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	<title>will     to     truth</title>
	<link>http://www.willtotruth.com</link>
	<description>the will to see it, hear it, speak it</description>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s Settlements Entail the Destruction of an Independent Palestinian State</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/08/02/israels-settlements-entail-the-destruction-of-an-independent-palestinian-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/08/02/israels-settlements-entail-the-destruction-of-an-independent-palestinian-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[annapolis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Putting aside every other issue, Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank <em>alone</em> is sufficient to destroy the possibility of a viable Palestinian State (i.e, a politically independent entity with autonomous control over its borders, its resources and the movement of its people.). Since 1967 and its victory in the Six Day War, Israel has developed the public policies and policing strategies to ensure a steady and incremental appropriation of Palestinian lands and resources while also severely restricting Palestinian rights and freedoms. These policies and strategies continue more or less unabated even during so-called peace negotiations such as the current talks initiated at Annapolis in November, 2007.]]></description>
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		<title>When the Tough Decide to Become Diplomatic</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/07/01/when-the-tough-decide-to-become-diplomatic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/07/01/when-the-tough-decide-to-become-diplomatic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why did Israel shift from a tough line to diplomacy? There were no doubt many electoral considerations internal to Israel. But the real reason is that the Israelis found that they were unable militarily to bring Palestinian shelling of Israeli towns to an end. And everyone was drawing conclusions from this. Abbas reopened negotiations with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama&#8217;s Presidency</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/06/19/barack-obamas-presidency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/06/19/barack-obamas-presidency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest unknown is how far he will go to dismantle the quasi-police state structures that the Bush regime has instituted under the umbrella of a war against terrorism. This involves far more than appointing better judges. It means a radical revising of both legislation and executive policies and exposing the ultra-secret rules and practices to the light of day. Much can be done, as we know from what was accomplished in the 1970s, reining in the CIA and the FBI. But the situation is worse now and requires more. History may well judge Obama most of all on what he does in this domain. Up to now, he has been quite silent about this arena.]]></description>
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		<title>Israel and Hamas ceasefire begins</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/06/19/israel-and-hamas-ceasefire-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/06/19/israel-and-hamas-ceasefire-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has begun, despite a last-minute flurry of cross-border attacks. 
The truce is designed to halt Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip, and to stop missiles being fired from Gaza into southern Israel. 
If it holds, Israel will ease its blockade on Gaza and there may be further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Authority Question</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/06/15/the-authority-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>transcript: question authority. including those who told you to ... question ... authority.</strong> ]]></description>
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		<title>Tell the Truth &#8212; Mos Def - Immortal Technique - Eminem</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/06/15/tell-the-truth-mos-def-immortal-technique-eminem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/06/15/tell-the-truth-mos-def-immortal-technique-eminem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell the Truth, Mos Def, Immortal Technique, Eminem]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Make the Desert Bloom</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/06/07/dont-make-the-desert-bloom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/06/07/dont-make-the-desert-bloom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Making the desert bloom”, a cornerstone of the early Zionist ideal, turns out not to have been such a smart idea.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Withdraws Academic Grants to Palestinians</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/31/us-withdraws-academic-grants-to-palestinians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/31/us-withdraws-academic-grants-to-palestinians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<blockquote><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/world/middleeast/30gaza.html?ex=1212811200&#038;en=1a304336737c18a9&#038;ei=5070&#038;emc=eta1">Ethan Bronner reports for the NY Times</a> about the newest outrage resulting from US supported Israeli control of Gaza. We all know of the continuing depredations being perpetrated against Palestinians on a daily basis, the death and injuries, the almost complete control of most aspects of daily life. This new insult arises seamlessly from this control and is ominous because the canceling of scholarly exchange goes to the heart of academic freedom further eroding the idea that Israel has any interest in fostering Palestinian civic society. Whether by intent or casual indifference, Israel is alienating those who would most likely be needed and most open to establishing a stable peace in the region. Such impeding of Palestinian intellectual activity (and development) not only impoverishes Palestinian society but adds to the hallowing-out of Israel’s moral and intellectual culture. This is, unfortunately, of a piece with the recent banning of Norman Finklestein, reported on here, and the increasingly hostile attitude towards alternative/dissident positions in Israel as exemplified by the harassment of Ilan Pappe’ and the late Tanya Rheinhart, among others. As Americans we need to ask ourselves what is ultimately more worthwhile, funding the Israeli military to oppress Palestinians or funding educational exchanges that almost necessarily foster greater understanding cross-culturally. The obvious contradiction of US funding being used to stop US funding, besides the dark humor of the self-erasing nature of US actions, should raise serious concerns about US policy in the region.</blockquote>

<strong>by Rob Lipton - 05/30/08 - more at <a href="http://www.muzzlewatch.com/?p=369">MuzzleWatch</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>More on Finkelstein&#8217;s 10 Year Ban from Entering Israel - MuzzleWatch</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/29/more-on-finkelsteins-10-year-ban-from-entering-israel-muzzlewatch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/29/more-on-finkelsteins-10-year-ban-from-entering-israel-muzzlewatch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 23:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is pretty shocking stuff. It’s particularly surreal, as Haaretz points out, because as a Jew with no criminal record, Finkelstein would be eligible to be an Israeli citizen. And then what? Glenn Greenwald over at Salon has a very thorough analysis of the entire story: he interviewed Finkelstein and his nemesis, Alan Dershowitz, who, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George W Bush Authorized 911 Attacks Says Government Insider</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/25/george-w-bush-authorized-911-attacks-says-government-insider/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/25/george-w-bush-authorized-911-attacks-says-government-insider/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 17:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our case is alleging that Bush and his puppets Rice and Cheney and Mueller and Rumsfeld and so forth, Tenet, were all involved not only in aiding and abetting and allowing 9/11 to happen but in actually ordering it to happen. Bush personally ordered it to happen. We have some very incriminating documents as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Denies Entry to High-Profile Critic Norman Finkelstein</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/24/israel-denies-entry-to-high-profile-critic-norman-finkelstein/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/24/israel-denies-entry-to-high-profile-critic-norman-finkelstein/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 03:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shin Bet said Finkelstein &#8220;is not permitted to enter Israel because of suspicions involving hostile elements in Lebanon,&#8221; and because he &#8220;did not give a full accounting to interrogators with regard to these suspicions.&#8221;
However, in e-mail and phone interviews with Haaretz after leaving Israel for Amsterdam, Finkelstein said, &#8220;I did my best to provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obvious and the Speculative</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/24/the-obvious-and-the-speculative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 20:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The obvious interpretation as to why the U.S. government isn't demanding removal <em>and</em> why Israel's government is not actually removing settlements: Both are actively working <strong>against</strong> the establishment of a Palestinian State while flapping their lips in favour of this proposition. 

Less obvious (perhaps not) -- the U.S. and Israel will continue to steal Palestinian land and resources for years and this will continue to undermine the possibility of a viable Palestinian State. 

