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The only justification for killing anyone but your self is political. I would have no problem killing right wingers based on the logic that these people are people who incite murder and therefore they are murderers. But they are worse than murderers. They claim the right to kill whole ethnic groups and to deprive you of your rights. I would have no problem killing Bush, the Nazis, the Christan Right and anyone else who threatens large numbers of people politically or physically..

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Drawing and quartering might very well be too light a penality for right wingers. I can't think of a too painful a method for the execution of Cheney for example.

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The situation in Darfur is caused by increasing deserts. Nomadic desert tribes are being forced to encroach on other peoples land as their watering holes dry up. Desertification can cause wars. Desertification increases global warming. When I went to school the solution was reforestation and hydrology studies on a global scale that would recommend solutions to the problem. Why wasn’t this done more vigorously? Part of the reason is that people will have to be moved. More than likely people would be asked to move to let forests grow and for dams to be built to better manage water resources. This …

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I wish we had some sort of agitation to stop the growing deserts which is a world wide phenomena and problem. There is a potential that the growing deserts and melting glaciers are going to increase water shortages. From what I know of the Three Gorges Dam project it should control water usage to a high degree and the lakes formed should be a good source of evaporate water but ideally heavy forest should be planted around the lake to moderate evaporation. Generally forestation is the best way to increase water supplies. I have heard arguments that one way to increase …

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> “Every year there are sandstorms, and every time there is a sandstorm our cotton is destroyed and we have to replant it, which costs a lot This is another problem, plowing land loosens the soil and increases evaporation increasing drying conditions. That was how the dust bowl of the 1920-30's was made. What is needed is to analyze trends 50 years out and institute preventative practices.

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>>>>So given the known dangers of counterfeits, why are Democratic politicians so eager to open our borders to reimportation?

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The medical industry is exceedingly corrupt. Every aspect of it. Most everyone working in it are overpaid. The doctors are very overpaid (and often overworked). Doctors should not be persons looking to make oodles of money but are looking to help people, the same is true of everyone in the field. Most everything related to the medical industry is very overpriced. This is because the structure of the industry is based on monopoly. The number of Drs. are set by the industry. The prescription drug racket is run on a mafia basis. The most corrupt is the insurance industry which scams …

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>>>The pharmafake trade also lends credence to the view that all Western medical initiatives are profit-driven fraud and bolsters quacks promoting such home-grown tragedies as treating AIDS with garlic and beetroot instead of antiretrovirals, as Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South Africa’s criminally deluded minister of health, has said.

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Right wingers, especially Jewish Right wingers have no shame. It is amazing how disgusting they are. These cretinous lizards take dishonesty to new lows.

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Those Venona files are bullshit anti Communist crap, mostly false. I F Stone Newsletter was one of the few publications I actually paid for. Not only was he a researcher but he had a great style.

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You anti-Communist pricks are rather disgusting. Please send this around the net. It is very important to fight the Brown Shirts --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15156.htm A Personal Declaration of Independence I refuse to accept as my government actions by the current administration and its obsequious servants, the Republican Congress and the Republican Senate. By William A. Cook “If there’s any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it’s flawed logic … It’s unacceptable to think that there’s any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of …

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I might be ignorant about many things but I know a fascist when I see one. You are a fascist. Izzy was a good decent human being and why should anyone care whether or not he was a communist. (Which I doubt) Communists did a lot of good in the world and scum like you are only evil. The best capitalist is a dead capitalist.

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What we need to do is get in the streets and fight fascism

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I was almost going to cry for Mr. Whatthehecks stocks. Is he trying out for the most disgusting poster at this site. There are ways to benefit from trade but it doesn't have to lower standards of living in this country. Ideally there should be a method to raise living standards world wide while people look out for their own best interests.

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There is only one way in American culture to end de facto segregation, poverty and crime ---and that is to make certain everyone has well paying jobs. The historic and sociological evidence is overwhelming. It is just never going to happen until their is a violent revolution and the capitalist system is overthrown and that revolution has a clarion call for equality along with liberty and fraternity. I challenge anyone to show me where through logic or reason I am wrong.

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Mr. Wolf do you really believe such right wing trash? --- Stuff that has no basis in reality? Do you think people living in the slums of the USA are that well off? (It should be commented that no other advanced capitalist country has as bad slums as the USA)! Do you realize that life expectancy, infant mortality, beggary, crime and other indicators of well being are as bad in the USA central cities as in some third world countries? Not only is the poverty world wide an indicator of the horrendous failure of capitalism, but especially in its extreme form …

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Mr. Wolf why don't you think we have well paying jobs for everyone?

