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	<description>Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East</description>
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		<title>Darfur, the Arabs and the Left</title>
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A reader emphatically recommends this piece by Marty Peretz in The New Republic. In a few short paragraphs, three grand themes emerge; the enormity of the genocide in Darfur, which is being documented as it happens; the minor importance, by comparison, of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and the unctuous discourse of Arab leaders who wax lyrical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/darfur-the-arabs-and-the-left/</link>
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		<title>Reasons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this piece in the Guardian Richard Silverstein comes to a  conclusion I agree with; the Gaza Fulbright scholars should be allowed to study in the USA. However, he  says some rather peculiar things along the way.

After exerting pressure on the Israelis, four of the scholarship recipients were permitted by Israel to leave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/reasons/</link>
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		<title>Holocaust Revisionism, SWP Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look at this leaflet and see if you can work out the omission.




That&#8217;s right. The Jews have mysteriously disappeared from the Holocaust.
So what was it: a typo? Or is it just another normal day at the pro-boycott, pro-Hamas Socialist Workers Party, the initiators of this petition?
Strange that they call themselves Trotskyists - I always thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/holocaust-revisionism-swp-style/</link>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Apartheid Analogy</title>
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Some scholars and activists are making the case that the &#8220;mingong&#8221;  - migrant workers who gravitate to the wealthy cities from poor inland provinces - are subjected to a form of apartheid in the People&#8217;s Republic of China enabled by the hukou system.

Around 7,000 of these workers, incidentally, built the Bird&#8217;s Nest stadium, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/chinas-apartheid-analogy/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Rich Jew&#8221; Returns</title>
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In 1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the leading postwar film directors and writers in Germany, wrote a play entitled &#8220;Garbage, the City and Death.&#8221; Set in a desolate urban landscape of prostitutes and seedy nightclubs, the play cemented Fassbinder&#8217;s infamy largely because of the inclusion of a character named &#8220;The Rich Jew.&#8221;

&#8220;The Rich Jew&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/the-rich-jew-returns/</link>
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		<title>Spell it out, Saeb</title>
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Saeb Erekat, the PA&#8217;s chief negotiator, is interviewed here by Laura L. Caro, the Jerusalem correspondent of ABC, the Spanish conservative daily newspaper. The gist of his remarks is that the supposed Israeli offer to cede 93% of the West Bank to the Palestinians, much talked about in the press in recent days, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/spell-it-out-saeb/</link>
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		<title>Nusseibeh: Time is Running Out for the Two-State Solution</title>
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There&#8217;s a long interview with Sari Nusseibeh in Ha&#8217;aretz. He says he still supports the two-state solution, but time is running out:

&#8220;I still favor a two-state solution and will continue to do so, but to the extent that you discover it&#8217;s not practical anymore or that it&#8217;s not going to happen, you start to think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/nusseibeh-time-is-running-out-for-the-two-state-solution/</link>
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		<title>Al-Aqsa TV Plumbs the Depths</title>
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Female passengers aboard the two ships travelling to &#8220;break the siege of Gaza,&#8221; be warned: should you get there, showing any flesh will be frowned upon by the Hamas masters of the territory.

Writing in today&#8217;s Financial Times about the Hamas controlled Al-Aqsa TV station, Tobias Buck notes that when &#8220;al-Aqsa broadcast live football matches during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/al-aqsa-tv-plumbs-the-depths/</link>
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		<title>Fashionable Nonsense Dissected</title>
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There is probably more fashionable nonsense talked about Israel and Gaza than any other aspect of the conflict.  If you look here you&#8217;ll find some aspects of this nonsense very ably dissected by Seán Gannon. My only quibble is that he says that Israel controls Gaza&#8217;s borders when in fact it is Israel and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/fashionable-nonsense-dissected/</link>
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		<title>The Return of the Neocons</title>
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Eamonn was saying in an earlier post that he hadn&#8217;t seen any left-wing demonstrations outside the Russian Embassy in Buenos Aires protesting events in Georgia. It&#8217;s a safe bet that there&#8217;s the same degree of invisibility in other metropolises.

But reading both Juan Cole and Seumas Milne today, I started to wonder whether these demonstrations might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/the-return-of-the-neocons/</link>
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