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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 Map: The Story of Palestinian Nationhood Thwarted</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/03/16/the-map-the-story-of-palestinian-nationhood-thwarted-after-the-league-of-nations-recognized-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Juan Cole, Informed Comment, March 16, 2010
On March 10, I posted on the humiliation heaped on Vice President Joe Biden by the Israeli government of far-right Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu. Biden went to Israel intending to help kick off indirect negotiations between Netanyahu and Palestine Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. Biden had no sooner arrived than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Petraeus briefing: Biden’s embarrassment is not the whole story</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/03/15/the-petraeus-briefing-biden%e2%80%99s-embarrassment-is-not-the-whole-story/</link>
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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>March 21, 2010 Building Hope for the Children</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/03/10/march-21-2010-building-hope-for-the-children-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Commemorating the life of Rachel Corrie
Sunday, March 21
4:30-5:30 pm Silent Auction viewing and bidding
5:30-6:30 pm Vegetarian Dinner by Lulu&#039;s restaurant
6:30-9:00 pm Program
Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church
203 Wisconsin Avenue, Madison [Map]
A benefit dinner and program sponsored by the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project and Madison Playgrounds for Palestine.
Tickets for the dinner and program are $15 for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 18, 2010 Momentum for Gaza: A report on the Gaza Freedom March</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/03/09/march-18-2010-momentum-for-gaza-a-report-on-the-gaza-freedom-march/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo: Laura Durkay
Edgewood College
Predolin Humanities Center [Map], Room 307
Madison
7:00 pm
Josh Brollier, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence, will give a talk with slides about this historic January 2010 march where 1300 delegates from 43 countries tried to break the siege of Gaza from Egypt. 
Sponsored by Pax Christi, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, and Wisconsin Network [...]]]></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>A city that should be shared</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/03/06/a-city-that-should-be-shared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel builds still more facts on Palestinian ground, while stalemate persists
The Economist &#124; Mar 4th 2010 &#124; JERUSALEM

EVEN as the Americans strive to jump-start fresh talks between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli government has been using the hiatus to intensify the refashioning of East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians see as their future capital. This week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rachel Corrie&#039;s family bring civil suit over human shield&#039;s death in Gaza</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/02/23/rachel-corries-family-bring-civil-suit-over-human-shields-death-in-gaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents want case to highlight events that led to American activist&#039;s death under Israeli army bulldozer
Rory McCarthy,  guardian.co.uk, 23 February 2010
Peace activist Rachel Corrie died while protesting in front of a bulldozer trying to destroy a Palestinian home in Rafah in March 2003. Photograph: Denny Sternstein/AP
 Jerusalem &#8212; The family of the American activist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 23- June 5, 2010 Interfaith Peace-Builders Delegation to Israel and Palestine</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/02/21/may-23-june-5-2010-interfaith-peace-builders-delegation-to-israel-and-palestine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voices of the Peacemakers: From Roots to Reconciliation 
May 23- June 5, 2010
Delegation Leaders: Anna Baltzer and Cathy Sultan
Co-Sponsored with the National Peace Foundation

This delegation will explore Palestinian and  Israeli efforts to achieve peace and a resolution to their conflict based on  justice.  The delegation will feature  meetings with Palestinian and [...]]]></description>
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