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	<title>Comments on: Haaretz: Fayyad to Declare Palestinian Statehood Within &#8217;67 Borders</title>
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		<title>By: OLSEN: Changing Tides — Overview of 2009 in Palestine</title>
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		<dc:creator>OLSEN: Changing Tides — Overview of 2009 in Palestine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] According to Richard Silverstein, “It would embolden international institutions like the World Court to more energetically pursue claims against Israel.” It would enable the UN to take a leadership position rather than a backseat to the US. Israel would be further isolated, more vulnerable to boycotts, divestment, and sanctions. It could be “precisely the bucket of cold water needed to bring Israel (or at least the significant pragmatic segment within Israeli society) to its senses.” [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] According to Richard Silverstein, “It would embolden international institutions like the World Court to more energetically pursue claims against Israel.” It would enable the UN to take a leadership position rather than a backseat to the US. Israel would be further isolated, more vulnerable to boycotts, divestment, and sanctions. It could be “precisely the bucket of cold water needed to bring Israel (or at least the significant pragmatic segment within Israeli society) to its senses.” [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Mary</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am fed up with the Israelis scapegoating Hamas and using them as a reason not to deal with Gaza other than to slowly starve it to death.  Other than the suicide bombings of several years ago (and which have stopped) and verbal threats which are not much more than bluster, and their feckless rockets, there is nothing to consider them as genuine terrorists.  I see political machination here.  Hamas is willing to negotiate peace, but it is the Israelis who refuse.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am fed up with the Israelis scapegoating Hamas and using them as a reason not to deal with Gaza other than to slowly starve it to death.  Other than the suicide bombings of several years ago (and which have stopped) and verbal threats which are not much more than bluster, and their feckless rockets, there is nothing to consider them as genuine terrorists.  I see political machination here.  Hamas is willing to negotiate peace, but it is the Israelis who refuse.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Silverstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for expressing your concern about yr comments.  Your words made everything right &amp; you needn&#039;t worry about hurting my feelings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for expressing your concern about yr comments.  Your words made everything right &amp; you needn&#8217;t worry about hurting my feelings.</p>
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		<title>By: v sekhar</title>
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		<dc:creator>v sekhar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mr. Richard Silverstein! I&#039;ve opened my mail just a few minutes back and felt honored to receive your reply on my comment. I have acknowledged my poor knowledge on spread of Jews and their wealth in my comment itself. My christian (I don&#039;t have any religion actually) friends who appear to have knowledge of Jews and Judaism talk and plenty about Jews. Though I do not believe their statements totally, I keep them in my mind to cross check them latter when opportunity is at my hand. I should have checked their feed for proof before reproducing them it is. Any way I could find such statements untrue, now, from you.

Actually Mary was right when she said &quot;They are as much victims as everyone else.&quot; People are becoming ultimate victims for the mistakes of regimes and appropriators of productive forces. 

One thing is a fact for sure. i.e. whether media is in the hands of a Jew or a Christian or any other religion, It serves the interests of the haves but not havenots. It spreads mis-constructed stories in favor of top rung sections of the society known as &#039;manufacturing consent&#039; as Mr. Noam Chomsky said. (Am I right? I&#039;ve read 2 or 3 books written by him on middle-east and 9/11). 
A small request to you. If you have any documents or papers or anything in electronic format, please send me through e-mail for which I&#039;ll be thankful to you. 

I extend my sincere regrets to you If I hurt your feelings as a Jew.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Richard Silverstein! I&#8217;ve opened my mail just a few minutes back and felt honored to receive your reply on my comment. I have acknowledged my poor knowledge on spread of Jews and their wealth in my comment itself. My christian (I don&#8217;t have any religion actually) friends who appear to have knowledge of Jews and Judaism talk and plenty about Jews. Though I do not believe their statements totally, I keep them in my mind to cross check them latter when opportunity is at my hand. I should have checked their feed for proof before reproducing them it is. Any way I could find such statements untrue, now, from you.</p>
<p>Actually Mary was right when she said &#8220;They are as much victims as everyone else.&#8221; People are becoming ultimate victims for the mistakes of regimes and appropriators of productive forces. </p>
<p>One thing is a fact for sure. i.e. whether media is in the hands of a Jew or a Christian or any other religion, It serves the interests of the haves but not havenots. It spreads mis-constructed stories in favor of top rung sections of the society known as &#8216;manufacturing consent&#8217; as Mr. Noam Chomsky said. (Am I right? I&#8217;ve read 2 or 3 books written by him on middle-east and 9/11).<br />
A small request to you. If you have any documents or papers or anything in electronic format, please send me through e-mail for which I&#8217;ll be thankful to you. </p>
<p>I extend my sincere regrets to you If I hurt your feelings as a Jew.</p>
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		<title>By: Eurosabra</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eurosabra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Again, Richard, if Froman wants to risk it, he has my blessing.  The Islamic Movement within Israel is another group whose praxis belies the absolutism of some of its rhetoric, it is not impossible that Hamas could definitively annul the Charter when faced with governing a Jewish population.  Certainly the IM feels that because of its position as an avant-garde party in direct confrontation within Israel, it has flexibility and opportunities that Palestinian parties do not.  I think Hamas would find that unacceptable.