<center>but</center>
<br />
Could it be that after such a ruthless and immoral collection of actions, Israel will still find itself as insecure as ever? After all, the Palestinian people will still be there wanting to live decent lives on their land with their resources. Where's the security in that right? 
<br />
Yes! A <em>built-in insecurity</em>! One useful to continuing a systematic jurisdictional and semantic brutality (i.e., one oppresses through a policing of space and language.).
<br />
The problem: How to "secure" the minds of Palestinians and Israelis alike.
<br />
Speculation: Securing minds requires securing space. How are these people called U.S.-Jews, Israeli-Jews, Israelis, Arab-Israelis, Palestinians, Christian-Palestinians, Jewish-Palestinians, Druids etc. to be secure? That is, how can the minds of most of the various tribes and familial alignments be secured?
<br />
Obviously and embarrassingly (the obvious being regarded as impossible because idealistic - <em>"humans can't be that way"</em>), obviously and embarrassingly, the means to securing the various tribal minds requires that <em>tribal mind</em> (tribal consciousness) expand. In other words, the idea of "my tribe", "my people" needs to expand. Ideally this consciousness expansion would evolve to the point of total inclusion of all tribes. <em>Then</em> many of the grounds and pretexts for insecurity become meaningless. Police space? For whom? (Yes. Of course. So many holes in this one .... . )
<br />
What will remain? Us. Who? Us human beings. Don't worry though - there's more than enough problems with us monkeys as individuals. Who needs tribal self-absorption breeding division and conflict on top of that!]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Arrests Outspoken Academic Norman Finkelstein</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/23/israel-arrests-outspoken-academic-norman-finkelstein/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 00:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for the law of return!
And the American academic Norman Finkelstein has been arrested and ordered deported from Israel. Finkelstein arrived in Tel Aviv earlier today on his way to the Occupied Territories. He was immediately detained and told he is banned from Israel for ten years. He’s expected to be deported tomorrow. Finkelstein [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT op-ed: American Jewish organizations are the obstacle to peace</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/20/nyt-op-ed-american-jewish-organizations-are-the-obstacle-to-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 20:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Could it be that after such a ruthless and immoral collection of actions, Israel will still find itself as insecure as ever? After all, the Palestinian people will still be there wanting to live decent lives on their land with their resources. Where's the security in that right? A built in insecurity demanding continued jurisdictional and semantic brutality (i.e., one oppresses through a policing of space and language.)]]></description>
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		<title>Israel at 60: the “iron wall” revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/16/israel-at-60-the-%e2%80%9ciron-wall%e2%80%9d-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 21:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1923, Ze&#8217;ev Jabotinsky, the founder of revisionist Zionism, published an article entitled On the Iron Wall. He argued that Arab nationalists were bound to oppose the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Consequently, a voluntary agreement between the two sides was unattainable. The only way to realise the Zionist project was behind an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Far Left Has Latin America Moved?</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/15/how-far-left-has-latin-america-moved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/15/how-far-left-has-latin-america-moved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 21:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are, it seems to me, four different kinds of evidence that one could put forward to say that Latin America has moved leftward. The first is that all of these governments have in one way or another sought to distance themselves from the United States to one degree or another. The Bush administration would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking efforts to stifle open debate about US-Israeli foreign policy: MuzzleWatch</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/11/tracking-efforts-to-stifle-open-debate-about-us-israeli-foreign-policy-muzzlewatch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/11/tracking-efforts-to-stifle-open-debate-about-us-israeli-foreign-policy-muzzlewatch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 18:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The site is called <strong><a href="http://www.muzzlewatch.com/">MuzzleWatch</a></strong> and it describes itself as <strong>"Tracking efforts to stifle open debate about US-Israeli foreign policy."</strong> For some this will be all too evident. For others it will come as a shock. For others still it will be anti-semitism to even suggest as much. 
<br />
Here are excerpts from the most recent posts:]]></description>
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		<title>Race, Gender, and Class in American Politics: Anything New?</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/01/race-gender-and-class-in-american-politics-anything-new/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/05/01/race-gender-and-class-in-american-politics-anything-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the world, May 1 is celebrated as May Day - the international workers' day. The only exception is the United States. The irony is that May Day is celebrated in memory of an American event - the Haymarket Riot in Chicago. On May 1, 1886, in many U.S. cities workers engaged in a general strike in support of an eight-hour day. In Chicago, 80,000 workers marched down Michigan Avenue. On the fourth day of the demonstrations, at the very end of a rally in Haymarket Square, violence broke out. Its origin is contested to this day, but some policemen were killed. Subsequently, leaders of the strike were arrested and four were executed for what was termed murder. Although they were German immigrants to the United States, they died singing not The Star-Spangled Banner but La Marseillaise, an expression of international class solidarity. Despite this, politicians in the United States have always tried to downplay the importance of class conflict as a defining issue of U.S. politics, which is why the United States does not celebrate May Day.

In 2008, there is a fiercely contested election for the presidency in the United States. There is a primary contest in the Democratic Party between a woman and an African-American. The Republican candidate is a White male. In the beginning, everyone denied that either race or gender was an issue. But as the contest has become prolonged and more fierce, both race and gender as themes have come to the fore. Everyone is still denying that class is an issue.]]></description>
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		<title>Pariah Diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/04/29/pariah-diplomacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/04/29/pariah-diplomacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A counter-productive Washington policy in recent years has been to boycott and punish political factions or governments that refuse to accept United States mandates. This policy makes difficult the possibility that such leaders might moderate their policies.

Two notable examples are in Nepal and the Middle East. About 12 years ago, Maoist guerrillas took up arms in an effort to overthrow the monarchy and change the nation’s political and social life. Although the United States declared the revolutionaries to be terrorists, the Carter Center agreed to help mediate among the three major factions: the royal family, the old-line political parties and the Maoists.

In 2006, six months after the oppressive monarch was stripped of his powers, a cease-fire was signed. Maoist combatants laid down their arms and Nepalese troops agreed to remain in their barracks. Our center continued its involvement and nations — though not the United States — and international organizations began working with all parties to reconcile the dispute and organize elections.]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli Military Trying to Close Palestinian Orphanages</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/04/29/israeli-military-trying-to-close-palestinian-orphanages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/04/29/israeli-military-trying-to-close-palestinian-orphanages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel has killed 1,020 Palestinian children since 2000 and Palestinians have killed 124 Israeli children. Too many precious children have suffered and died as a result of politics. Another outrage is about to occur and you can help stop it. On April 23 a program on French TV Channel 5 highlighted a tragedy that may occur at any moment. This news is not even discussed in the United States.
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		<title>Our Debt to Jimmy Carter</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/04/26/our-debt-to-jimmy-carter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/04/26/our-debt-to-jimmy-carter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
The government of Israel is boycotting Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, during his visit here this week. Ehud Olmert, who has not managed to achieve any peace agreement during his public life, and who even tried to undermine negotiations in the past, "could not find the time" to meet the American president who is a signatory to the peace agreement with Egypt. President Shimon Peres agreed to meet Carter, but made sure that he let it be known that he reprimanded his guest for wishing to meet with Khaled Meshal, as if the achievements of the Carter Center fall short of those of the Peres Center for Peace. Carter, who himself said he set out to achieve peace between Israel and Egypt from the day he assumed office, worked incessantly toward that goal and two years after becoming president succeeded - was declared persona non grata by Israel. ]]></description>
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		<title>No Peace Without Hamas</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/04/17/no-peace-without-hamas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/04/17/no-peace-without-hamas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[President Jimmy Carter's sensible plan to visit the Hamas leadership this week brings honesty and pragmatism to the Middle East while underscoring the fact that American policy has reached its dead end. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acts as if a few alterations here and there would make the hideous straitjacket of apartheid fit better. While Rice persuades Israeli occupation forces to cut a few dozen meaningless roadblocks from among the more than 500 West Bank 
control points, these forces simultaneously choke off fuel supplies to Gaza; blockade its 1.5 million people; approve illegal housing projects on West Bank land; and attack Gaza City with F-16s, killing men, women and children. Sadly, this is "business as usual" for the Palestinians.

