummy, pitifully reciting the Israeli cabinet line: "It ... landscape of the Fertile Crescent, Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and a handful of terrorists can all claim victory, and they do ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Fri Oct 3 17:17:11 PDT 2003

3 [lbo-talk] the head Xtian-Zionist nut -- rank: 938

Wall Street Journal - July 27, 2006 Holy War A Texas Preacher Leads Campaign To Let Israel Fight Mr. Hagee Draws Evangelicals By Arguing Jewish State Fulfills Biblical Prophecy 'End of World as We Know ... After Israel sent warplanes into Iraq in 1981 to bomb a nuclear reactor, Texas televangelist John Hagee sent letters to 150 fellow Christian preachers to rally support for the Jewish state. He got just one positive response. When Mr. Hagee pressed ahead with plans for a pro-Israel gathering in a San Antonio theater, he says he got a death ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 27 06:23:47 PDT 2006

4 [lbo-talk] the head Xtian-Zionist nut -- rank: 938

... Street Journal - As of Thursday, July 27, 2006 Holy War A Texas Preacher Leads Campaign To Let Israel Fight Mr. Hagee Draws Evangelicals By Arguing Jewish State Fulfills Biblical Prophecy 'End of World as We Know ... After Israel sent warplanes into Iraq in 1981 to bomb a nuclear reactor, Texas televangelist John Hagee sent letters to 150 fellow Christian preachers to rally support for the Jewish state. He got just one positive response. When Mr. Hagee pressed ahead with plans for a pro-Israel gathering in a San Antonio theater, he says he got a death ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 27 06:21:03 PDT 2006

5 [lbo-talk] the head Xtian-Zionist nut -- rank: 938

... Henwood wrote: > Wall Street Journal - July 27, 2006 > > Holy War > > A Texas Preacher > Leads Campaign > To Let Israel Fight > > Mr. Hagee Draws Evangelicals > By Arguing Jewish State > Fulfills Biblical Prophecy > > 'End of World as We Know ... After Israel sent warplanes into Iraq in 1981 to bomb a > nuclear reactor, Texas televangelist John Hagee sent letters to 150 > fellow Christian preachers to rally support for the Jewish state. > > He got just one positive response. When Mr. Hagee pressed ahead with > plans for a pro-Israel gathering in a San Antonio theater, he says he > got a death ...

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Author:	Joel Schalit
Date:	Thu Jul 27 07:53:11 PDT 2006

6 [lbo-talk] RE: Calculated provocation -- rank: 932

... Could it be that this attitude lends itself to anti-Jewish responses? This is quite long, but I think it's ... not their intent." - Lawrence Summers, 17 September 2002 When the president of Harvard University declared that to criticise Israel at this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 11:54:31 PDT 2004

7 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 925

... com> FEATURE STORY | September 2, 2002 Almost thirty years ago, a prominent group of neoconservative hawks found an effective vehicle for ... advocating their views via the Committee on the Present Danger, a group that fervently believed the United States was a hair away from being militarily surpassed by the Soviet Union ... to any form of arms control and zealous championing of a Likudnik Israel. Considered a marginal group in its nascent days during the Carter Administration ... power. Just as the right-wing defense intellectuals made CPD a cornerstone of a shadow defense establishment during the Carter ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Aug 22 11:01:03 PDT 2002

8 [lbo-talk] Controlling the past -- rank: 919

... Against America -- e.g., an excerpt in the Independent and a puff-piece in the Guardian <http://books.guardian.co.uk ... Old Left, and his ex-wife, Claire Bloom. Here's a review that also manages to propose a more just account of the anti-war movement of the ... Roth's The Plot Against America is the novel that a neoconservative would write, if a neoconservative could write a novel. In 1940, as in 2004, voters faced a ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Fri Sep 24 07:52:36 PDT 2004

9 US/Russia relations, summit -- rank: 904

White House President Bush, Russian President Putin Sign Joint Declaration Remarks by President Bush and President Putin at Signing of Joint Declaration and Press Availability The Kremlin Moscow, Russia 12:55 P.M. (Local) PRESIDENT BUSH: President Putin, thank you very much. Laura and I are ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Fri May 24 06:11:05 PDT 2002

10 Fisk: Fear and Learning in America -- rank: 901

Read a Fisk story, and you realize why we shouldn't have to tolerate assholes like Friedman -- it's a profound lowering of expectations. CK * * * Robert Fisk: Fear and learning ... critic of US policy in the Middle East, Fisk expected a hostile reception when he paid his first visit to the ... Americans did not understand the Middle East. Last week, in a little shuttle bus shouldering its way through curtains of rain ... the state waterways are polluted. "Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and US democracy than ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Tue Apr 16 21:46:09 PDT 2002

11 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, August 3, 2006 -- rank: 901

... s Long-Term Battle 7) Kafr Kila: To Many in a Town Under Attack, Militiamen Are Defenders 8) The Fighting: Israeli ... Opinion Roundup: The Qana Conspiracy Theory 13) Future of Orthodox Jewish Vote Has Implications for GOP 14) Detainees: G.I.'s ... Iraq, It's Hard to Trust Anyone in Uniform 16) A Grim Prognosis for Iraq 17) Lebanon could overshadow Iran's ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Thu Aug 3 13:12:24 PDT 2006

12 The Evil of Two Lessers? -- rank: 901

... are probably mildly jazzed about the idea >of the first Jewish Vice President just as they were about the first >woman. Just on ... about it, the more I think this is kind of a brilliant choice. >It's certainly the first bold or interesting ... Gore's ever done, and >that in itself gives him a bounce. > >Michael [Lieberman's pure all right – pure toxic waste. From today's Salon, here's a good article on this moral paradigm, ID'd here as ... Joe Gore's vice-presidential pick, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, has a reputation as a centrist respected by all --

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Tue Aug 8 09:25:02 PDT 2000

13 Washington Post on Likudniks -- rank: 891

... the "deep friendship" he has built with the Bush administration -- "a special closeness," he called it. He thanked President Bush for understanding Israel's security needs and for providing ... on terrorism." He praised Bush's latest proposals for reaching a Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement -- a plan, said Sharon, that he and Bush had agreed on ... supporters call the closest relationship in decades, perhaps ever, between a U.S. president and an Israeli government. "This is the best administration ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Fri Feb 21 14:51:22 PST 2003

14 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 882

... Zionist side, which Truman was part of, probably countered that a failure to support partition would increase Soviet influence within the ... sole source of diplmatic and military support for the nascent Jewish state. > > There was no pro-Zionist faction in the State ... other side. The main influence on Truman's decision was a Jewish political aide named David Niles. > > If you search "Truman and Israel" on Amazon.com, something like a dozen books on this question

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed Aug 11 15:38:53 PDT 2010

15 [lbo-talk] Anti Latin American Postings -- rank: 882

... the August 8, 2005 issue: Venezuela's Hugo Chávez is a threat to more than just his own people. by Thor ... Venezuela "IMAGINE OUR JOY at being free and far from a land in which everything threatened us with death." The young refugee's words leap off the tattered clipping from a 1939 edition of La Esfera, a Venezuelan newspaper. "It is such a holy occurrence given that we were expelled from Germany and ... and the Caribia--that left Nazi Germany that year with a human cargo that would otherwise have been sentenced to ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Aug 3 09:35:40 PDT 2005