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		<title>By: Richard Witty</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Witty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/world/middleeast/15mideast.html?hp&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Israeli Rights Groups Call for War Crimes Inquiry &lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Israeli Rights Groups Call for War Crimes Inquiry </p>
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		<title>By: D.</title>
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		<dc:creator>D.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The American Congress passes a resolution praising Israel&#039;s behavior. The British Parliament hears cries to withdraw the ambassador, stop arms sales, embargo trade, and investigate war crimes. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Who knew there was such &quot;antisemitism&quot; across the Atlantic?&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The American Congress passes a resolution praising Israel&#39;s behavior. The British Parliament hears cries to withdraw the ambassador, stop arms sales, embargo trade, and investigate war crimes. </p>
<p>Who knew there was such &quot;antisemitism&quot; across the Atlantic?</p>
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		<title>By: anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;No resting in peace for Gaza dead&lt;br /&gt;
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GAZA (Reuters) &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Stench, debris and human remains greeted Palestinians in the city of Gaza on Wednesday after an Israeli missile strike at dawn -- but in this case no one died.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A big explosion tore through the increasingly packed Sheikh Redwan cemetery, shattering tombstones and ripping bones and recently buried flesh from the earth.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&quot;The planes have struck even the dead. There is nothing the planes have not hit in the Gaza Strip,&quot; lamented Abu Fayez al-Shurafa, leaning on a cane.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;He moved around the graveyard with others who live nearby, gathering remains, righting fallen grave markers, wincing at the smell. &quot;I was shocked they would dare do this. The flesh of the dead flew in them streets and we are collecting them in bags.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE50D5EP20090114&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No resting in peace for Gaza dead</p>
<p>GAZA (Reuters) </p>
<p>Stench, debris and human remains greeted Palestinians in the city of Gaza on Wednesday after an Israeli missile strike at dawn &#8212; but in this case no one died.</p>
<p>A big explosion tore through the increasingly packed Sheikh Redwan cemetery, shattering tombstones and ripping bones and recently buried flesh from the earth.</p>
<p>&quot;The planes have struck even the dead. There is nothing the planes have not hit in the Gaza Strip,&quot; lamented Abu Fayez al-Shurafa, leaning on a cane.</p>
<p>He moved around the graveyard with others who live nearby, gathering remains, righting fallen grave markers, wincing at the smell. &quot;I was shocked they would dare do this. The flesh of the dead flew in them streets and we are collecting them in bags.&quot;</p>
<p>http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE50D5EP20090114</p>
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		<title>By: citizen</title>
		<link>http://mondoweiss.net/2009/01/the-diplomatic-backlash-begins.html/comment-page-1#comment-38780</link>
		<dc:creator>citizen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;As kraut Truman opined for the memory books, after he had been sold into office by the Zionists, when the classical underdog becomes the&lt;br /&gt;
uber hund,  nothing is sacred except the uber hund. All is allowed. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Nothing has changed. As with Truman, the Arabs had no vote or real effective money in 1948 to assure goyische kopf titular American leaders, and now, with Obama--he will copy Bush, Clinton. All hail the Israel plantation.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As kraut Truman opined for the memory books, after he had been sold into office by the Zionists, when the classical underdog becomes the<br />
uber hund,  nothing is sacred except the uber hund. All is allowed. </p>
<p>Nothing has changed. As with Truman, the Arabs had no vote or real effective money in 1948 to assure goyische kopf titular American leaders, and now, with Obama&#8211;he will copy Bush, Clinton. All hail the Israel plantation.</p>
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		<title>By: Arie Brand</title>
		<link>http://mondoweiss.net/2009/01/the-diplomatic-backlash-begins.html/comment-page-1#comment-38781</link>
		<dc:creator>Arie Brand</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned on a different blog I recently heard the former Dutch Foreign Minister and erstwhile European Commissioner for Foreign Relations, Hans van den Broek, complain in a Dutch TV-program  about Israel&#039;s consistent violation of international law.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;He was of the opinion that Israel had gotten away with this because there never had been any effective sanctions from the West. He hinted that for Europe such sanctions could be found in the numerous treaties between Israel and the EU which have given Israel a privileged status thus far.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I mentioned on a different blog I recently heard the former Dutch Foreign Minister and erstwhile European Commissioner for Foreign Relations, Hans van den Broek, complain in a Dutch TV-program  about Israel&#39;s consistent violation of international law.</p>