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Non Sequitur but keep trying . Someday you will say something on topic and coherent

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>>>Spinoza.........What planet are you from? Poverty is universal. Suffering is universal.......... Moron.

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Only if I think you are worthy of making an argument with, ---which is not the case right now. Based on previous posts I did not see any common ground

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By the way Sweden has never been Socialist, it is just that in the 60's and 70's it had less inequality than other countries due to social democrat policies.

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Today's Democracy Now has a debate on the movie Loose Change. The problem with the conspiracy theories is that they don't make sense in that there are too many witnesses. I don't trust the Bushites but I don't think they are that smart either. As I've said before, if anything, the administration should have raised an alarm concerning a threat that they were warned about before the attack --- but I can understand why they didn't. On the other hand not giving a warning can be conceived of as a conspiracy if the motivation was political in nature. We can't know …

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This is why Israel is hated world wide. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14762.htm http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14753.htm

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Yes, Kaw, I noted that and wondered about the authors point also. But the next sentence clarified his position.

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Poor what the heck, yes there is the "fog of war" in which all sides try to portray their side as good and most damaged. But face it your side lost in the propaganda war and they lost because they deserved to lose. Israel acted immorally and illegally as it most always does only this time they were most boorish and the whole world was watching. The Internet is very good at exposing wrong doing. Everyone knows that Israel is acting like barbarians in Gaza and the West Bank. The world is watching and judging.

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Jews have a hard time admitting they have been acting immorally and unjustly. They make all sorts of excuses for themselves. Sometimes it is better to be honest. and live with ones neighbors in a peaceful manner.

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Visit http://www.worldcantwait.org and organize to take back this country

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>>>For the record, the PLO has supported a 2-state solution since 1988.

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This is why I consider liberals as the scummy enemy. "I'm a Leftist, But ... " The Liberals' War on Lebanon By URI AVNERY I once saw a nice sketch in a political cabaret: on the stage several people were speaking in unconnected sentences, all of which ended with the word "but". For example: "Some of my best friends are Jews, but", "I have nothing against blacks, but", "I really detest racism, but" During the recent war, I frequently heard similar phrases: "I am a leftist, but" These words were invariably - but invariably! - followed by a rightist statement. http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery09082006.html …

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Nobody has a lock on the truth here. One thing I can agree with but it is a universal generalization.

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Are Israel and the USA the enemy of mankind? I think so. http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Sep2006/herman0906.html

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>>>>I understand that these Zionist myths are essential for peace of mind. But they’re not true and conceal a horrible crime

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And the problem with the banality of right wing ideology is their only passion is to harm others. There is not much more evil in the world than ordinary Eichmann characters such as yourself.

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Spinoza was a rationalist, a radical who opposed shallow thinking. He was a precursor to the Enlightenment if you will ---and proposed that evidence as augmented by logic and reason could be a basis for a rational ethics. Neither he nor I countenance shallow immoral reactionaries such as Mitch. Where the fuck did you get the idea that I am anti Jewish? I am Jewish if not proud of it because of the fascistic way many Jews are behaving lately but still a large number of Jews are still on the left and have repudiated the Likudnik NeoCon Fascist ideology that …

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Good News, I went to an organizing meeting for the world cantwait.net and there are still a lot of Jews on the left who reject the ideology of disrespecting Arabs and Muslims and who believe in fair play. I trust many will be out demonstrating on Oct 5th. all over the country. Fight against the Likudnik, Bushite thieves.

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Hello Jorge, sorry but my Spanish is not good enough to converse with you. I suppose you are happy that the reactionary prevailed in Mexico but I think it only a tempory victory. We will see. History moves backwards and forwards but eventually progress prevails. Eventually fascism will be defeated.

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Our government is notoriously corrupt, just that the corruption is called legal bribery. There is a great deal of inequality but the poorest are a relatively despised minority. Political fascism is strong in our society and many of the potentially radical have been co-opted. However, there is a tradition of political liberty and as our liberties are taken away many people will be pissed. We have a capitalist system and it is always potentially unstable so the chances are about 60/40 against a revolt, but there is still a chance.

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Thank God for decent people like Dohrn and Ayers. Unfortunately America is not blessed by many more people like them. But unfortunately Fascism is on the rise still though --- it has meet with a bump on the road. In some respects we on the left also have to be thankful to Bush and Chavez. Bush is an easy person to attack because he is inept and repulsive and Chavez gives us hope that change in possible

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We don't live in a nonviolent world and most all violence is in the purview of the state and the far right. If you read the commentary on right wing sites like Free Republic or Little Green Apples (or something like that) they are forever advocating violence against groups and persons they consider their enemies. It seems to me that the left should be for fair play. If it is OK in general discourse for right wingers to advocate policies that will kill Arabs or Mexicans or who ever the rights's latest enemy is, then it should be equally justified for …

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It seems that Mr. Teach Peace accepts government/right wing stories at face value. Hint: every story that is probably improbable is probably improbable. Take them with a large grain of salt or you will be one of those people who will believe that the Serbs had set up rape camps or that Saddam used industrial sized shredders to dispatch his victims. Be very very suspicious of anything said about a leftest by a so called liberal or someone from an opposition group.