Last week's attack on the Nahal Oz fuel depot should not surprise critics in the West. Palestinians are fighting a total war waged on us by a nation that mobilizes against our people with every means at its disposal -- from its high-tech military to its economic stranglehold, 
from its falsified history to its judiciary that "legalizes" the infrastructure of apartheid. Resistance remains our only option. Sixty-five years ago, the courageous Jews of the Warsaw ghetto rose in defense of their people. We Gazans, living in the world's largest open-air prison, can do no less.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Why? Because our Politicians are Whores.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/04/04/why-because-our-politicians-are-whores/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/04/04/why-because-our-politicians-are-whores/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from an interview with Zakariya Zubeidi, former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs&#8217; Brigades in Jenin. 
So why have you stopped? 
&#8220;In part because of the conflict between Fatah and Hamas. Look, it&#8217;s perfectly clear to me that we won&#8217;t be able to defeat Israel. My aim was for us, by means of the &#8216;resistance&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American ISM Volunteer Beaten and Arrested in Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/03/19/american-ism-volunteer-beaten-and-arrested-in-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/03/19/american-ism-volunteer-beaten-and-arrested-in-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
ACTION ALERT
March 19, 2008 
Contact: Joshua Walsh
communications@wrmea.com 
This email is being sent on behalf of ISM
American ISM Volunteer Beaten and Arrested in Israel

Blake Murphy, an American activist working with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the West Bank, was beaten and arrested by Israeli army and police forces on March 14, 2008. He now faces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THANK REP. RON PAUL FOR HIS COURAGEOUS STAND</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/03/07/thank-rep-ron-paul-for-his-courageous-stand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/03/07/thank-rep-ron-paul-for-his-courageous-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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ACTION ALERT
March 7, 2008 
Contact: Joshua Walsh
communications@wrmea.com 
THANK REP. RON PAUL FOR HIS COURAGEOUS STAND 
On March 5 the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution 951, “Condemning the ongoing Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilians by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations, and for other purposes,” by a count of 404-1. The lone voice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Morning, Hamas</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/03/06/good-morning-hamas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[March 3, 2008


<strong><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery03042008.html">Good Morning, Hamas</a></strong>
By <a href="http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/index.html">Uri Avnery</a>

We Israelis live in a world of ghosts and monsters. We do not conduct a war against living persons and real organizations, but against devils and demons which are out to destroy us. It is a war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness, between absolute good and absolute evil. That's how it looks to us, and that's how it looks to the other side, too.

Let's try to bring this war down from virtual spheres to the solid ground of reality. There can be no reasonable policy, nor even rational discussion, if we do not escape from the realm of horrors and nightmares.

After the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections, <a href="http://gush-shalom.org/">Gush Shalom</a> said that we must speak with them. Here are some of the questions that were showered on me from all sides: 

Do you like Hamas?

It is said that Hamas was created by Israel. Is that true?

Did the Hamas election victory show that Islam was on the rise among the Palestinian people?

.. why did Hamas win?

Can one reasonably expect the Palestinians to overthrow Hamas themselves?

.. how can one reach a settlement with an organization that declares that it will never recognize Israel and whose charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state?

What should we speak with Hamas about?

Won't Hamas exploit the cease-fire to arm itself?

If the cease-fire holds, what will be the next step?

So a formal peace is impossible?

Why would Hamas accept it? 

.. what is the place of Abbas in all this?

Is time working for us?

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		<title>IOF Commit more War Crimes over the Past 24 Hours:  8 New Victims Killed Raising the Total to 108 Killed, 54 of them Civilians</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/03/03/iof-commit-more-war-crimes-over-the-past-24-hours-8-new-victims-killed-raising-the-total-to-108-killed-54-of-them-civilians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Press Releases
Ref: 18/2008
Date: 03 March 2008
Time: 11:30 GMT   
  IOF Commit more War Crimes over the Past 24 Hours:
8 New Victims Killed Raising the Total to 108 Killed, 54 of them Civilians
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their military operations in the Gaza Strip. Over the past 24 hours, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Information Center</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/03/02/alternative-information-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The joint Palestinian/Israeli Alternative Information Center (AIC) Mission Statement:
The Alternative Information Center (AIC) is an internationally oriented, progressive, joint Palestinian-Israeli activist organization. It is engaged in dissemination of information, political advocacy, grassroots activism and critical analysis of the Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The AIC strives to promote full individual and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing in Gaza</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/03/02/killing-in-gaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the record.
2 IDF soldiers, 61 Palestinians die in Gaza clashes - Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers and at least 61 Palestinians, including at least 29 civilians, were killed on Saturday in an ongoing IDF ground incursion near the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabaliya. - by Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel, Mijal Grinberg, and Yuval [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Articles &#038; Essays - February 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/03/01/articles-essays-february-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See below for excerpts to articles listed.
The end of Zionism - by Avraham Burg - 09/15/03 - Guardian
How the 1967 War Doomed Israel - by Tony Karon - 07/06/07
&#8216;State has frozen E. Jerusalem building&#8217; - by Etgar Lefkovits - 02/26/08 - Jerusalem Post
Israel to confiscate 766 dunams of Palestinian land near Hebron - 02/24/08 - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli Generals Oppose Checkpoints</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/13/israeli-generals-oppose-checkpoints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>02/13/08 - Aljazeera.net</strong>

"The feeling of humiliation and the hate the roadblocks create increase the tendency of Palestinians to join militant groups and Hamas," Shlomo Brom, a former chief of the army's planning division who signed the letter, said.

As an alternative, Brom suggested using mobile army forces to set up temporary checkpoints when they receive concrete information of militant activity.

"We believe these alternatives are no worse than the movement restrictions" in preventing terror attacks, Ilan Paz, another signatory of the letter and a former head of the army's administration of Palestinian civilian affairs, said.

"You have to understand that there is damage in having the Palestinian people with its back to the wall, not seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, unable to improve their economy, unable to move from place to place," Paz told Israel Radio. 

"This creates a reality that creates terror, and we have to remember that."