You can object, like Jules Roy, that I am preventing a possible future evil by preserving a certain present one.  I think Hamas will solve that question by refusing to deal with a solution that would leave it a minority party in Israel, and that Israel will avoid leaving a minority population in a Palestinian state.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Again, Richard, if Froman wants to risk it, he has my blessing.  The Islamic Movement within Israel is another group whose praxis belies the absolutism of some of its rhetoric, it is not impossible that Hamas could definitively annul the Charter when faced with governing a Jewish population.  Certainly the IM feels that because of its position as an avant-garde party in direct confrontation within Israel, it has flexibility and opportunities that Palestinian parties do not.  I think Hamas would find that unacceptable.</p>
<p>You can object, like Jules Roy, that I am preventing a possible future evil by preserving a certain present one.  I think Hamas will solve that question by refusing to deal with a solution that would leave it a minority party in Israel, and that Israel will avoid leaving a minority population in a Palestinian state.</p>
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		<title>By: Mary</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree, although the rest of the comment is spot on.  I am a Muslim but I do not blame the world&#039;s troubles on the Jews.  They are as much victims as everyone else.  I think Zionism is very destructive to the Jewish people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree, although the rest of the comment is spot on.  I am a Muslim but I do not blame the world&#8217;s troubles on the Jews.  They are as much victims as everyone else.  I think Zionism is very destructive to the Jewish people.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Silverstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;More than 90% of world media is owned by Jews, which produce nothing but lies for the sake of the Imperial regimes. Jews are spread to every corner of the world with lot of wealth.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Though I welcome your other statements, the above anti-Semitic rhetoric may be commonly accepted where you live, but not only is your claim untrue, it makes me extremely uncomfortable as a Jew.  These are views no reasonable person can accept.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>More than 90% of world media is owned by Jews, which produce nothing but lies for the sake of the Imperial regimes. Jews are spread to every corner of the world with lot of wealth.</p></blockquote>
<p>Though I welcome your other statements, the above anti-Semitic rhetoric may be commonly accepted where you live, but not only is your claim untrue, it makes me extremely uncomfortable as a Jew.  These are views no reasonable person can accept.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Silverstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Froman is discounting past and recent history.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
There have been Jews living in Israel or Palestine or whatever you wish to call it for centuries since the Second Temple period.  Froman has far closer relations with Hamas than you or I &amp; I trust his sense of whether he believes his plan is doable.  Of course, nothing in the Middle East is guaranteed.  It could a cropper.  But Froman has a damn sight more credible plan than the settler extremists.

&lt;blockquote&gt;this is totally the moral and philosophical calculus of groups like Hamas and Jihad, who regard the issue as a theological Jewish Question.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
I am relatively uninterested in Islamic Jihad &amp; don&#039;t believe they represent a credible threat to peace.  As for Hamas, your portrayal of the movements views are patently a fraud.  Yes, you can site the charter and you can cite a leader here or there over the course of two decades.  But you can&#039;t cite a senior Hamas leader who has said anything like this since Hamas has begun to talk about a tahdiya or hudna.

But nice try...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Froman is discounting past and recent history.</p></blockquote>
<p>There have been Jews living in Israel or Palestine or whatever you wish to call it for centuries since the Second Temple period.  Froman has far closer relations with Hamas than you or I &amp; I trust his sense of whether he believes his plan is doable.  Of course, nothing in the Middle East is guaranteed.  It could a cropper.  But Froman has a damn sight more credible plan than the settler extremists.</p>
<blockquote><p>this is totally the moral and philosophical calculus of groups like Hamas and Jihad, who regard the issue as a theological Jewish Question.</p></blockquote>
<p>I am relatively uninterested in Islamic Jihad &amp; don&#8217;t believe they represent a credible threat to peace.  As for Hamas, your portrayal of the movements views are patently a fraud.  Yes, you can site the charter and you can cite a leader here or there over the course of two decades.  But you can&#8217;t cite a senior Hamas leader who has said anything like this since Hamas has begun to talk about a tahdiya or hudna.</p>
<p>But nice try&#8230;</p>
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