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A. J. Muste [Our task] is to denounce the violence on which the present system is based, and all the evil, material and spiritual, this entails for the masses of men throughout the world....So long as we are not dealing honestly and adequately with this ninety percent of our problem, there is something ludicrous, and perhaps hypocritical, about our concern over the ten percent of violence employed by the rebels against oppression. : A. J. Muste In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist. A J Muste was a pacifist but he …

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I agree with Talleyrand that war is a male problem and that woman should take a bigger role in politics. The trouble is that if and when a woman comes to power she will feel a lot of pressure to show that she has balls. Cindy Sheehan for President.

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Teach Peace, Intellectually I agree with you, but as a male who was somewhat small I was beaten up by the bullies. It is no fun to be beaten up. I always cheer when the little guy gets the opportunity to beat the crap out of the big guy.

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Thinking About Violence in Our Schools The violence in the schools, like conflict and violence everywhere, follows a model. The model presented here was developed by Stanford University Professor Rene Girard. It applies in general to conflicts at any level of intensity. It has 5 stages. 1. Mimetic Desire One party identifies an object of desire and other parties imitate that desire. Examples of things children and adults desire: respect, attention, money, happiness, power, land, jobs, knowledge. Whatever the culture tells us is desirable, that’s what people adopt as worth having. 2. Mimetic Rivalry Now the parties begin competing for the …

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The only way to stop the violence is to adopt the conscious goal of de-escalation and run the model backward. Giving up objects of rivalrous desire, avoiding the temptation of skandalon, avoiding alienation and scapegoating, avoiding authorized and sanctioned violence. Two years ago NATO visited authorized and sanctioned violence upon the Serbs. Thus NATO ran the global violence model forward toward more future violence. In Kosovo, the mimetic object of rivalrous desire was the right to use state-sanctioned violence to maintain the social order desired by those in power. In Kosovo, the Albanians were the outcasts being shunned by the Serbs. …

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The above discussion is one type of analysis of the origins of violence. I agree we have to be able to back off violence. But how, I can't see how it could be done

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Major major is correct in his response.

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Very true. And considering the terrible times we are living through now we still have much to learn. Please send this around the net. It is very important to fight the Brown Shirts http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15156.htm A Personal Declaration of Independence I refuse to accept as my government actions by the current administration and its obsequious servants, the Republican Congress and the Republican Senate. By William A. Cook “If there’s any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it’s flawed logic … It’s unacceptable to think that there’s any kind of comparison between the …

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More evidence that right wing scum ought to die,

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Every time right wingers lie and/or say killing peasants (or anyone else) is OK because it is in the national interest those people should be loudly and vociferously attacked. William Blum estimates that right wingers are responsible for killing some 30 million people in the "Cold War". People have to understand that right wingers are murderers even if they killed no one personally. There advocacy makes those murders possible. For example: The students at Columbia University were correct to storm the stage on which the minutemen were talking and unfold their banners. Further it it is not an argument that the …

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Well if you want to include the deaths attributable to communists, Mao and Stalin because major famines occurred on their watch and because their policies were to blame then we should blame the capitalist scum for all of the deaths caused by inequality which is in the order of hundreds of millions, The best capitalist is a dead capitalist

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HERE IS A GOOD RECENT ARTICLE ON DEATHS CAUSED BY CAPITALISM. http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/thatcher.html The reader should be aware that Treanor uses the term "liberal" to mean any apologist for capitalism in the European manner. ,,

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http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/thatcher.html Excess mortality, inequalities in life expectancy, and health inequalities in general are an ethical time bomb, for liberal market democracy. When we think of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot as the greatest killers in all history, we have got the wrong men. Their symbolic importance for liberalism is that they are so clearly non-liberal: it is not related to any objective scale of death. The Belgian Congo Company, a business and not a state, killed about 10 million people: their brutality bears comparison with that of the SS. But that is not the killing that is remembered in liberal-democratic market …