<a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7E30B393-FD0C-4B4E-9651-3C61D54A3017.htm">more</a>   

 
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		<title>Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations: The Case Against Alan Dershowitz</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/12/plagiarism-cover-up-and-misrepresentations-the-case-against-alan-dershowitz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Frank J. Menetrez - 02/11/08 - Counter Punch
In June 2007, DePaul University denied tenure to Norman Finkelstein, an assistant professor of political science. The decision ignited a firestorm of protest from DePaul students and faculty, as well as from faculty across the country and abroad. Finkelstein&#8217;s department had voted 9-3 in favor of tenure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gisha - Aiming to Protect the Freedom of Movement of Palestinians</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/11/gisha-aiming-to-protect-the-freedom-of-movement-of-palestinians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look for news/rights posts from Gisha in the future. From their &#8220;about&#8221;
Gisha is an Israeli not-for-profit organization, founded in 2005, whose goal is to protect the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents. Gisha promotes rights guaranteed by international and Israeli law.
Since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel&#8217;s military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;a moral gloom is falling upon us as we stand at the edge of an abyss&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/06/a-moral-gloom-is-falling-upon-us-as-we-stand-at-the-edge-of-an-abyss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<blockquote>One after another, the final lights are being turned off, and a moral gloom is falling upon us as we stand at the edge of an abyss. Just last week, three more lights were turned off. The Winograd Report did not come out clearly against the fact that Israel embarked on a pointless war; the Supreme Court authorized collective punishment and the attorney general concluded that the killing of 12 Israeli citizens and someone from the territories by the police does not warrant a trial. The final keepers of order, the lighthouses of justice and law, are reconciling themselves with the most serious injustices of the institutions of authority and no one so much as utters a word about it. The upsetting and depressing crop of a single week has drawn the moral portrait of the country.

<strong><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/950742.html">The Lights Have Been Turned Off</a> - <em>by Gideon Levy</em> - 02/04/08 - Haaretz</strong> </blockquote>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;the Winograd Committee became irrelevant.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/06/the-winograd-committee-became-irrelevant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the Winograd Committee became irrelevant. It avoided dealing with the first question that should have been on its agenda: Was there any justification for embarking on the war? A committee that says nothing about a country that declares war on its neighbor, kills a thousand of its citizens, causes mass destruction, makes use of horrific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Court President Dorit Beinisch ruled that Israel is authorized to limit the supply of electricity, gasoline and diesel to the Gaza Strip&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the Supreme Court, that same institution to which all eyes are turned, and over whose influence there is a bitter, ongoing battle, authorized another bug in the works. A panel of justices headed by Court President Dorit Beinisch ruled that Israel is authorized to limit the supply of electricity, gasoline and diesel to the Gaza [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;If all the residents of the Gaza Strip deserve to be punished because of the Qassam rockets, then maybe all Israelis deserve to be punished because of the occupation?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the severity of the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision is not only on the human level: The Supreme Court is authorizing collective punishment, which is specifically forbidden under international law (Article 33 of the Geneva Convention). Henceforth, Israel will no longer be able to complain about attacks against innocents in Israel: If all the residents of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This is the difference between Israel &#8230; and the terrorist organizations&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/06/this-is-the-difference-between-israel-and-the-terrorist-organizations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is the difference between Israel, a democracy fighting for its life within the framework of the law, and the terrorist organizations fighting against it,&#8221; the Supreme Court stated sanctimoniously, like a lowly spokesman from the Foreign Ministry. 
&#8220;According to the law?&#8221; Which law? Not international law. &#8220;Israel is fighting for its life?&#8221; And maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Twelve citizens and a resident of the territories were killed by the police&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/06/twelve-citizens-and-a-resident-of-the-territories-were-killed-by-the-police/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[last, but not least: Attorney General Menachem Mazuz. Twelve citizens and a resident of the territories were killed by the police, and Mazuz ruled there was no point of initiating a criminal investigation at such a late stage. (The state prosecution decided at the time to delay the investigation until the Or Commission of Inquiry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>60 Years Ago &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/05/60-years-ago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixty is the number of the year. There will be three invocations of this number over the coming months: One to celebrate, another to lament and I'll get to the third in a moment. 

Those celebrating will celebrate that which the others lament - the establishment of the State of Israel, entailing as it has the Dispossession and relentless, ongoing destruction of the community of Palestinians. Much like other western colonial nations the celebration of the existence of one nation will be inescapably connected with the near decimation of another. It will celebrate the establishment of so-called security for one people, at the expense of that of another. To put a finer point on it, those celebrating will be celebrating an existence (i.e., "existence" in the sense of actual historical policies and practices) inextricably connected to ethnic cleansing and cultural destruction (with some arguing also, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6374.shtml">genocide</a>). 

Some celebration.

While some celebrate 60 years of the State of Israel and others lament 60 years since the Palestinian Nakba, I'm going to celebrate a different 60 year anniversary:

Sixty years ago the world established, The <em>Universal Declaration of Human Rights</em> (Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948)

Curious isn't it? That the establishment of the State of Israel - as a haven for Jews from persecution - should occur in the same year as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That the political rights of the Palestinians would already have been wholly violated by 10 December 1948. That the U.N. oversaw this violation, in fact, giving it official sanction. That today, 60 years later, the call for Israel to stop violating the political rights of the Palestinians is as relevant as ever. Finally, that despite all this, <em>human rights as a universal principle remains the key instrument to informing national governments of the degree of their depravity against their own or other peoples</em>.

Right now -  when degenerate but mighty forces within western culture act to denigrate the Universal Applicability of Human Rights - right now is the time to insist on these rights as forcefully as ever. ]]></description>
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		<title>4th International - Israeli Apartheid Week</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/05/4th-international-israeli-apartheid-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Israeli apartheid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<strong><a href="http://www.apartheidweek.org/">Israeli Apartheid Week</a></strong>

<blockquote>The past few years have seen a sharp increase of literature and analysis that has sought to document and challenge Israeli apartheid, including reports issued by major international bodies and human rights organizations and findings published by political leaders, thinkers, academics, and activists. Many of these efforts have highlighted the role that could be played by people and governments across the world in providing solidarity with the Palestinian struggle by exerting urgent pressure on Israel to alter its current structure and practices as an apartheid state.</blockquote>
 
(see also the blog <a href="http://filasteen.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/israeli-apartheid-week/">Filasteen</a> on this)]]></description>
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		<title>Gaza is the Evidence: Israel is Demented</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/05/gaza-is-the-evidence-israel-is-demented/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[airport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some facts and interpretations about Gaza: What are the facts? What things have happened? Why?. Big project. There are literally thousands of articles on the topic from 2005 to the present, so it is necessary to build this post over time or over a number of posts. See here for the Israel is Demented piece. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Inquiry Blames Israelis for Deaths in 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/02/canadian-inquiry-blames-israelis-for-deaths-in-2006/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/02/02/canadian-inquiry-blames-israelis-for-deaths-in-2006/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA — A Canadian military inquiry’s report released Friday blames Israeli forces for the “tragic and preventable” deaths of a Canadian soldier and three other United Nations observers in Lebanon in July 2006.
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		<title>Articles &#038; Essays - January 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/31/articles-essays-january-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>My top 12 for the month. See below for additional plus excerpts to all the articles listed.</em>

