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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; Israel</title>
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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Olmert: Israel withdrawal needed</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/375</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Olmert: Israel withdrawal needed
Outgoing PM Ehud Olmert says Israel must withdraw from almost all the land it occupied in 1967 if it wants peace with Syria and the Palestinians.
He said this would include parts of East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.
Mr Olmert also said any peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shopping spree!</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/292</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[That (the subject of this post) is the New York Times&#8217; characterisation of desperate Palestinians, under a new burst of Israeli terrorism, attempting to obtain basics from Egypt:
Palestinians used a bulldozer to knock down another portion of the wall, originally built by Israel just inside Gaza, to continue their shopping spree.
At this point, I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving the children</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/268</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/268#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Without any hint of irony, Daniel Mendelsohn writes an Op-Ed in the NYT about the recent discovery of letters from Otto Frank:
A Family History Like Too Many Others - New York Times
Above all, such letters demonstrate movingly the overriding preoccupation that nothing was as important as saving the children. &#8220;It is for the sake of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hagelian synthesis</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/263</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/263#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crooks and Liars has video of Chuck Hagel (R-NE) laying it out to the Senate on Iraq and the [non-binding] Hagel, Biden, Snowe, Levin resolution against escalation. I guess it takes a Republican to say the things he does, such as point out that the reputation of the U.S is shot in the Middle East. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli buffoonery continues</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/172</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/172#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you get from the image of the most advanced and successful fighting force in the world to a pathetic joke, in the period of one month?
Israel holds Nasrallah
Publication time: Today at 12:26 Djokhar time
Unfortunately for the embarrassed Israelis, he was the local green grocer - not the head of Lebanon&#39;s Hezbollah group.
Leah Tzemel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Hezbollah</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/158</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/158#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing on AlterNet, Stephen Zunes traces the history and evolution of Hezbollah and questions the motivation behind the U.S congressional attitude towards the organisation:
Was Hezbollah a Legitimate Target?
The Bush administration and an overwhelming bipartisan majority of Congress have gone on record defending Israel&#8217;s assault on Lebanon&#8217;s civilian infrastructure as a means of attacking Hezbollah “terrorists.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nation on AIPAC</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/157</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/157#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What the AIPAC is and the danger that it represents should be well known by now, given that two of their operatives have been charged with that most unforgivable sin, espionage, but  that it is not (so known) is in itself a testament to its strength. Below is an excerpt from a recent Nation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billmon on the Israeli Lobby</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/146</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/146#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Billmon brings up the unmentionable (w.r.t the McKinney primary loss in GA):
Whiskey Bar: But the &#34;Israel Lobby&#34; Doesn&#39;t Exist:

Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney&#8217;s primary run-off opponent has tapped into the pro-Israel fundraising network . . . Seven pro-Israel PACs gave to Johnson on Tuesday: MOPAC in Michigan, Washington PAC in D.C., SUNPAC and National Action Committee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JC on Lieberman&#8217;s motives</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/145</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/145#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There has not been, to my knowledge, a lot of examination of the reason for Lieberman&#8217;s semi-suicidal embrace of the right&#8217;s Iraq war and that whole narrative (including the &#8220;undermining the President&#8221; bit). Juan Cole brings it up on his blog:
Lieberman&#8217;s Defeat:
[...]
Lieberman had bought into the Rove Master Narrative. Bush went to war electively, thus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternate fact-sheet on Hezbollah</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/143</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/143#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I came across:
Hezbollah not to blame for war, reports show
which provides an alternate viewpoint of Hezbollah, some known (if not in mainstream media) and others quite new (at least to me). I hope to do a bit of additional fact-checking on the info, shortly. Here are some of the highlights:

Israel routinely violates Lebanese airspace [...]]]></description>
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