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The excess mortality - the most significant for the historical comparisons - is substantial. Is it not a statistical triviality. For the entire population of western liberal market democracies, about one-sixth of global population, it is certainly measured in millions. And that is only the internal excess mortality, without counting any deaths in Africa, for instance. Another study in Spain compared mortality rates in 2220 geographical areas, and estimated excess mortality at 10%, or 35 000 deaths a year. If these were sustained rates, Spanish market democracy has killed more people than the Spanish Civil War. (During the entire period covered …

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If you want to see how evil capitalism is compare the indices of health in China and India from 1950 to 1980. Despite the Chinese Famine caused by the cultural revolution. The death rate in India was higher due to inequality! Further, if you want to see the dramatic difference in poltical ideology and death rates compare the state of Kerala in India to the rest of India. Kerala had democratic government which was dominated by Socialists and Communists during that period and all of the health indices are higher there. Life expectancy is over ten years higher in Kerala than …

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>>>Chill out, Chipper. No one's gonna kill you.

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Hourglass is right, lets get rid of all the right wingers. And stop with the bullshit --- these people are right of center, often far right of center, not centrist. Roosevelt was a centrist. Henry Wallace was left of center (and not very). By European standards and by any reasonable standards most American politicos are far right wingers. Fascists are more liberal in Europe. And by the way, by most reasonable standards Lamont is right of center. Let's not make believe he is a progressive. Now that doesn't matter, what we need to do is move the dialogue left.

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Whattheheck illustrates my point.

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Time to get out in the streets and raise hell or we are going to live in a world shaped by nimnos like what the heck. \\Contribute a few dollars to the world can't wait website to defeat the Bushite fascists. Get out in the street and raise hell. http://www.worldcantwait.org/

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THE SEVEN RULES OF NATIONALISM 1. If an area was ours for 500 years and yours for 50 years, it should belong to us - you are merely occupiers. 2. If an area was yours for 500 years and ours for 50 years, it should belong to us - borders must not be changed. 3. If an area belonged to us 500 years ago but never since then, it should belong to us - it is the Cradle of our Nation. 4. If a majority of our people live there, it must belong to us - they must enjoy the right …

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>>>UNIFIL-was present on the Lebanon-Israel border since 1978. Is there any reason to think the current bunch will do a better job? Do they even have ammo in their weapons?

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> I am NOT a necon, as a long time active liberal I’m the farthest thing from it HE HE HE, this is a classic statement of so called "left" wing apologists for Israel and other reactionary policies like attacking Yugoslavia.. The classic case is Dissent Magazine which claims to be progressive but are actually right wing warmongers and champions of "humanitarian bombing". I used to be familiar with some of the neoCons when they were "leftists". They were hypocrites and liars when I knew of them in the 50's, Their anti Communism was barely distinguishable from Hitler or McCarthy. Many …

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> Hezbollah attacked Israel not the other way around, or have you forgotten? No it didn't, where did you get that silly idea? There was an on going conflict for years and most of the attacking was by Israel. Look it up! You would only believe that if you were an apologist for Israel. (Hell, Chomsky was visiting Southern Lebanon as a guest of Hezbollah about 3 months ago and they were buzzed by an Israeli drone over Lebanese territory). According to the Lebanese Israel overflew Lebanon on an almost daily basis).

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> And the difference between you and bin Laden is? Well thank you Mr. deChump for putting me in the category with a world class leader. I never thought I was so important as to rank with evil incarnate. But it is a shame that you are so ignorant that you don't know that there is great enmity between Hezbollah, Iran and Syria and the bin Ladenites. If you knew anything about the Middle East you would know that those entities hate bin Laden and think he is crazy. I bet you don't know that many in the Middle East consider …

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Hyjinx since you are a rabid Zionist I doubt I or anyone can enlighten you about the Middle East.

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> Suddenly, and following Saudi-Israeli-Bin Ladenite cooperation in Lebanon, Zionist organizations in the US changed their minds. They now declare that Saudi text books are filled with messages of love, tolerance, and cooperation. posted by As'ad @ 5:10 PM link I took this from the Angry Arab Web Site which is one of the best sites on the web to give insight especially on Lebanon. As'ad is very good at indicating hypocrisy of all types. He loves to go after idiots.

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> Whether those sects of Islamofascists hate each other or not is a moot point. Of course it isn't. You don't know what you are talking about.

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>>>grudges that are part of the fabric of a terrifying revival of anti-Semitism.

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>>>> Secure borders for Israel. Enforced by international peacekeepers. That means Israel will have to give up all ideas of a greater Israel. Not likely to happen. >>>An end to all terrorist attacks upon and within Israel, including an end to firing of katusha and other rockets from Gaza and Lebanon.. That means that Israel will have to agree to give up state terrorism and that is not likely to happen >>>Soverign Lebanese state control over all civil and military functions of Lebanon, including full enforcement of UN Resolution 1701 calling for disarming of Hezbollah. Who is going to disarm Hezbollah? …

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There are certain Jews who are doing great harm to Jews with their immoral and stupid hatred of Muslims and their undying loyalty to Israel no matter what Israel does. This right wing chorus has to be stopped. Muslims are people, Palestinians are people and they have rights and they deserve to be respected as all people deserve to be respected. Liberals should stop placating Jewish racism.

