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	<title>Madison Rafah Journal &#187; Israel Lobby</title>
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		<title>Israel Without Clichés</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/06/10/israel-without-cliches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We should not  forget that Gaza is another “democracy” in the Middle  East: it was  precisely because Hamas won free elections there in 2005  that both the  Palestinian Authority and Israel reacted with such  vehemence.
TONY JUDT, The New York Times, June 9, 2010

THE Israeli raid on the Free Gaza [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed: The U.S. should step back from its special relationship with Israel</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/02/16/the-u-s-should-step-back-from-its-special-relationship-with-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intelligence Squared US, February 9, 2010 
PRE-DEBATE VOTE:
FOR: 33%      AGAINST: 42%      UNDECIDED: 25% 
POST-DEBATE VOTE:
FOR: 49%      AGAINST: 47%      UNDECIDED: 4% 

Israel believes America&#039;s special relationship is vital. It is, certainly, to Israel. But what about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Voice for Peace launches The Only Democracy? campaign</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/02/11/jewish-voice-for-peace-launches-the-only-democracy-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jewish Voice for Peace, 11 February 2010
Midnight arrests. Defamation of human rights organizations. Expulsion of journalists. Human rights demonstrations broken up with violence. Censored films. Confiscated laptops.
That&#039;s just a fraction of the reality on the ground in Israel/Palestine that stands in contrast to the official story about &#039;the only democracy in the Middle East.&#039;
That&#039;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Judt: A Chronicler of the World Now Looks Inward</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Judt was a committed left-wing Zionist as a teenager. He spent summers in Israel on a kibbutz and was active in the Jewish youth movement. But he later soured on the Zionists’ utopian vision. As he recounts of the time he spent with young soldiers, “the insouciance with which they anticipated their future occupation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>54 in Congress who signed Gaza letter may now only be 53</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/02/07/54-in-congress-who-signed-gaza-letter-may-now-only-be-53/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 21, 2010 54 members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama calling for an end to the Gaza blockade by Israel and Egypt. You can thank Tammy Baldwin for signing this letter and supporting an end to the suffering in Gaza here.
Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, February 4, 2010
Israel lobbyists are calling the 54 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. suggestion of sanctions causes stir in Israel</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/01/10/u-s-suggestion-of-sanctions-causes-stir-in-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Heller, Reuters, January 10, 2010
JERUSALEM  – A U.S. peace envoy&#039;s suggestion that Washington could penalize Israel financially to force it to make concessions to the Palestinians drew Israeli ire on Sunday.
&#034;Under American law, the United States can withhold support on loan guarantees to Israel,&#034; George Mitchell said on U.S. television on Wednesday after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Appeal</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2009/12/31/us-campaign-to-end-the-israeli-occupation-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Only 0.4% of AIPAC&#039;s Budget
December 31, 2009
In 2008, the total revenues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) &#8212; the leading organization in the United States supporting Israeli occupation and apartheid &#8212; amounted to $70,676,421.
In that same year, the total revenues for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation &#8212; the leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a Home to Free Speech, a Paper Is Accused of Anti-Semitism</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2009/11/28/in-a-home-to-free-speech-a-paper-is-accused-of-anti-semitism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many letters and other commentary critical of Israel
JESSE McKINLEY, The New York Times, November 28, 2009
BERKELEY, Calif. — For the last six years, The Berkeley Daily Planet has published a freewheeling assortment of submissions from readers, who offer sharp-elbowed views on everything from raucous college parties (generally bad) to the war in Iraq (ditto).
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Debate Worth Noting</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2009/11/16/a-debate-worth-noting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. James Zogby, Arab American Institute, November 16, 2009
A story universally missed last week was the extraordinary debate that occurred in Congress in advance of a vote on a resolution against the Goldstone Report. It may have been that this story not seen as newsworthy as others playing out at the same time: the fallout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel &#039;personally attacking human rights group&#039; after Gaza war criticism</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2009/11/13/israel-personally-attacking-human-rights-group-after-gaza-war-criticism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch denies having political agenda or seeking funds from Saudi Arabia
Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 13 November 2009
The Goldstone report, which HRW supported, accused Israel of a disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population. Photograph: Hatem Omar/AP
Washington &#8212; America&#039;s leading human rights organisation has accused Israel and its supporters of [...]]]></description>
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