<strong><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40983">U.N. Security Council Loses Credibility Over Iran, Israel</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Thalif Deen</em> - 01/29/08 - Inter Press Service</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/cook01042008.html">Evidence of Israeli "Cowardly Blending" Comes to Light: War Crimes Airbrushed from History</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Jonathan Cook</em> - 01/04/08 - Counter Punch</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40801">How The Pentagon Planted a False Hormuz Story</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Gareth Porter</em> - 01/16/08 - IPS</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/01/23/BL2008012301758.html">935 Iraq Falsehoods</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Dan Froomkin</em> - 01/23/08 - Washington Post</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.antiwar.com/orig/worthington.php?articleid=12238">Canada's Gitmo Torture Warning Shows Double Standards</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Andy Worthington</em> - 01/21/08 - antiwar.com</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&#038;ID=565222974937237290">Report: Israeli military courts automatically convict Palestinians </a></strong> - <strong><em>by Aron Heller</em> - 01/06/08 - newspress.com</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/942126.html">Citing security, state refuses to release data on settlements</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Amos Harel</em> - 01/07/08 - Haaretz</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01042008.html">Jane Harman and Liberty's Lost Light: Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Paul Craig Roberts</em> - 01/04/08 - Counter Punch</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/nairn01282008.html">Justified Political Violence: The Breaking of the Gaza Wall</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Allan Nairn</em> - 01/28/08 - Counter Punch</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/01/opinion/edtakeyh.php">Russia Goes its Own Way</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Ray Takeyh and Nikolas Gvosdev</em> - 01/01/08 - International Herald Tribune</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/means01032008.html">Notice to Those Occupying Lakotah Lands: This Property is Condemned</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Russell Means</em> - 01/03/08 - Counter Punch</strong>

<strong><a href="http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/printer_1389188.php">
Conflicts killed 108 Palestinians, three Israelis, UN says</a></strong> - <strong>01/30/08 - monstersandcritics.com</strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Bedfellows to Oblivion</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/28/bedfellows-to-oblivion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Annihilation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<blockquote><em>“The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.”</em>                                                    <center><strong>Five Western military leaders.</strong></center></blockquote>




Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Western rationality at its calculated finest:

We must stop others from having/using what we have - the ultimate means to literally holocaust massive numbers of people, totally destroy total environments and spread radiation for thousands of kilometers causing untold mutations and disease and eventual death.

How? 

By using our weapons of mass destruction to literally holocaust massive numbers of people, totally destroy their total environment and spread radiation for thousands of kilometers causing untold mutations and disease and eventual death.

Nuclear annihilation to prevent nuclear annihilation. The use of weapons of mass destruction to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction. 

This passes for western reason? Western thought so bankrupt, so devoid of content that all it can muster up is massive killing to prevent the <em>imagined future possibility</em> of massive killing? But if this is what passes for western reason mustn't that mean that western reason has past? I think it does. We've past ourselves by. We're done with. We've nothing left to offer but rationales for the ultimate in destruction.]]></description>
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		<title>Gaza, Hamas, Egypt and the Great Israeli Blunder?</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/27/gaza-hamas-egypt-and-the-great-israeli-blunder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/27/gaza-hamas-egypt-and-the-great-israeli-blunder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[blunder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Is this how it will be viewed months from now? A demented experiment in collective punishment that is both an embarrassment and a blunder (including war crimes?) following as it does the blunder in Lebanon in 2006 (definitely involving war crimes), followed by .... ? There are thousands upon thousands of articles since the so-called Israeli 'withdrawal' from Gaza (I'm taking a stab at some of them for the "Gaza is the Evidence" complement to <a href="http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/21/israel-is-demented-gaza-is-the-evidence/">Israel is Demented</a>). Here's but a smattering of recent ones including from mainstream sources but beginning with the ever independent Uri Avnery who describes Israel's actions in Gaza as a blunder.:</em>

<em>See below for excerpts to following articles</em>

<strong><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19189.htm">Worse Than a Crime</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Uri Avnery</em> -  01/26/08 - Information Clearing House</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/949361.html">Finally, a popular uprising</a></strong> - <strong></strong><strong>by Amira Hass</strong> - 01/30/08 - Haaretz

<strong><a href="http://opendemocracy.net/node/35675/print">Gaza's agency, Israel's choice</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Yossi Alpher</em> - 01/29/08 - opendemocracy.net</strong>

<strong><a href="http://opendemocracy.net/node/35673/print">"Gaza is quite a dynamic place now": An Interview</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Eyad Sarraj</em> - 01/29/08 - opendemocracy.net</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/nairn01282008.html">Justified Political Violence: The Breaking of the Gaza Wall</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Allan Nairn</em> - 01/28/08 - Counter Punch</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40946">Egypt Welcomes Border Breach</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani</em> - 01/26/08 - Inter Press Service</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/world/middleeast/27mideast.html?ei=5090&#038;en=56cfa725d50b785f&#038;ex=1359090000&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=print">Israel's Experimental Pressure Backfires</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Steven Erlanger</em> - 01/27/08 - New York Times</strong>

<strong><a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2247566,00.html">Gaza's falling wall changes Middle East map for ever</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Peter Beaumont</em> - 01/27/08 - Observer</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&#038;ar=1457">Gaza's Misery Has to be Stopped</a></strong> - <strong>01/24/08 - Financial Times</strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Stephen Harper OK with the Torture of Canadians?</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/23/is-stephen-harper-ok-with-the-torture-of-canadians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The answer appears to be yes. Stephen Harper has done absolutely nothing to have &#8220;Omar Khadr, the Canadian Guantánamo detainee who was just 15 years old when he was captured in Afghanistan in July 2002,&#8221; returned to Canada.
Read Canada&#8217;s Gitmo Torture Warning Shows Double Standards (by Andy Worthington - 01/21/08 - antiwar.com) for the details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel is Demented: Gaza is the Evidence</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/21/israel-is-demented-gaza-is-the-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, atrocities occur elsewhere in the world: the populations of the Sudan, the Congo, Tibet, Iraq and Afghanistan all suffer under the blow of atrocities. And? <em>And atrocities are committed almost daily by the Jewish State - Israel - against the Palestinian population</em>. That is a fact. Don't be intimidated away from a fact. Misplaced guilt has no place here either. Face it. It's the truth.

The Jewish State is barbaric. This is not a fact. It is an interpretation or a characterization of Israel's daily onslaught of killing, land theft and subjugation of the Palestinians. Whether or not you find this characterization apt, however, is likely related to your interest in learning the truth about these daily atrocities. Look into it yourself (e.g., <a href="http://www.wrmea.com/">Washington Report on Middle East Affairs</a>; <a href="http://www.fmep.org/">Foundation for Middle East Peace</a>; <a href="http://www.stoptorture.org.il/eng/">Public Committee Against Torture in Israel</a>; <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml">The Electronic Intifada</a>). Alternatively, look to Part II (to follow).