<p>He was of the opinion that Israel had gotten away with this because there never had been any effective sanctions from the West. He hinted that for Europe such sanctions could be found in the numerous treaties between Israel and the EU which have given Israel a privileged status thus far.</p>
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		<title>By: Joachim Martillo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joachim Martillo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I put up a blog entry on &lt;a href=&quot;http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2009/01/palestinian-foreign-policy-realism.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Palestinian Foreign Policy Realism&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It was originally a comment on Professor Walt&#039;s blog entry &lt;a href=&quot;http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/node/15143&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;An unconvincing defense&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I put up a blog entry on <a href="http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2009/01/palestinian-foreign-policy-realism.html" rel="nofollow">Palestinian Foreign Policy Realism</a>.</p>
<p>It was originally a comment on Professor Walt&#39;s blog entry <a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/node/15143" rel="nofollow">An unconvincing defense</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: delia</title>
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		<dc:creator>delia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;So all the democracies that the US refuses to recognize--Venezuela, Bolivia, Palestina--are ganging up on our faux democracies, mine included.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Can anyone still be unconvinced that we&#039;re on the wrong side of history?&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So all the democracies that the US refuses to recognize&#8211;Venezuela, Bolivia, Palestina&#8211;are ganging up on our faux democracies, mine included.</p>
<p>Can anyone still be unconvinced that we&#39;re on the wrong side of history?</p>
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		<title>By: MRW.</title>
		<link>http://mondoweiss.net/2009/01/the-diplomatic-backlash-begins.html/comment-page-1#comment-38784</link>
		<dc:creator>MRW.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, you gotta read this screed by David Horowitz. Here are the last two grafs: &lt;blockquote&gt;Their allies in the West are either stupendously ignorant or morally blind. Here is the self-revealing declaration of the Associate Director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Wisconsin (both an ignoramus and a moral defective): &lt;i&gt;“The state terror unleashed from the skies and on the ground against the Gaza Strip as we speak has nothing to do with Hamas. It has nothing to do with ‘Terror.’ It has nothing to do with the long-term ‘security’ of the Jewish State….” What it has to do with is the evil Jews and their evil American supporters: “Strip away the clichés and the vacuous newspeak blaring out across the servile media and its pathetic corps of voluntary state servants in the Western world and what you will find is the naked desire for hegemony; for power over the weak and dominion over the world’s wealth. Worse yet you will find that the selfishness, the hatred and indifference, the racism and bigotry, the egotism and hedonism…the callousness with which we indulge in them all are endemic to our very culture; thriving here like flies on a corpse.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The author of this repulsive, traitorous statement, Wisconsin Professor Jennifer Lowenstein, is herself a Jew, but obviously a self-hating member of the tribe, the likes of which have a sordid lineage going back to the “capos” who shoveled their companions into the ovens and collaborated with their murderers. Like many of her political comrades in the secular and religious Left, she has joined the forces of Islamic barbarism that are ranged against the civilized people of America and Israel. And she is only one of many. In the midst of the global war that radical Islam has declared on the West, the conflict in Gaza has revealed the presence of a fifth column in the West so detached from its own communities and civilized values that it now constitutes a clear and present danger to our survival.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=ED3F303D-47FE-424E-A236-E38064C655B9&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, you gotta read this screed by David Horowitz. Here are the last two grafs:<br />
<blockquote>Their allies in the West are either stupendously ignorant or morally blind. Here is the self-revealing declaration of the Associate Director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Wisconsin (both an ignoramus and a moral defective): <i>“The state terror unleashed from the skies and on the ground against the Gaza Strip as we speak has nothing to do with Hamas. It has nothing to do with ‘Terror.’ It has nothing to do with the long-term ‘security’ of the Jewish State….” What it has to do with is the evil Jews and their evil American supporters: “Strip away the clichés and the vacuous newspeak blaring out across the servile media and its pathetic corps of voluntary state servants in the Western world and what you will find is the naked desire for hegemony; for power over the weak and dominion over the world’s wealth. Worse yet you will find that the selfishness, the hatred and indifference, the racism and bigotry, the egotism and hedonism…the callousness with which we indulge in them all are endemic to our very culture; thriving here like flies on a corpse.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The author of this repulsive, traitorous statement, Wisconsin Professor Jennifer Lowenstein, is herself a Jew, but obviously a self-hating member of the tribe, the likes of which have a sordid lineage going back to the “capos” who shoveled their companions into the ovens and collaborated with their murderers. Like many of her political comrades in the secular and religious Left, she has joined the forces of Islamic barbarism that are ranged against the civilized people of America and Israel. And she is only one of many. In the midst of the global war that radical Islam has declared on the West, the conflict in Gaza has revealed the presence of a fifth column in the West so detached from its own communities and civilized values that it now constitutes a clear and present danger to our survival.<br />