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The Israelis have this racist fear of Arab people which is why they hate the so called one state solution. However, if Jews want to stay in the area they are going to have to get accustomed to Arabs as neighbors with equal treatment and 0ne person one vote. No more Jewish state. Fair treatment for everyone.

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An analysis of the cause of violence. The violence in the schools, like conflict and violence everywhere, follows a model. The model presented here was developed by Stanford University Professor Rene Girard. It applies in general to conflicts at any level of intensity. It has 5 stages. 1. Mimetic Desire One party identifies an object of desire and other parties imitate that desire. Examples of things children and adults desire: respect, attention, money, happiness, power, land, jobs, knowledge. Whatever the culture tells us is desirable, that’s what people adopt as worth having. 2. Mimetic Rivalry Now the parties begin competing for …

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This is a must watch interview with Nasarallah. It starts about the middle of the program. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/28/1440244&mode=thread&tid=25

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> I don’t know why Israel has the right to rip up Lebanon and engage in massive eco-terrorism by bombing the fuel tanks attached to power generating facilities south of Beirut because of foolish, irresponsible statements made by the Iranian leader. This is the main excuse being used: Ahmedinijad’s inflammatory statements about Jews and Israel. The attacks on Ahmedinijad are lies and propaganda spread as a smear campaign by the Israelofascists. Please read: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14733.htm

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> This would be more of a benefit to Israel than to continue occupying land on behalf of 400,000 fanatical and racist settlers who do nothing for Israel but prevent the vast majority of the region’s people from enjoying the benefits of a lasting peace. < Israel doesn't want peace. At least the right wingers don't and they are in charge. They want a greater Israel. They might get it but only for a little while. The issue is whether or not fascism or democracy will prevail. People in the USA should be getting out in the street and raising hell …

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This is why Israel is considered scum throughout the world. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14753.htm http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14762.htm

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This is why Israel is hated almost universally. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14762.htm http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14753.htm

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This war is a disaster for Jews and Israel has become a source of embarrassment. The Likudniks and NeoCons are in need of retribution. God's Chosen People By Jostein Gaarder, 08/05/06 "Aftenposten " -- There's no turning back. It's time to learn a new lesson: We no longer recognize the State of Israel. We could not recognize the apartheid regime of South Africa, nor did we recognize the Afghani Taliban regime. Then there were many who did not recognize Saddam Hussein's Iraq or the Serbs' ethnic cleansing. We need to get used to the idea: The State of Israel, in its …

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Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon By Anders Strindberg 08/01/06 "Christian Science Monitor" -- -- NEW YORK – As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism. Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense. Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel's silent but unrelenting aggression against Lebanon, which in turn is part of a six-decades long Arab-Israeli conflict. Since its withdrawal of occupation forces from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Israel has …

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The situation in Gaza is horrendous and the people are in desperate straights. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14830.htm What can we do to help?

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But the policy is not in the interests of Jews and really not in the interest of Israel. It is a policy only in the interests of right wing fucks. These fascists believe in might makes right and this has been the American foreign policy since the so called cold war. There is a war but it is right vs left or more accurately force vs. reason. Fascism must be defeated. The Bushites/Likudniks must be defeated On October 5th we should try to start a major drive to drive out the Bush regime and all right wing ideology and that means …

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Crucial to this discussion is both Justice and Peace. A civil war is brewing in the USA and Mexico over the same thing, JOBS and the ruling clique that rules both countries. Right wingers have the guns now but they are outnumbered and are subject to getting killed like all other human beings. They are scum of the earth and they will not be tolerated. http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=33190

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Mexico’s current version of democracy not sustainable Jordan Trevino At midnight, as Sept. 15 becomes Sept. 16, Mexicans traditionally look to their president as he ritually rings a bell and swings the flag in commemoration of the Mexican war for independence. Usually, it is a night of celebration. This year, however, the event will be marked by political struggle as two factions continue to compete for the people's acceptance as a legitimate government: conservative President Vicente Fox and his protege, Felipe Calderon of the Partido Accion Nacional, and on the other side, Lopez Obrador of the left-leaning Partido de la Revolucion …