The State of the Jews ought to protect its citizens, of course, including its Palestinian population (<a href="http://www.jkcook.net/Articles2/0310.htm#Top">sadly this cannot go without saying</a>). However, Israel might consider other more plausible means to achieving state security than the near daily murdering of Palestinians. It might want to rethink <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/200701220021">starving</a> people (<a href="http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75726">see also</a>) as a military tactic. Or of imprisoning over one million Palestinians in an area a mere 360 sq. km. It might want to rethink the consequences of flat out <a href="http://www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/200205_Land_Grab.asp">stealing</a> Palestinian land, bit by bit through the work of legal sounding policies and criminal-zealot-settlers - a truly disgusting lot these colonizers. Or <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1218408.stm">polluting</a> or <a href="http://www.kadaitcha.com/2006/11/29/israels-water-theft/">stealing their water</a> and <a href="http://www.wrmea.com/archives/April_2005/0504025.html">other resources</a>. Or <a href="http://www.btselem.org/english/Publications/Summaries/200609_Act_of_Vengeance.asp">bombing</a> the Gazans only electrical power plant. Or withholding <a href="http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75693">medical supplies</a>. Or letting Palestinians die waiting at <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24054&#038;Cr=gaza&#038;Cr1=">check points</a>. <em>This</em> is the State of the Jews. These (above) are merely a gloss on the brutal facts. It is not hyperbole, empty rhetoric nor <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/neumann0604.html">anti-Semitism</a> to state it. It is willful blindness to deny it. It is inhuman to ignore it. It is morally right to actively oppose it.]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Palestinian State A Real Threat To The State Of Israel?</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/21/is-a-palestinian-state-a-real-threat-to-the-state-of-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again Tom Feeley of the <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/">Information Clearing House</a> highlights a video clip of an interesting question and answer session back in 1989 (kudos to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=CubsWinBearsRule">CubsWinBearsRule</a> for the clip). 

Wolf Blitzer and Norman G. Finkelstein are asked the following questions:

To Blitzer:

You imply that Israel has the right to exist because of what happened to the Jews during World War II. Why in Palestine? Don't the Palestinians too have a right to a secure homeland? Why do they have to suffer and make way for the Jews?

To Finkelstein:

The intifada is not an isolated problem. This problem is affected by four wars, terrorism and the Holocaust. Why is it not relevant, in your opinion, for Israel to be secure?]]></description>
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		<title>Blackout in Besieged Gaza City</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/21/blackout-in-besieged-gaza-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an Action Alert from the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
January 20, 2008
The Gaza Strip’s only power plant has shut down as Israel’s blockade has dried up fuel supplies. Tonight Gazans are living in darkness as the second of the plant&#8217;s two working turbines was switched off on the third day of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s Cowardice</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/20/canadas-cowardice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That Canadian government doesn't mess around: From a principled - or at least, objective - stance to sniveling cowards in two days!

1. <strong><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN17629871">Canada puts U.S., Israel on Torture Watchlist</a> </strong> - An official Canadian government document has put both the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners run the risk of being tortured, CTV television reported on Thursday. <strong>01/18/08 - Reuters</strong>

2. <strong><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/946065.html">Canada takes close allies U.S., Israel off torture watchlist</a></strong> -Canada's foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured. - <strong>01/19/08 - Haaretz</strong>

3. <strong><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/586C403D-E4C2-4975-9736-07C108C38BFB.htm">Canada to rewrite 'torture' manual</a></strong> - Amnesty International has criticised a decision by Canada to rewrite a training manual that put the US and Israel on a list of nations where prisoners risk being tortured. - 01/20/08 - Al Jazeera
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		<title>Israel Seals Gaza Borders, Continues Attacks on Trapped Population</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/19/israel-seals-gaza-borders-continues-attacks-on-trapped-population/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Three days after killing at least 20 Palestinians in helicopter and tank attacks on the Gaza Strip—and just one week after President George W. Bush met in Israel with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other top officials—Israel on Friday, Jan. 18 ordered all border crossings into Gaza temporarily closed as it continued its deadly attacks on more than 1.5 million Palestinians already denied food, clean water, electricity and medical supplies. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced that the transfer of medicines and humanitarian aid into Gaza now will be allowed “only in exceptional circumstances.”]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s that Bush Playing at? Words vs. Deeds.</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/13/whats-that-bush-playing-at-words-vs-deeds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/13/whats-that-bush-playing-at-words-vs-deeds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>A little point, counter-point. Bush in Israel spewing nice sounding things but meaning none of them.</em>]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul Forcefully Responds to Racist Rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/12/ron-paul-forcefully-responds-to-racist-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/12/ron-paul-forcefully-responds-to-racist-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Wolf Blitzer Interviews Ron Paul Regarding Racist Accusation - Video</strong>

<strong>
James Kirchick Revealed? Kirchick, interviewed by Tucker Carlson, insinuates Ron Paul is a racist - Video</strong> [Watch as Tucker Carlson asks for evidence and ends seemingly puzzled as to why this putz was even invited on. Still the smear, no doubt, did the damage it was intended to do.]

<strong>Ron Paul is a Racist??</strong>[Thoughtful comment.]]]></description>
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		<title>James Kirchick&#8217;s Smear Piece in the New Republic</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/12/james-kirchicks-smear-piece-in-the-new-republic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/12/james-kirchicks-smear-piece-in-the-new-republic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Despite the fact that Paul has a strong personal approval ratings and polls well against his competitors; the media has deliberately---and very successfully---kept him out of the public eye. That will be more difficult to do now that his campaign war-chest is packed with contributions and his base of support is expanding across the country. 

We expect the media to ditch its failed strategy of simply ignoring Paul and take the more aggressive approach of attacking him outright. Now that Paul has established himself as a credible threat to the warmongering, autocratic corporate elite; he will have to be discredited through a coordinated media-blitz which will target his voting record, his character, and any other trivial foible which may incite public scorn. 

He’s got a bull’s-eye on his back. 

<strong><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18681.htm">The Media’s Plan to Ambush Ron Paul</a> - <em>by Mike Whitney</em> - 11/07/07 - Information Clearing House</strong></blockquote>



<blockquote>" ... Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics."

<a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca">Angry White Man: The bigoted past of Ron Paul</a> - <strong><em>by James Kirchick</em> - 01/08/08 - The New Republic</strong></blockquote>]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul on the Tonight Show</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/08/ron-paul-on-the-tonight-show/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/08/ron-paul-on-the-tonight-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Leno does politics. He doesn't get (no doubt he <em>does</em> get) why Ron Paul wasn't invited to discuss the issues with the rest of the Republican presidential candidates on Fox News. How's that for fair and balanced coverage of the <em>Republican</em> candidates no less!