<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=ED3F303D-47FE-424E-A236-E38064C655B9br">link to frontpagemag.com</a><br /> /></p>
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		<title>By: S Kneedler</title>
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		<dc:creator>S Kneedler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Citizen, thanks for reminding us all of Truman&#039;s cynical betrayal of the Palestinian people.  Harry Truman seemed to be proud of his lack of &quot;democratic,&quot; liberal principle, for he bragged about the vote-grabbing nature of his machiavellian corruption in creating Israel several times:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;1. &quot;In all my political experience I don&#039;t ever recall the Arab vote swinging a close election.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/sep/29/politics&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;2. &#039;In a Nov. 10, 1945 meeting with American diplomats brought in from their posts in the Middle East to urge Truman not to heed Zionist urgings, Truman had bluntly explained his motivation: &lt;br /&gt;
&quot;I&#039;m sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism: I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents.&quot;&#039;  &lt;br /&gt;
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0591/9105017.htm&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;3. When the State Department, the Pentagon, and all major career diplomats in the US stood against support for establishment of Israel, President Truman explained his decision to his cabinet (privately) very clearly as relating to the lobby and voting adding that “I have no Arab constituency” (Truman papers and many history books). The US went on to twist the arms of other countries to support partition and imposing of a Jewish state on Palestine. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/iraq-pal-israel.html&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Citizen, thanks for reminding us all of Truman&#39;s cynical betrayal of the Palestinian people.  Harry Truman seemed to be proud of his lack of &quot;democratic,&quot; liberal principle, for he bragged about the vote-grabbing nature of his machiavellian corruption in creating Israel several times:</p>
<p>1. &quot;In all my political experience I don&#39;t ever recall the Arab vote swinging a close election.&quot; <br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/sep/29/politics/p">link to guardian.co.uk</a></p>
<p>2. &#39;In a Nov. 10, 1945 meeting with American diplomats brought in from their posts in the Middle East to urge Truman not to heed Zionist urgings, Truman had bluntly explained his motivation: <br />
&quot;I&#39;m sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism: I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents.&quot;&#39;  <br />
<a href="http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0591/9105017.htm/p">link to washington-report.org</a></p>
<p>3. When the State Department, the Pentagon, and all major career diplomats in the US stood against support for establishment of Israel, President Truman explained his decision to his cabinet (privately) very clearly as relating to the lobby and voting adding that “I have no Arab constituency” (Truman papers and many history books). The US went on to twist the arms of other countries to support partition and imposing of a Jewish state on Palestine. </p>
<p>http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/iraq-pal-israel.html</p>
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		<title>By: morris</title>
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		<dc:creator>morris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The contrast between the US and Europe in voicing apposition is huge. Americans in power are required to shut up or support. But don&#039;t be fooled by European gestures, they are hitherto, gestures. Just look at the allies troops in Aghanistan, that is the same war as is being fought in Gaza and Iraq, and was fought in Lebanon. It is against Islam. Jewish power is not at all dented, and is rather absolute. I don&#039;t think it is any good at all for the jews but that is another story. Yet I wouldn&#039;t want to predict the future. Most definitely the people everywhere are aghast.  But EU time out don&#039;t mean much, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The contrast between the US and Europe in voicing apposition is huge. Americans in power are required to shut up or support. But don&#39;t be fooled by European gestures, they are hitherto, gestures. Just look at the allies troops in Aghanistan, that is the same war as is being fought in Gaza and Iraq, and was fought in Lebanon. It is against Islam. Jewish power is not at all dented, and is rather absolute. I don&#39;t think it is any good at all for the jews but that is another story. Yet I wouldn&#39;t want to predict the future. Most definitely the people everywhere are aghast.  But EU time out don&#39;t mean much, unfortunately.</p>
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