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Now Mexico's failure to provide livelihood and opportunity for millions of citizens has finally brought U.S. backlash in the form of unilateral legislation on immigration and the building of a fence across part of the border. Ironically, American corporations backed Calderon's campaign heavily as he promised "incentives for foreign investment." Blinded by greed for easy profits to be made in Mexico, they set the stage for increased migration into the United States. In addition, the Bush administration, rather than leveraging pressure for a recount, has backed the illusion of democracy and praised President Fox for the "strength of Mexico's institutions." Perhaps …

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I suspect that there are few people in the wider world (non USA/Israeli) who think the Israeli behavior justified, especially so with people who were paying attention to the sequence of events. I assume like many commentators that the motivation is to destroy Hamas and Hezbollah as a minimum goal and perhaps to destroy Syria and Iran as additional goals. As of now Israelimerikkka seems to want to attack Syria and Iran but all in good time. However, I think that before the end of the year a major world wide war will begin. Only yesterday there were reports that angry …

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I wrote the following comment some days ago: One doesn’t often associate the word stupid with Jews. C Wright Mills associated the word crackpot with American Foreign policy because of its counterproductive nature. It always created more enemies. American Foreign Policy has been mostly based on a militarist view of the world, that is, if there was a choice of policy Americans always carried the big stick and took the moral low road. I was in Israel during the Yom Kipper War. On Israeli radio they were playing Pete Seeger and Joan Baez and many other anti-war singers and on Arab …

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>>>It depends on whether we believe Israel has a legitimate right to exist. Did the "UN" (and England) have the right to give away someone else's land? And even if they didn't what should be done now that the land was given away? What does "exist" mean? Does exist mean the Nation state of Israel or the people of Israel living in a secular multinational state for example.? >>>Israel (?) realizes that for them to lose the “war” is to cease to exist No it doesn't and it has no reason to believe that unless you accept the Zionist argument that …

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Or we will all be defeated when we blow ourselves up

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This is a very important article and should be widely spread over the net, Especially the USA http://www.counterpunch.org/bricmont08122006.html

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Read this article, it is much fairer. The evidence is increasing that Obrador probably won by a reasonable number http://www.alternet.org/story/39763/ Question, why is it that so called liberals are more concerned about fair play for conservatives then for people to the left of them? I am not refering to this case alone but in general ---liberals want to sell out in most cases. Why do they believe that conservatives are better then , have a higher moral ground then leftists? Why are they so resentful and fearful of people agitating in the street? Now liberals claim they are the 1. guardians …

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A rather stupid article, it did not evaluate any of the charges to estimate their validity. It was typical right wing (liberal) propaganda. And yes the left is always fractured, nothing new there but it doesn't mean that Mr. Obrador didn't win legitimately. Today there was a tremendous rally in Mexico city and Obrador called for the beginnings of a revolution, something Mexico desperately needs. Too bad revolution upsets right wing liberals.

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OOPs another right winger falling out of the closet and more worried about traffic than social justice or honest elections. He is not even asking that all the votes be counted just the ones in the boxes. There is little doubt that he really won the election. What is refreshing is that he is standing up for his rights. Not like the idiot Gore. The dull witted Harvard graduate claimed victory too soon.

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This man, far from being a lefty Yea, he is a social democrat which is far from being a lefty but it is a very big improvement over the PAN.

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Mr. Diaz, there is no text for your last post.

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Mitch Cohen points out that the results of the Mexican vote/revolution will have an impact on the USA polity as it is widely believed that elections elections here were stolen by the right. In fact it is the view of the left that the right had planned a world wide coup by electoral fraud. The complete article would not fit and I recommend you go to the url for the complete article. Today's commentary: http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-08/01cohen.cfm ================================== ZNet Commentary Mexico Rising: Follow the Yellow Brick Road August 01, 2006 By Mitchel Cohen (Mexico City -- July 30, 2006) The sea of yellow …

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The following is a useful (good) discussion of the election/revolutionary situation in Mexico. http://revcom.us/a/060/mexico-volcano-en.html Basically the election was 50/50 with the powers that be manipulating the election so that the right winger would win. It is about time that people on the left speak up and not always acquiesce to their "betters". Leftists really do have an inferiority complex and somehow always think that somehow the right is justified in taking power. This is especially true of those disgusting people called liberals.

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I just reread the article by Lutton and I do have to say she is truly the disgusting type of liberal/right winger I truly hate. There are certain liberals you just want to bash in their teeth. Do others get that visceral reaction?

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Mr. Diaz, when an election is 50/50 it means there is no winner. Calderon did not win. The numbers were in the "margin of counting errors" and the Pan people had done some illegal maneuvers . I have read that most Mexicans (polled) believe ALMO won so why should he concede?