Here's Ron Paul talking with Jay Leno:]]></description>
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		<title>Norman Finkelstein: Statement at Beirut News Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/08/norman-finkelstein-statement-at-beirut-news-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/08/norman-finkelstein-statement-at-beirut-news-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my last visit there have been three brutal wars in the region for which the U.S. government bears primary responsibility.]]></description>
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		<title>Jews for Ron Paul</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/06/jews-for-ron-paul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Here are some articles (links and excerpts) that collectively aim to persuade the reader of the benefits of Ron Paul's non-interventionist foreign policy objectives for the State of Israel. The main point: Were Ron Paul to end all foreign aid to Israel</em> and all other countries <em>receiving such aid, in dollar terms Israel would actually be strengthened. In short, Ron Paul's policy on foreign aid is good for Israel. I see the value of such non-intervention not so much in terms of the relative strengthening of Israel but rather in terms of how it would increase the likelihood of serious moves toward negotiated peace amongst the relevant regional participants. Strengthened or not, I'm inclined to view Israel standing on its own amongst Arab and Muslims nations, as promoting beneficial trade relations rather than promoting detrimental expansionist actions. U.S. foreign aid is largely U.S. meddling in the sovereignty of nations. It never seems to serve the interests of peace. The meddling is more likely intended to foster various kinds of discord and instability deemed of value to an Imperial America worldview. I think we've had about enough of that murderous mentality.</em>]]></description>
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		<title>An Arab Woman Blues</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/01/an-arab-woman-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Layla Anwar&#8217;s blog centers on &#8220;Iraq&#8221; (what once was a nation-state) but with plenty said about the actors in the region - U.S., Iran, Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, Israel as well as Iraqi resistance, Sunni&#8217;s, Shiites, Kurds.. Give it a read. Here are a few suggested starting points:
And the &#8220;Show&#8221; goes on &#8230; - Conquer, divide, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaza and the Jewish State: A Record</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/31/gaza-and-the-jewish-state-a-record/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/31/gaza-and-the-jewish-state-a-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>I'll build this one over time from most recent. It is obviously a small selection but will grow. My aim is to focus on the general picture - the situation in Gaza and its causes. The daily killings  are not included nor the frequent articles reporting accusations of tunnel building nor even the reports of the acquisition of arms by Hamas. Most of those killed are Palestinian. This is clearly documented. Hamas would be foolish to not try and procure arms just as I suppose Israel would be foolish to not try and stop it. At any rate, the means to procuring arms seems incidental in the sense that since Hamas</em> must <em>arm against Israel, how it goes about doing this is part of the nature of resisting a brutal occupation. What will be included then are articles focusing on living/economic conditions, the strategies and tactics of oppression as well as Human Rights reports at a minimum.</em>

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Here's the links to articles or alerts (mainly - one original post) that are elsewhere on the blog:

<a href="http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/27/gaza-hamas-egypt-and-the-great-israeli-blunder/">
Gaza, Hamas, Egypt and the Great Israeli Blunder?</a> - 01/27/08

<a href="http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/21/israel-is-demented-gaza-is-the-evidence/">
Israel is Demented. Gaza is the Evidence.</a> - 01/21/08

<a href="http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/21/blackout-in-besieged-gaza-city/">
Blackout in Besieged Gaza City</a> - 01/21/08

<a href="http://www.willtotruth.com/2008/01/19/israel-seals-gaza-borders-continues-attacks-on-trapped-population/">
Israel Seals Gaza Borders. Continues Attacks on Trapped Population.</a>

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<strong><a href="http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=9012975">Israel's Supreme Court rejects rights groups' appeal against Gaza fuel cuts</a></strong> - Israel's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by human rights groups on Thursday for an injunction against fuel cuts to the Gaza Strip, rejecting their argument that the cuts cause humanitarian harm. - <strong>01/03/08 - International Herald Tribune</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.btselem.org/english/Press_Releases/20071231.asp">B'Tselem Press Release</a></strong> - According to B'Tselem, two themes clearly emerge from examination of the spectrum of human rights concerns in 2007. The first is the use of security justifications for virtually every Israeli action in the Occupied Territories . There is no doubt that Israel faces serious security threats, and is entitled and even obligated to do its utmost to protect its population. However, far too often, Israel fails to appropriately balance its security needs with equally important values, including protecting the rights of Palestinians under its control. In addition, Israeli authorities often exploit security threats in order to advance prohibited political interests, such as perpetuating settlements and effectively annexing them to Israel . -- The second theme arising from the report is the lack of accountability of Israeli security forces, in all matters relating to human rights. This can be seen clearly in the reluctance of the state to thoroughly investigate violations and to prosecute those responsible for them. The lack of accountability can also be seen in the denial of most Palestinians' right to compensation when they are injured through no fault of their own by Israeli forces. - <strong>12/31/07 - B'Tselem</strong>

more .....]]></description>
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		<title>Articles &#038; Essays - December 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/28/articles-essays-december-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Excerpts below.</em>

<strong><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2007/12/top-ten-myths-about-iraq-2007.html">Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2007</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Juan Cole</em> - 12/26/07</strong>

<strong><a href="http://uruknet.info/?p=m39587&#038;s1=h1">The Case for Talking to Tehran</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Trita Parsi</em> - 12/27/07 - uruknet.info</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071230_the_five_iraqs/">The Five Iraqs</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Scott Ritter</em> - 12/30/07 - truthdig</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18978.htm">Waiting for "Mr.Goodbar."</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Layla Anwar</em> - 12/31/07 - Information Clearing House</strong>

<strong><a href="http://antiwar.com/hacohen/?articleid=12110">Beware of Barak</a></strong>  - <strong><em>by Ran HaCohen</em> - 12/27/07 - antiwar.com</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/featherstone/featherstone71.html">No Good Options for Interventionists</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Charles H. Featherstone</em> - 12/29/07 - LewRockwell.com</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.antiwar.com/orig/beitohor.php?articleid=12139">Ron Paul Is Right About Pakistan</a></strong> - <strong><em>by David T. Beito and Scott Horton</em> - 12/31/07 - antiwar.com</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070702_a_declaration_of_independence_from_israel/">A Declaration of Independence From Israel</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Chris Hedges</em> - 07/02/07 - truthdig.com</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/hornberger12272007.html">Shame on the New York Times: Smearing Ron Paul</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Jacob G. Hornberger</em> - 12/27/07 - Counter Punch</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern12282007.html">Lessons from the Past: Creeping Fascism</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Ray McGovern</em> - 12/28/07 - Counter Punch</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/pal2.php">An Interview with Hanan Ashrawi - The Demographic Argument is Inherently Racist</a> </strong> - <strong>12/17/07 - Bitterlemons.org</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18951.htm">What Does Freedom Really Mean?</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Ron Paul</em> - 12/26/07 - Information Clearing House</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18947.htm">Lakota Sioux - The Bravest Americans</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Kathryn A. Graham</em> - 12/25/07 - Tribe</strong>

<strong><a href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/875/re5.htm">Tel Aviv rocked (...a US intelligence report that sees no threat in Iran...)</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Saleh Al-Naami</em> - December 13-19, 2007 - Al Ahram</strong>

<strong><a href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/875/re1.htm">The Only Option (Palestinian Unity)</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Khaled Amayreh</em> - December 13-19, 2007 - Al Ahram</strong>

