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1081 the face of Liberal activism -- rank: 367

This is a clip from a current post to another list by a woman activist. She's jewish, the child of immigrants who were in the camps, lives ... in Louisiana, and during the run-up to impeachment organised a small Liberal campaign to support Clinton. She seems to take a sort of 'my {president | country}, right or wrong' approach. ...

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Author:	Margaret
Date:	Sat Apr 3 12:00:18 PST 1999

1082 [lbo-talk] Israel's Ambassador to the US states that Bush gave his approval to Israel keeping settlement blocs -- rank: 367

Last week there was a contraversy in Israel when two senior U.S. envoys met ... expansion of Ma'ale Adumim settlement was in violation of a US backed peace plan (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages ... Ambassador to the United States Danny Ayalon, responding Sunday to a controversy surrounding American policy on the Middle East, said that President George W. Bush unequivocally supports Israel's stance that major ... West Bank settlement blocs are to be part of the Jewish state under a future peace treaty." [...] Ayalon said he read the Foreign ...

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Author:	Bryan
Date:	Sun Mar 27 07:40:19 PST 2005

1083 [lbo-talk] Lukashenko & Belarus -- rank: 364

... with you Chris... "The Prague racket" (Subtitle: "Nato is now a device to exert control and extract cash. Those who resist ... s hostility towards Belarus are that Lukashenko is authoritarian and a "dictator". This is an odd charge, given that the losing ... in last September's presidential elections conceded that the incumbent president had won more votes than them. It is also strange ... the west to revile Lukashenko when it courts so assiduously President Putin, whose own election, like all those in Russia since ...

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Author:	Grant Lee
Date:	Mon Apr 28 02:40:54 PDT 2003

1084 [lbo-talk] Talking about anti-Semitic. -- rank: 364

... after 38 years in the Senate, went on to blame President Bush for the war in Iraq. He said U.S ... unfortunately put Israel in “terrible jeopardy.” The Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish civil rights group, had taken Hollings to task for writing that Israel and President Bush’s desire to court Jewish voters were the reasons for the war in Iraq. A Columbia rabbi, Philip Silverstein, said he was “horrified” by ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Sat May 22 11:56:23 PDT 2004

1085 [lbo-talk] the wit & wisdom of Cal Thomas -- rank: 354

... the women in my life would find chadors or burkahs a real nuisance in the Chicago summers. I therefore add to ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Jul 20 18:15:44 PDT 2005

1086 zionism (again) -- rank: 354

... what I objected to originally [was] the thesis that the Jewish > state was founded on a racial identity. You do have to accomplish prodigies of interpretation regarding the word "racial" to evade a point that obvious. (And M. Forstater's quotations are pretty devastating.) But let's imagine a parallel. Suppose a party comes to power in the US (president, both houses of congress, compliant supreme court) representing a ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Fri Jul 27 19:25:50 PDT 2001

1087 [lbo-talk] Hillary steps away from Israel Lobby -- rank: 354

... the Democratic center-right, decided it was necessary to give a bone to the anti-permanent-war/anti-catastrophe wing of ... But I think Michael's take is better. She got a pass. But this surprised me: "close ties with Jewish and pro-Israel activists". I never thought of them as ... Henwood > wrote: > > [wow, is this the pressure of running in a Dem > primary? would she > > rejoin the fold in the general ... Away From Pro-Israel Lobby on > Measure to > > Rein in President > > She hasn't left the fold, and won't. They've given > her > a pass, I'm sure, which t

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Author:	Robert Wrubel
Date:	Sat Oct 13 12:49:23 PDT 2007

1088 [lbo-talk] MAVERICK POPULIST CHOSEN AS POLAND'S DEPUTY LEADER -- rank: 354

... AS POLAND'S DEPUTY LEADER 8/5/2006- Andrzej Lepper, a former pig farmer famous for rabble-rousing rhetoric and populist ... resignation of Poland's Foreign Minister - both Self-Defence and a small right-wing Roman Catholic party, the League of Polish ... of Mr Lepper in government completes an extraordinary transition for a man accused of anti-Semitism and well-known for his ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Thu May 11 18:47:40 PDT 2006

1089 [lbo-talk] Krugman: Follow the Malek -- rank: 354

... 12/follow-the-malek/ Follow the Malek It's just a glancing mention in this Times piece on how Fannie Mae ... influenced people: Fannie's board once included Frederic V. Malek, a longtime friend of the Bush family and a former business partner of the current President Bush. There's a bit more to who Malek is: He was Nixon's ... at his boss's behest -- you see, Nixon believed that a "Jewish cabal" was distorting the economic statistics to make ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Jul 13 07:42:43 PDT 2008

1090 [lbo-talk] something's changing re: Israel -- rank: 354

... did these two misguided professors dare suggest that there was a cabal of die-hard Zionists in the media, in Congress ... lines. Mearsheimer and Walt were shouted down in many quarters a

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Author:	SA
Date:	Sat Mar 14 10:21:03 PDT 2009

1091 U.S. Says Arms Reduction Complicated -- rank: 354

... said Tuesday both the U.S. and Russian leaders want a new nuclear arms reduction agreement finished and ready for signing ... they want this agreement finished,'' Ambassador Alexander Vershbow said at a Moscow news conference. ``As a senior chinovnik (bureaucrat), I understand my marching orders,'' he said ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Wed May 1 00:16:53 PDT 2002

1092 Nader & gays -- rank: 354

... any chance? max Nah, our Thomas Edwards, if he was a Prof would have atached a PhD to his name by now. And his middle initial ... M". He'd start ranting that naMbla=NLGTF!!! He's a good argument for Stalinist re-education/brainwashing camps.) He gets a letter into the San Francisco Chronicle about every ten days or so. Here is a recent one. Michael Pugliese http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin ... the Gore- Lieberman ticket simply because Sen. Joe Lieberman is Jewish. On the other hand, others will vote against the ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Sep 6 00:12:03 PDT 2000

1093 indymedia-copvcia -- rank: 354

... php3?article_id=164591&group=webcast>: -------------------------------- Oops, sorry, that was a typing or grammar error. I meant to ask whether anyone ... of people keep bringing up that website, however I have a hard time really getting very far into the site. I know an anti-semitic jewish doctor, who is the wealthiest person I know, inheriting part of the Pullman trucking fortune, who is a stalinist flavor of communist who pushes that site every time I see him. the 2nd wealthiest person I know, a corporate attorney, class president of Beverly Hills high

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Author:	C P
Date:	Sun Apr 7 20:14:48 PDT 2002

1094 Israeli Rally Demands End to Palestinian Authority -- rank: 354

... JERUSALEM -- Thousands of Israelis gathered in Jerusalem on Monday for a rally to remember a cabinet minister assassinated by Palestinian radicals and demand an end to the Palestinian Authority. They brandished banners calling Palestinian President Yasser Arafat a "murderer" and reading "Arafat invented hijacking," as they massed in ... Zion Square. It was one of the largest demonstrations since a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation erupted last year after peace talks stalled. Right-wing leaders spoke from a stage posted with a picture of Arafat and Osama ...

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Author:	Macdonald Stainsby
Date:	Tue Oct 23 04:40:16 PDT 2001

1095 when is racism not racism? -- rank: 354

... State Colin Powell said Wednesday he would like to attend a U.N. conference against racism but wants references to Israel ... whether anti-Zionist and other objectionable phrases are removed from a conference declaration. "Our participation depends on how some things turn ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Thu Aug 2 12:50:15 PDT 2001