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By the Way did you read this article? Are there very many angry Mexicans as is argued? http://revcom.us/a/060/mexico-volcano-en.html

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By the way did you read this article? Do many Mexicans agree with privatizing oil and gas? http://revcom.us/a/060/mexico-volcano-en.html

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I agree that the Democrats won't take back either the Senate or House.. The reason however is gerrymandering and the advantage of the incumbent.. The left anyhow will have little influence as the "media" is in control of the zeitgeist and is militantly pro capitalist and split on liberal issues of civil liberties and their importance. For the left to have any influence we have to have an anti Fascist front. I mean by that opposition to militarism, nationalism, and capitalism in general. The issue is one of values, ethics! How can this be achieved? We need to talk to as …

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Another thing, we need much much more unity on the left. We need more people working together. I get three different groups sending me emails for peacedemonstrations and so on ---but not on the same day with the same themes. So far I have found that the "world can't wait" group seems most dynamic. United for Peace and Justice seems timid and International ANSWER doesn't seem to exist. Why isn't there one national dynamic peace group?

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People please watch Democracy Now July 12, Palest's story on the Mexican election. Sorry it doesn't matter if the election is fixed if the people are organized. WE CAN TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT AS LONG AS WE HAVE LEGITAMCY

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Have you people seen V for Vendetta? The lesson is, get guns and practice. especially if you are younger people

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Knocko is correct of course as I said. The issue in terms of ideology and the "climate of the times" is the control of the media. Counting votes is actually more than likely not the problem in the outcome of elections. The most important type of communication is word of mouth and if the general public is contaminated with only one view and false information from one view ---vote counting purity doesn't matter. What has to happen is that capitalism and capitalist ideology (might makes right, survival of the fittest) has to be defeated. One of the underrated causes for the …

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What is needed is that we Americans free ourselves from the plutocratic oligarchy that rules us. We need to be leftists with guns. http://www.3dweb.no/galleri/stuestolbm/bilder/anim1.swf

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Then they will continue to carry out the neo-conservative agenda in a kinder, gentler, neo-liberal way No, the Democrats are often worse.

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I am a registered Green also and I do find the Greens a bit wishy washy. But voting is just symbolic, that is, it is part of the zeitgeist. Voting doesn't change anything. What is needed is to overcome the despair of living in our culture and the climate that we live in. We need a bomb throwing anarchist conspiracy rather than an anarchist party.

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Malik3000, you are right of course, there is very little we can do except agitate, agitate agitate and realise that the chances of success are slight.. We just have to keep presenting ethical positions and arguing the logic of ethical positions and we have to do it even if we are driven to violence by the right.. That is why I recommend two movies. V is for Vendetta and The Last Supper (1995). Both promote the idea of violence against the right.. It has to be acknowledged by the Left that the right is always willing to use violence and it …

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BTW, when I say government I mean public agencies under "people power control", where appropriate local). In a true socialist society there should be next to no need for government (and its "police power" functions.

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BTW, I just heard an interesting report on Syria. Syria is a fairly ridgid society with a lot of government controls. However, spontaneously , due to the Lebanese emergency people are acting on their own and providing for the thousands of refugees without government supervision (but with government belated encouragement). It is during emergencies that people often pull together and do what they should be doing all of the time.

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> Republicans control the polling places and count the votes. This is not true. In all states that I am familiar with there are Democrat and Republican poll watchers. The American electoral system is fixed but the voting is not the major issue. I suggest some courses in Political Science for everyone concerned with politics of any type. The American electoral system favors an anti-urban right wing bias and a capitalist culture. (might makes right, survival of the fittest, the only good is profits and the all mighty dollar and so on).

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> This is perhaps the most profoundly contradictory statement I’ve seen. Ever. This is because you don't understand the Irony of life. Fascism is a violent movement that advocates violence. Can you please explain how you propose to stop a fascist movement such as American Imperialism? Or a quasi fascist party such as the Republicans? Further Do you think the Bush Regime will be stopped by ads in the NY TIMES or nonviolent street demonstrations? Can you explain at what point in history has this occurred? Any example will do as I can't think of one. All power comes out of …

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> It's no wonder we can't win an election. We are our own worst enemy. Elections are mostly worthless in a plutocratic oligarchy. The party of the filthy rich always wins or are you under false illusions? And in the USA this also means that the war party always wins. Are you good with constant wars in your name?

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WHERE IS THE PEACE MOVEMENT? WE SHOULD BE OUT IN THE STREETS DEMANDING THAT THE USA STOP FUNDING ISRAEL. FIGHT THE WARMAKERS FIGHT FASCISM

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WAY TOO MANY JEWS HAVE BECOME FASCISTS IT MAKES ME EMBARRASSED TO BE A JEW.

