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1126 [lbo-talk] Survey: Israel Yet to Grasp Concept of Democracy -- rank: 305

... Concept of Democracy by Mazal Mualem More than half the Jewish population of Israel - 53 percent - is opposed to full equal rights for Israeli Arabs, according to a survey conducted last month by the Israel Democracy Institute. The ... will be conducted every year, is that Israel is basically a democracy in form more than in substance, and that it ...

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Author:	cuito61 at onebox.com
Date:	Fri May 16 14:15:29 PDT 2003

1127 [lbo-talk] signs of change -- rank: 305

... abstain from anything liable to arouse the anger of the Jewish and the Fundamentalist-Christian lobbies. But lo and behold, Washington ... official, support to the Nusseibeh-Ayalon and the Geneva Initiatives. President Bush expressed relatively strong disapproval of Sharons acts, side by ... with his routine condemnation of the Palestinians. He also deducted a symbolic sum from the American loan guaranties given to Israel ... we are not pampered even small American gestures can mean a lot. For Sharon, his American connection is the jewel in ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Mon Dec 1 14:08:49 PST 2003

1128 The Texas populist take on the tax cut -- rank: 305

... you have money in the stock market you > might have a > stake in eliminating the dividend tax, the centerpiece of the > president's tax cut -- $300 billion over 10 years? (You > probably ... percent of > the population took 86 percent. These people need a tax cu

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Jan 10 09:17:10 PST 2003

1129 Homeland Security in Texas -- rank: 293

Axis alert! [excpt] Dewhurst is also a former vice president of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a pro-Israeli think tank whose board includes Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA director Admiral James Woolsey. http ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Wed Mar 13 00:29:54 PST 2002

1130 75 professors who deserve your complete support -- rank: 293

... s ridiculous,'' said Paul Gottesman, who recently stepped down as >president of the zionist Jewish Law Student Association at Harvard. ''The >people who are involved ... to say this fellow won't be representing me in a court of law "your honor even though my client isn't jewish these charges are a blatant attack against Israel and if i may insinuate anti ...

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Author:	Micheal Ellis
Date:	Tue May 7 06:58:29 PDT 2002

1131 [lbo-talk] Dads say the damnedest things -- rank: 283

... 13/arab-american-group-decries-emanuels-fathers-smear/ The Caucus - A New York Times Blog November 13, 2008, 3:47 pm ... Father's `Arab' Comments By Sarah Wheaton Representative Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, called the president of an Arab-American group today to apologize for comments ... on U.S.-Israeli relations. "Obviously he'll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn't he? What is ... to English-language reports in The Jerusalem Post and The Jewish Telegraphic Agency. <end excerpt> Full at: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Nov 13 23:04:37 PST 2008

1132 [lbo-talk] Re: the unmentionables -- rank: 280

"...anybody who thinks that a Democrat as President, who does not address the Israel Question -and we already ... the US is only fooling themselves..." how can we expect a spineless democrat to address this issue when most of the ... from any other lobby, and any one who questions israeli-jewish power in and over congress is guilty of a) anti-Semitism, or b)holocaust denial, or c) self hating ...

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Wed Mar 24 17:35:32 PST 2004

1133 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 280

... busting feminists, mincing gays, >> selfish >> trade unionists, tree huggers, rich Jewish eggheads and other >> "elitists", >> illegal immigrants, athiests, gun control freaks ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Sat Jun 28 12:00:19 PDT 2008

1134 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] Gar Lipow: Local action in protest of Israeli occupation is crucial -- rank: 280

... at gmail.com> wrote: > Kudos to our own Gar on a nice introduction: > > "As former President Jimmy Carter and South African anti-apartheid leader Archbishop Desmond ... are well-documented by such groups as Amnesty International and Jewish Voices for Peace. > >

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Thu May 10 10:17:06 PDT 2012

1135 [lbo-talk] Gaza and anti-Semitism -- rank: 280

... Paris demonstration (80,000) and he noted that "Mohamed Mechmache, president of the group AC-Le-Feu [which is supposed to ... which could distort the demonstration." [http://tinyurl.com/8pjswo] > During a demonstration earlier this month, the Dutch Socialist Party > MP Harry van Bommel called for a new intifada against Israel. Of > course he has every right ... Hamas, Hamas, all Jews to the gas" > and similar anti-Jewish slogans. I've never seen anyone claim evidence that van ... Much of this piece seems redolent of anti-guy-with-a-sign-ism. SA

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Author:	SA
Date:	Thu Jan 15 03:23:38 PST 2009

1136 The Buzz -- rank: 280

... in Moscow and 12 other Russian cities on Thursday, Russian Jewish Congress President Yevgeny Satanovsky said at a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday. Two actions will begin ... in front of the Israeli Embassy. The participants will form a ring and light candles to commemorate the victims of the ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Thu Apr 25 07:11:28 PDT 2002

1137 Bobby Fischer on 9/11 -- rank: 280

... for the generals, you know, but in the end the >president of the so-called democracy won. I'm hoping for some kind >of a Seven Days in May scenario in the lakes of Ontario ... synagogues, arrest all the Jews, execute hundreds of thousands of >Jewish ringleaders, and, you know, apologize to the Arabs by killing ... that bandit state, you know, Israel. >I'm hoping for a totally new world. I'd say he's a raving anti-semite. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 12:08:19 PST 2002

1138 [lbo-talk] Gar Lipow: Local action in protest of Israeli occupation is crucial -- rank: 253

Kudos to our own Gar on a nice introduction: "As former President Jimmy Carter and South African anti-apartheid leader Archbishop Desmond ... are well-documented by such groups as Amnesty International and Jewish Voices for Peace. "In response to a universal call from Palestinian civil society, the international commun

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Thu May 10 00:50:56 PDT 2012

1139 [lbo-talk] China, Israel agree to set up Confucius Institute -- rank: 253

... China and Israel signed an agreement on Monday to establish a Confucius Institute at the Tel Aviv University (TAU). The institute ... November, will be the first of its kind in the Jewish nation. Jointly established by Office of Chinese Language Council International of China and TAU, the Confucius Institute is a non-profit educational organization, and will provide non-degree Chinese ... Teachers are from the TAU. Addressing the signing ceremony, TAU President Itamar Rabinovich said "the Israeli public are eagerly hoping that ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed May 30 10:12:56 PDT 2007

1140 The Evil of Two Lessers? -- rank: 253

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Nathan Newman wrote: > Quite true. And to the extent that Lieberman shares Clinton's general > policies (which he does), voting for Lieberman is like getting Clinton > while condemning him - the ultimate having your cake and eating it too. > Or so Gore hopes at least :) That's ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Aug 8 07:56:31 PDT 2000