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76 [lbo-talk] Zbig proposes shooting down Israeli aircraft attacking Iran (dream on) -- rank: 416

... aggressive can Obama be in insisting to the Israelis that a military strike might be in America s worst interest? ZB ... to be serious about denying them that right. That means a denial where you aren t just saying it. If they ... not. No one wishes for this but it could be a Liberty in reverse. [Israeli jet fighters and torpedo boats attacked ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed Sep 23 10:48:52 PDT 2009

77 [lbo-talk] Juan on Ahmadinejad's Lunatic Anti-Semitism -- rank: 598

... on 'Jerusalem Day' Juan Cole Note: Revised 9/21/09 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a sermon on Friday for "Jerusalem Day" that is full of ... crackpot anti-Semitism that can be imagined. Anti-Semitism as a form of bigotry typically ascribes the most abject motives and ... did not post extended Open Source Center translation. Here are a couple of paragraphs, below. But note that the the first ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Mon Sep 21 09:41:20 PDT 2009

78 [lbo-talk] Promise Keepers Re-Launched -- rank: 503

... to make men into warriors for Christ is back, with a huge rally in Colorado. But this time it's all ... throughout the US, drew upwards of 50,000 men for a weekend of preaching, teaching, singing, praying and swaying, and tears ...

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Author:	Steven Robinson
Date:	Wed Aug 5 22:54:00 PDT 2009

79 [lbo-talk] Q & A on the Iran Crisis from Campaign for Peace and Democracy -- rank: 793

... the New York-based Campaign for Peace and Democracy circulated a Question and Answer on the Iran Crisis. The text is ... elections in Iran, the Campaign for Peace and Democracy issued a statement ( http://www.cpdweb.org/statements/1013/stmt.shtml) expressing ...

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Author:	Joanne Landy
Date:	Tue Jul 7 14:08:42 PDT 2009

80 [lbo-talk] Heil Ahmadinejad, Foe of Imperialism -- rank: 410

... 23 issue of the anti-fascist magazine blick nach rechts ( A look to the right ), Anton Maegerle notes that European neo ... have expressed their solidarity with the antisemitic and anti-Zionist President in Tehran. Among them is the fugitive Swiss Holocaust denier ... Box 19395/7161, Tehran, Hearty congratulation to your reelection, Mr. President! rejoiced the Deutsche Volksunion (DVU) under its leader Matthias Faust ... Iranian people, says the DVU, has decided in favor of a man of the people. Ahmadinejad is acclaimed by the DVU ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Sun Jun 28 10:33:19 PDT 2009

81 [lbo-talk] Doctors demand Yoram Blachar resign as ethics chief over Israeli torture -- rank: 484

... torture-yoram-blachar-resign Israeli doctors perform heart surgery on a baby from Gaza in 2006. Photograph: Yonathan Weitzman/Reuters **** **More than 700 doctors from 43 countries have written a letter of protest to their governing ethical body, the World Medical Association, alleging that its recently appointed Israeli president has turned a blind eye to the involvement of medical staff in torture ... answer charges that some Israeli doctors condone or collaborate with a regime that uses torture against Palestinian prisoners. As long ago ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Mon Jun 22 07:46:03 PDT 2009

82 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 518

... Maybe so, but so what? Iran is to some degree a democracy and Saudia >Arabia is a repressive hellhole. What does this have to do with the ... that many many Iranians are embarrassed by their clown of a >president? > >Doug and, btw1, about Iranian paranoia re the West. It has a long tradition (that isn't unfounded but is something that ... My Uncle Napolean_. btw2, Iran has the region's largest Jewish minority -- 30k and dwindling, iirc. This means that Jewish ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Mon Jun 22 05:26:08 PDT 2009

83 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 212

... re even aware of it. Actually, those > who deny the Jewish holocaust in Europe are far more marginal and > extreme than ... how that's relevant to how Iranians feel about their president being a Holocaust denier. It's one thing to deny your own ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 21 18:29:54 PDT 2009

84 [lbo-talk] The demise of Pakistan is inevitable -- rank: 472

... hatred for India and history of > injustice > means Pakistan is a victim of the divisive logic that > created it > > Kapil Komireddi ... Taliban is an illusion. The > world may > view it as a battle for Pakistan's soul, but the g

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Author:	ken hanly
Date:	Sun Jun 21 12:13:37 PDT 2009

85 [lbo-talk] The demise of Pakistan is inevitable -- rank: 472

... hatred for India and history of injustice means Pakistan is a victim of the divisive logic that created it Kapil Komireddi ... Taliban is an illusion. The world may view it as a battle for Pakistan's soul, but the generals in Rawalpindi ... the world by threatening imminent collapse is vintage Pakistan. Recently, President Asif Ali Zardari told Der Spiegel that the safety of ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Sun Jun 21 06:03:18 PDT 2009

86 [lbo-talk] AP publishes a 'censored' copy of the Obama Cairo speech transcript without notification ... -- rank: 648

Am I making a big deal out of nothing? When examining the AP transcript of President Obama's speech in Cairo yesterday, I was very confused ... they transcribe about Israel/Palestine (only the part about the Jewish Holocaust and Holocaust deniers) from the speech: *"Now, the second ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jun 4 09:12:07 PDT 2009

87 [lbo-talk] BHO alarming Zionists -- rank: 574

... Ben Smith June 1, 2009 08:05 PM EST As President Barack Obama prepares to depart for his first trip to ... we were pressuring the Iranians to eliminate the potential of a nuclear threat from Iran, and less time pressuring our allies ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 1 17:44:06 PDT 2009

88 [lbo-talk] Zionists persecuting UCSB prof -- rank: 515

... ve got some differences with him on "globalization," he's a good guy and a serious scholar. This is outrageous. I've contacted him to ... http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/04/23/ucsb Crossing a Line April 23, 2009 Everyone involved in the dispute over William I. Robinson talks about lines being crossed. A tenured professor of sociology at the University of California at ... freedom by investigating him. His critics say that he crossed a line of professionalism by sending e- mail to all of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 23 08:30:35 PDT 2009

89 [lbo-talk] Cohen: A serious peace plan from a serious fraction of the RC -- rank: 654

... The Fierce Urgency of Peace By ROGER COHEN Pressure on President Obama to recast the failed American approach to Israel-Palestine ... former senior officials whose counsel he respects. Following up on a letter dated Nov. 6, 2008, that was handed to Obama late last year by Paul Volcker, now a senior economic adviser to the president, these foreign policy mandarins have concluded a "Bipartisan Statement on U.S. Middle East Peacemaking" that should ... administration, they call for intense American mediation in pursuit of a two-state solution, "a more pragmatic approach toward Hamas," ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Mar 26 02:59:37 PDT 2009

90 [lbo-talk] something's changing re: Israel -- rank: 657

... the LAT? This is way beyond the normal pale for a newspaper of record. Have they done this before and I ... Angeles Times Zionism is the Problem The Zionist ideal of a Jewish state is keeping Israelis and Palestinians from living in peace ... but in 1944, six years after Kristallnacht, Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, felt comfortab

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Mon Mar 16 17:04:02 PDT 2009