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THE SCUM POSTING HERE IN FAVOR OF WARMONGERING AND IMPERIALISM ARE VERY VERY SICK. And rather racist to boot; ---but then again many/most fascists are racist.

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Is there any moral justification in letting right wingers live? Why should they be allowed to bring misery to so many people? We need leftists with guns. http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/cowswithguns.php...

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Israel is denounced world wide. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14532.htm

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http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#115264752348608248

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WHERE IS THE PEACE MOVEMENT? WE SHOULD BE OUT IN THE STREETS DEMANDING THAT THE USA STOP FUNDING ISRAEL. STOP FASCISM STOP WARMAKING

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Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. And get out in the street and help drive out the Bushite junta. Struggle against fascsim. When we defeat fascism we can work on building socialism.

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Mr. Gordons article is good though I disagree with one point. Logically he is right that you can't blame all Jews for what some Jews do or say. I know that right wingers don't speak for all Jews. I know that the majority of Jews are not right wingers. HOWEVER, in the real world it does seem that all of the Jews are right wingers because of the vociferous nature of the defence of Israel and a refusal to grant personhood to Muslims/Arabs. I have posted on the Guardian Website and the pro Israel posters are an embarrassment. Further they claim …

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With regard to the term anti-Semite it really has no etymological root. It just means anti Jew. Hebrew and Arabic are both Semitic languages and they have many commonalities. Further, phenotypically it is often hard to tell the difference between Jew and Arab. When I lived on a Kibbutz for a while I only could tell the difference by cloths. The Arab workers wore long pants and shirts and the Israelis wore shorts. Of course many Jews are phenotypically European.

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Here is a good article on the term anti-Semite http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040202/klug

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What is so good about the Nation State? The Nation State is an anachronism. Ibsen was right. Jews and everyone else would be better off without nation states.

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parsimonious verbiage, i depone. On the other hand, you could have said that you would be brief and witty. I suspect all of us would prefer that!!!

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This is from a recent email and looks like a good thing. (b)United for Peace and Justice-NYC and the International Solidarity Movement-NYC present:(/b) NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE IN PALESTINE A NATIONAL SPEAKING TOUR ON THE PALESTINIAN/ISRAELI NONVIOLENT MOVEMENT: Palestinian AYED MORRAR and Israeli JONATHAN POLLAK Sunday October 16th, 7:15 PM: Catholic Center, 58 Washington Square Park South, Manhattan Ayed Morrar and Jonathan Pollak are friends and among the major figures in the Palestinian-led, Israeli-supported nonviolent struggle against Israel’s military occupation. Largely unreported by the media, thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of Israelis are waging a major grassroots nonviolent campaign of resistance to the …

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Jews and Arabs have to work together for Peace and Justice.

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> Do you think you could pledge your loyalties to the world at large??..I don’t think I could… And I don’t think many others could either! Why not? My first loyalty is to human kind. Nationalism, militarism and capitalism are outmoded ideologies based on greed. I do agree with you that Israel's ass needs to be kicked and the Neocons/Likudniks ought to be killed. I hate all right wingers and all flag wavers.

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This post is really on topic as the motivation of the Neo Cons/Bushites is to defend Israel. In my opinion they are making things worse for everyone including Israel. The struggle is against fascism. The only motivation for attacking Iran is to bolster Israel. This is morally wrong. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10651.htm

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> Ariarm’s Israeli public relations propaganda tirade is quite interesting in that it’s all an attempt to justify Israeli existence. Yes BUT, ---they do have a lot to be proud of. But morality has to have the highest priority. Worldwide we have to struggle against fascism. But more than struggle against fascism we have to struggle for a just world. I think this is Finkelsteins main point.

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I think the best solution would involve the abolition of Israel or at least the creation of a new single state. Please read this article. http://www.shalomctr.org/index.cfm/action/read/section/4th Year/article/article433.html

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> In a victory for nonviolence, Ayed led his community of Budrus in a peaceful campaign of 50 protest marches to stop the construction of the Wall on Budrus’ land. Jonathan has participated in over 200 West Bank protests and has helped to mobilize hundreds of Israelis to join Palestinians in resisting the Wall. Both Ayed and Jonathan have been imprisoned for their prominent roles in the nonviolent movement. Sometimes individuals can make a difference. I think there might be enough people of good will to over come reactionary governments. Who benefits from violence and hate and greed?

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So far not much has been accomplished. Would people here agree with Stephen Shalom's History of the conflict? http://www.zmag.org/shalom-meqa.htm

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http://www.amnestyusa.org/imagine/aboutimagine.html

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So what do you propose? All Israelis are filth?

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