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		<title>Pressure Obama to do more for Mideast peace</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/06/15/pressure-obama-to-do-more-for-mideast-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A just and lasting two-state solution
Editorial, The Capital Times, June 15, 2010
It is not often that a candidate in a tight U.S. Senate race actually says something significant about the Middle East peace process &#8212; or the lack of a process. Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Sestak has done so, with a call for the administration to [...]]]></description>
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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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				<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
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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>A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t)</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/04/28/a-middle-east-peace-that-could-happen-but-won%e2%80%99t/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch, April 27, 2010
The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange.  For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.  In this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal agreement on its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli defense minister says occupation must end</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/04/19/israeli-defense-minister-says-occupation-must-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#034;The world isn&#039;t willing to accept that Israel will rule another people for decades more. It&#039;s something that doesn&#039;t exist anywhere else in the world.&#034;
AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press, April 19, 2010
JERUSALEM – Israel must recognize that the world will not put up with decades more of Israeli rule over the Palestinian people, the country&#039;s defense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suddenly the &#039;special relationship&#039; is&#8230; embarrassing</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/03/16/suddenly-the-special-relationship-is-embarrassing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, March 15, 2010

My initial joy over the Biden insult was not misplaced. The Israeli blunder has catalyzed a new moment in the US-Israel special relationship and maybe, just maybe the beginning of the end. The lead thinktank of the Israel lobby today proclaims that US-Israel relations are &#34;perilous.&#34; AIPAC panicked last night. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Petraeus briefing: Biden’s embarrassment is not the whole story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Mark Perry, Foreign Policy, March 14, 2010
On Jan. 16, two days after a killer earthquake hit Haiti, a team of senior military officers from the U.S. Central Command (responsible for overseeing American security interests in the Middle East), arrived at the Pentagon to brief Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen on the Israeli-Palestinian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netanyahu defies U.S. over Jerusalem settlement</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/03/15/netanyahu-defies-u-s-over-jerusalem-settlement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Heller, Reuters, 15 March 2010
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected any curbs on Jewish settlement in and around Jerusalem, defying Washington in Israel&#039;s deepening crisis with U.S. President Barack Obama&#039;s administration.
&#034;For the past 40 years, no Israeli government ever limited construction in the neighborhoods of Jerusalem,&#034; he said in a speech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biden condemns new Israeli settlement plan</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/03/09/biden-condemns-new-israeli-settlement-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ARON HELLER, Associated Press, March 9, 2010
JERUSALEM – Vice President Joe Biden condemned an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem on Tuesday, casting a cloud over a high-profile visit that had been aimed at repairing ties with the Jewish state and kickstarting Mideast peace talks.
Israel&#039;s Interior Ministry said late Tuesday [...]]]></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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