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586 [lbo-talk] you can take the Confederate flag pin off the man, but... -- rank: 543

... said were demeaning and insensitive comments the senator made to a 20-year-old volunteer of Indian descent. At a campaign rally in southwest Virginia on Friday, Allen repeatedly called a volunteer for Democrat James Webb "macaca." During the speech in ... After saying that Webb was raising money in California with a "bunch of Hollywood m

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 08:29:09 PDT 2006

587 [lbo-talk] AP: Turkey claims it's helping Kurdish fighters reach Kobani -- rank: 543

... Policy **** is as deeply incoherent as would be, for example, A Nazi Institute for the Preservation of Jewish Culture* U.S. foreign policy, by definition, is deeply antagonistic ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Oct 24 17:23:10 PDT 2014

588 Thomas Friedman, coddler of Palestinian terrorists? -- rank: 543

A freebie from the WSJ http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/slipsky ... warning. BY SETH LIPSKY Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:01 a.m. "Palestinian terror got tremendous support and encouragement by the ... of eyebrows were raised by the interview, which filled nearly a page of the Journal and ran under the headline "The ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Sat Nov 17 18:28:34 PST 2001

589 Bill Clinton Defines Terrorism -- rank: 543

... in office || > than || > Clinton did in eight years. || || It is a sad fact but the two most progressive presidents during my ... comes || even close to measuring up to them. || || Jim F. || A lucid geopolitical crap player he most certainly was but progressive ... www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20361-2002Feb28.html --------------------------------------- When President Richard M. Nixon's ambassador to Fran

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Sat Mar 2 13:53:32 PST 2002

590 Fwd: Lieberman's holy war against the Bill of Rights -- rank: 540

... freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." >This statement is a defining moment in the 2000 presidential campaign. It is >the ... informing principle of American society. He told his audience, "As a >people, we need to reaffirm our faith and renew the ...

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Author:	radman
Date:	Sun Sep 3 11:16:37 PDT 2000

591 [lbo-talk] UMich Press to continue distributing Pluto -- rank: 540

... faced intense criticism in the last two months for distributing a book on behalf of a British publisher whose sales the Michigan press handles in the ... is highly critical of Israel. And that controversy led to a review of the relationship with the British publisher. But on ... topic of criticism of Israel. The controversy focused attention on a role played by many university presses in the United States ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 06:27:49 PDT 2007

592 [lbo-talk] Living in the shadow of death: gays between fundamentalism and the occupation -- rank: 540

... sent back to where you came from. For Fuad Moussa, a 27-year-old gay man who grew up in Ramallah, these words amounted to a death sentence. Fuad is in imminent danger due to two ... persecuted because he chose to live in Jerusalem with his Jewish partner, Ezra, even though he does not have a permit to be in Israel. The two men met eight ... for the past four have been sharing an apartment in a middleclass Jerusalem neighborhood; they work together in Ezra s plumbing ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Dec 3 01:55:38 PST 2003

593 David Irving loses libel suit (aw!) -- rank: 540

... reputation and was branded an anti-Semite and racist by a High Court judge. Irving sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and ... s High Court. He said their 1994 book branded him a ``Holocaust denier'' and accused him of distorting the truth of ... Nazi Germany. The verdict was greeted in near-silence by a courtroom packed with Holocaust survivors and others. ``The decision proves that David Irving is a falsifier of history,'' said Eldred Tabachnik, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. ``Although the ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Apr 11 13:39:10 PDT 2000

594 [lbo-talk] Soros to fund alternative to AIPAC? -- rank: 540

Financial Times - October 24, 2006 Soros considers backing a new lobby for Palestinian peace deal By Guy Dinmore in ... war with Lebanon's Hizbollah ended after 34 days, but a fierce debate within the American Jewish community over the nature of Israel's relationship with the ... US rages on. It is spurring on efforts to create a new and powerful voice to lobby for peace with the ... Lebanon - is said by friends to be considering support for a new initiative. The move would set up an alternative group that would lobby for a negotiated two-state settlement. Organisers deny that they intend ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 24 11:09:33 PDT 2006

595 [lbo-talk] Israeli chickens come home to roost -- rank: 540

... Small pustules highlight larger rot. Chief of staff Dan Halutz, a narcissistic bully like a mini-Patton, though without the latter's tactical talents, took ... to fight intelligently and effectively has been eroded--not necessarily a bad thing of course -- by a system of graft-ridden procurement that favors expensive weapons systems ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Sat Aug 26 20:34:06 PDT 2006

596 [lbo-talk] Total resolve, not pacifying terrorists -- rank: 540

... resolve, not pacifying terrorists God Almighty gave Israel to the Jewish people through his covenant with Abraham. If Israel fails to ... diplomatic means have proven futile. And it remains certain that a peaceful resolution of this struggle will never, ever, be achieved ... of the heavens and the earth, gave it to the Jewish people through his covenant with Abraham. God entrusted the land ... covenant decision to redeem the world through Abraham and the Jewish people. Thus my stand with Israel and her righ

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sat Aug 12 10:39:39 PDT 2006

597 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [What Does Israel Want? Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, ] -- rank: 540

... Want? Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, 14 July 2006 Imagine a group of high ranking generals who simulated for years Third ... sophisticated weapons in their disposal and enjoy the immunity of a computerized headquarters from which they can direct their war games ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 15 18:39:04 PDT 2006

598 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [anti-allawi-group] The Chomsky vs. Dershowitz debate: both sides were awful! -- rank: 540

... group at yahoogroups.com> > >Dear Friends, > >I just finished watching a TV broadcast of a Nov. 29, 2005 debate >between Noam Chomsky and Alan Dershowitz ... Ku Klux Klan idea of >racial separation. > >They both advocated a Jewish state, in which only Jews are the >sovereign authority, and in which Jews are made a permanent majority >by denying the right of return to millions ... the Klan idea that racial discrimination against non-Jews in a >Jewish state is ok so long as the land ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Sun Dec 4 20:19:33 PST 2005

599 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [anti-allawi-group] The Chomsky vs. Dershowitz debate: both sides were awful! -- rank: 540

... group at yahoogroups.com> Dear Friends, I just finished watching a TV broadcast of a Nov. 29, 2005 debate between Noam Chomsky and Alan Dershowitz ... Ku Klux Klan idea of racial separation. They both advocated a Jewish state, in which only Jews are the sovereign authority, and in which Jews are made a permanent majority by denying the right of return to millions ... the Klan idea that racial discrimination against non-Jews in a Jewish state is ok so long as the land ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Dec 4 18:35:39 PST 2005

600 [lbo-talk] Amalek -- rank: 540

... Fundamentalists to Amalek By Steven I. Weiss March 31, 2006 A prominent Conservative rabbi suggested in a recent Torah commentary that Islamic fundamentalists be classified as "Amalek ... worthy of the name: Amalek," Rabbi Jack Riemer wrote in a sermon that he e-mailed to Conservative rabbis in advance of the Sabbath, which started February 10. Riemer is a widely cited author in Conservative circles. In 1998 his translation of Ecclesiastes was read by President Bill Clinton during the National Prayer Breakfast. Amalek is described ... Egypt. In the Book of Esther, Haman, the mastermind of a

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Author:	Seth Kulick
Date:	Thu Mar 30 11:47:05 PST 2006