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46 [lbo-talk] more Kovel -- rank: 814

... list some idea of why it is important to write a letter of support for him. CG http://www.joelkovel.org/zionism.html Tikkun Sept/Oct 2002 Jewish Denial Zionism's Bad Conscience Joel Kovel Let me begin ... associated with suffering and high moral purpose, become identified with a nation-state loathed around the world for its oppressiveness toward a subjugated indigenous people? Why have a substantial majority of Jews chosen to flaunt world opinion in order to rally about a state that essentially has turned its occupied lands into ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Feb 20 10:41:13 PST 2009

47 More horse's mouth -- rank: 814

... Perhaps you won't mind if today I just share a few thoughts with you about where our people are now ... our people are simply remaining as spectators, refusing to lift a hand against the enemies who certainly will destroy us if ...

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Author:	nurev at Kreative.net
Date:	Fri Jun 5 12:10:16 PDT 1998

48 [lbo-talk] some (sort of) encouraging mideast gossip -- rank: 811

The expected appointment of a special envoy to breathe new life into Israeli-Palestinian negotiations could split the pro-Israel center while pleasing the Jewish left and outraging the right. The schism could be particularly deep if, as was widely reported this week, President Barack Obama appoints former Sen. George Mitchell to the job. Some Jewish leaders say the very qualities that may appeal to the ...

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Author:	Matthias Wasser
Date:	Wed Jan 21 12:43:10 PST 2009

49 [lbo-talk] Ethnocratic Politics in Israel (by Oren Yiftachel) -- rank: 811

... power of the Land Authority in dealing with the non-Jewish threat to our lands.[1] Lieberman's words clearly proposed a forceful separation of Palestinian-Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel. E

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 17 10:08:43 PDT 2003

50 [lbo-talk] The Apostate: A Zionist politician loses faith in the future (The New Yorker ... -- rank: 808

Letter from Jerusalem The Apostate A Zionist politician loses faith in the future. by David Remnick ... regard of Israelis is built, in no small part, around a sense of sang-froid, and yet few would deny that ... highway, and numerous towns, mainly in the south; Hezbollah, from a network of guerrilla installations and

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sat Jul 28 06:54:13 PDT 2007

51 [lbo-talk] Stratfor on President Kerry's Iraq imperial strategy -- rank: 805

THE STRATFOR WEEKLY 15 April 2004 Bush's Crisis: Articulating a Strategy in Iraq and the Wider War Summary President George W. Bush's press conference on Tuesday evening was fascinating in its generation of a new core justification for the Iraq campaign: building a democratic Iraq. It is unclear why Bush would find this a compelling justification for the invasion, but it is more unclear ... unconvincing arguments for its Iraq policy, rather than putting forward a crisp, strategic and -- above all -- real justification. Analysis It ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Apr 15 19:52:44 PDT 2004

52 [lbo-talk] cleansing reality of its content -- rank: 802

... you render his argument: > On the other hand, we have a new class of political elites who have > little contact with ... farm. They traffic in ideas and see the world as a vast > landscape of intellectual projection. Unconstrained by even the > most ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 23 08:35:41 PDT 2008

53 Reflections on Zionism From a Dissident Jew -- rank: 799

... at mindspring.com> >Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Reflections on Zionism From a Dissident Jew >Sender: worker-brc-news at lists.tao.ca ... htm > >ZNet Commentary > >September 5, 2001 > >Reflections on Zionism From a Dissident Jew > >By Tim Wise <tjwise at mindspring.com> > >So ... longstanding unwillingness to deal with the legacy of racism >on a global scale, the official reason is more >circumscribed. Namely, the ... Israeli treatment of >Palestinians, and Zionism itself: the ideology of Jewish >nation

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Sep 5 08:37:22 PDT 2001

54 Norman Finkelstein & Israel's Ties with Germany -- rank: 799

Finkelstein has a web page with a number of links at http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/default.htm ... his German critics as follows: Conjuring Conspiracies or Breaking Taboos? A reply to my critics in Germany by Norman G. Finkelstein ... my critics is that in The Holocaust Industry I contrive a conspiracy theory that fosters anti-Semitism. Before addressing this objection directly, I would want to make a preliminary observation. Although the explanatory value of conspiracy theories is ... believe otherwise is no less naive than to believe that a vast conspiracy manipulates worldly affairs. Consider the important recent ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Sun Mar 4 15:39:13 PST 2001

55 [lbo-talk] Ran HaCohen: The Abuse of Anti-Semitism -- rank: 799

... of "Anti-Semitism" by Ran HaCohen The eve of the Jewish New Year is an excellent occasion for what Jewish tradition calls Kheshbon Nefesh, or soul-searching on so-called ... which has now become the single most important element of Jewish identity. Jews may believe in God or not, eat pork ... all united by their unlimited belief in anti-semitism. When a Palestinian kills innocent Israeli civilians, it's anti-semitism. When ... other countries on the globe are anti-semitic. Even when a pregnant Palestinian woman is stopped at an Israeli check-point ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sat Oct 4 23:59:19 PDT 2003

56 [lbo-talk] According to a McLaughlin Poll, A plurality of Jewish voters would consider someone else for President -- rank: 799

First, does a McLaughlin Poll usually have veracity? If so, how does this ... 2008 exit polls, Barack Obama won 78% to 21% among Jewish voters. Now, in the second year of Obama s presidency ... majority of voters (52%) disapproves of the Obama Administration supporting a plan to recognize a Palestinian state within two years. The majority of voters (64 ... campaign of terror to destroy Israel if they were given a Palestinian state, while only 19% say they would live peacefully ...

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Author:	bryan atinsky
Date:	Sat May 22 13:26:49 PDT 2010

57 [lbo-talk] The weird men behind Bush's war -- rank: 799

... shouldn't post this whole thing but, hey, there's a war on. From the New Statesman:] The weird men behind ... the Bush administration's close alliance with Ariel Sharon. Further, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney are not genuine "Texas oil men" but career politicians ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Fri Apr 4 12:24:56 PST 2003

58 [lbo-talk] For use against the Israel Lobby -- rank: 799

... owned television. Its elaborate 1940s costumes and European locations are a far cry from the typical Iranian TV fare of scarf ... thing about the wildly popular show is that it is a heart-wrenching tale of European Jews during World War II. The hour-long drama, "Zero Degree Turn," centers on a love story between an Iranian-Palestinian Muslim man and a French Jewish woman. Over the course of the 22 episodes, the hero ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Sat Sep 8 09:31:12 PDT 2007

59 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, July 25, 2006 -- rank: 796

... Lebanon 11) Israeli civil rights group challenges Halutz 12) Hezbollah a tough foe for Israeli military 13) Nasrallah's Game 14 ... Fighting Could Harden World's Iran Stance Summary: Today is a national call-in day in support of the Kucinich Immediate ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Tue Jul 25 10:20:41 PDT 2006

60 [lbo-talk] Jewish Exodus from the Third World -- rank: 793

There may be a minor literary genre in the making: Jewish Exodus from the Third World. -- Yoshie <http://www.nytimes.com ... the Alexandria harbor "Take us back to Cairo." It's a sad moment, but one would be forgiven for finding it ... least by the ascent of Lucette, their youngest daughter, as a prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter, they presumably enjoy success ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Aug 12 05:24:55 PDT 2007