<strong><a href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/875/re4.htm">Absent Iran in Focus (U.S. Reeling Since NIE Report)</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Rasha Saad</em> - December 13-19, 2007 - Al Ahram</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.binghamton.edu/fbc/223en.htm">A Major Reversal? The NIE Report on Iran</a></strong> - <strong>by Immanuel Wallerstein - 12/14/07</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18865.htm">An Open Letter to the Antiwar Left: Why we shouldn't ignore Ron Paul's candidacy...</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Joshua Frank</em> - 12/11/07 - Information Clearing House</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18870.htm">Bombed if you do, Bombed if you Don't</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Ron Paul</em> - 12/11/07 - Information Clearing House</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.agenceglobal.com/Article.asp?Id=1429">First Test of Annapolis</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Rami G. Khouri</em> - 12/10/07 - Agence Global</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery12102007.html">Ahmadinejad Has Screwed Us Again!: How They Stole the Bomb From Us</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Uri Avnery</em> - 12/10/07 - Counter Punch</strong>

<strong><a href="http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12030">Iran, Nukes,and the 'Laptop of Death': How we were almost lied into war - again</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Justin Raimondo</em> - 12/10/07 - antiwar.com</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071204_it_turns_out_ahmadinejad_is_honest/">It Turns Out Ahmadinejad Was the Truthful One</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Robert Scheer</em> - 12/04/07 - truthdig.com</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18833.htm">Putin's Landslide</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Eric Margolis</em> - 12/05/07 - Information Clearing House</strong>
<strong><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174871/dilip_hiro_bush_s_losing_iranian_hand">
Bush's Losing Iranian Hand</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Dilip Hiro</em> - 12/06/07 - Tom Dispatch</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.agenceglobal.com/Article.asp?Id=1426">Jewish Israel Needs Wholesome, Healed Palestine</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Rami G. Khouri</em> - 12/05/07 - Agence Global</strong>

<strong><a href="http://www.agenceglobal.com/Article.asp?Id=1424">False Choices, or Media Traps</a></strong> - <strong><em>by Immanuel Wallerstein</em> - 12/01/07 - Agence Global </strong>]]></description>
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		<title>And The &#8220;Show&#8221; Goes On&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/27/and-the-show-goes-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the blog Arab Woman Blues and found via the Information Clearing House &#8230;



And The &#8220;Show&#8221; Goes On&#8230;
by Layla Anwar
Conquer, divide, split and fragment. Pit one against the other and one against the same&#8230;
Yesterday’s foes are today’s friends, and today’s friends are tomorrow’s enemies&#8230;
And the show goes on&#8230;
I have been reading extensively about the Sunni [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jews Against the Occupation</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/22/jews-against-the-occupation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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Jews Against the Occupation is an organization of progressive, secular and religious Jews of all ages throughout the New York City area advocating peace through justice for Palestine and Israel.  Our points of unity are as follows:
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s Betrayal of the United States?</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/20/israels-betrayal-of-the-united-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/20/israels-betrayal-of-the-united-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Ritter&#8217;s US Must Reevaluate Its Relationship With Israel astounds. It astounds through the sheer force of what is being stated. It astounds because it is being stated. 
According to Ritter, among other things, Israel&#8217;s current policies are betraying the United States.
The government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has embarked on policies that are questionable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End the Siege on Gaza</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/16/end-the-siege-on-gaza/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/16/end-the-siege-on-gaza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Palestinian International Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza
&#8220;End the Siege is a genuine call to rescue people not governments or political parties. Our humanitarian non-partisan campaign aims at putting pressure on the Israeli government in order to end the siege imposed on the civilians of Gaza. To do so, we must work on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Truth Un-American?</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/09/is-the-truth-un-american/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/09/is-the-truth-un-american/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Peter C. Baker&#8217;s review of a book on George Orwell - a collection of twenty essay&#8217;s focusing on the currency and relevance of Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;brand of vigilant skepticism about language, politics and the media&#8221; - Baker discusses one essay within entitled Our Own Thought Police. [The book itself is entitled What Orwell Didn&#8217;t Know.] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Rationality in the Face of U.S./Israeli Madness</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/09/iranian-rationality-in-the-face-of-usisraeli-madness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/09/iranian-rationality-in-the-face-of-usisraeli-madness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities:
The Director of National Intelligence serves as the head of the Intelligence Community (IC), overseeing and directing the implementation of the National Intelligence Program and acting as the principal advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Human Rights More Important than American National Security?</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/04/are-human-rights-more-important-than-american-national-security/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/12/04/are-human-rights-more-important-than-american-national-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Immanuel Wallerstein sure knows how to decontruct a &#8220;malicious&#8221; question. Here&#8217;s a succinct take on his False Choices, or Media Traps to be found at Agence Global.
At a presidential candidates debate, journalist Wolf Blitzer of CNN fame, asked the Democratic candidates this:
“Are human rights more important than American national security?”
It&#8217;s the Battle of the Titans! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Articles &#038; Essays - November 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/11/30/articles-essays-november-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/11/30/articles-essays-november-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[See below for excerpts to listed articles.
Why Norman Finkelstein Would Have Tenure — in Israel - by Neve Gordon - 11/30/07 - Chronicle of Higher Education
Olmert: &#8216;If talks fail, Israel will be finished&#8217; - by Donald Macintyre - 11/30/07 - Independent
Blowback from Moscow - by Patrick J. Buchanan - 11/30/07 - worldnetdaily.com
The Cyber Guardians of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annapolis: The Cost of Failure</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/11/24/annapolis-the-cost-of-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/11/24/annapolis-the-cost-of-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first on-line responses to the publication of the letter to President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was a simple, straightforward question: "What is in it for Israel?" The "it" referred to guidelines the letter proposed for an agreement that would end Israel's occupation of the territories the IDF overran forty years ago in a conflict—as Israelis were reminded by the celebrated author David Grossman when he addressed a recent commemoration of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination—that is now in its 100th year.

What is in it for Israel should be self-evident, but now that three new Israeli generations have been born having no memory of Israel without settlements, it no longer is; for too many, the occupation—and the spiral of Israeli-Palestinian violence that has come with it—is a given, the natural order of things.

An agreement that leads to the end of an occupation that with the best of intentions humiliates and brutalizes an entire nation should be more than enough of a reason to go for it. The subjugation and permanent dispossession of millions of people is surely not the vocation of Judaism, nor is it an acceptable condition for a Jewish national revival.]]></description>
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		<title>What is the truth about &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/11/06/what-is-the-truth-about/</link>
		<comments>http://www.willtotruth.com/2007/11/06/what-is-the-truth-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Stroud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>19th Century European anti-Semitism?

Theodor Herzl?

the Balfour Declaration?

the settlement of Palestine?

the Nazi Holocaust?

Zionist relations with European governments during WW II?

1947-1951 in Palestine?

the Six Day War?

U.S. relations, first with Zionism and later Israel?

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U.S. relations with the Arab Nations? 

the Energy Crisis of the 1970s?

the Camp David Peace Accords?

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