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	<title>Israeli Occupation Archive &#187; Others</title>
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	<description>Israel&#039;s War Against Palestine: Documenting the Military Occupation of Palestinian and Arab Lands</description>
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		<title>Ben White: &#8220;Anti-Semitism&#8221; smear is about targeting MK Haneen Zoabi, even though it uses me</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-26/ben-white-anti-semitism-smear-is-about-targeting-mk-haneen-zoabi-even-though-it-uses-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2012-01-26/ben-white-anti-semitism-smear-is-about-targeting-mk-haneen-zoabi-even-though-it-uses-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-Occupation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apartheid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haneen Zoabi]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the focus on my new book and writing, this was not about me; it is all about targeting a Palestinian citizen who is determined to use the legal means available to her in order to fight for her people - whether they are Israeli citizens, inside the Occupied Territories, or expelled refugees.]]></description>
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		<title>Salim Tamari on Palestine&#8217;s Ottoman past</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-29/salim-tamari-on-palestines-ottoman-past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-29/salim-tamari-on-palestines-ottoman-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salim Tamari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Salim Tamari discusses his recent book, <em>Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past</em>, and puts it in today's geopolitical context.]]></description>
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		<title>Hassan Jabareen: The right context</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-26/hassan-jabareen-the-right-context/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-26/hassan-jabareen-the-right-context/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international-law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeli law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeli Palestinians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The disingenuity of the Israeli government's international comparisons is evident when one compares politicians' rhetoric for audiences within Israel with the diplomatic discourse abroad. ]]></description>
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		<title>Gilbert Achcar: on the US Likudniks&#8217; racist smear campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-11/gilbert-achcar-on-the-us-likudniks-racist-smear-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-11/gilbert-achcar-on-the-us-likudniks-racist-smear-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Others]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nakba]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[US Likudniks, who had remained relatively restrained on [book talks] until now, could not stand it any longer. They launched a massive attack against me in the form of a smear article ... written by two Campus Watch vigilantes and first published on FrontPageMag... From there, the article was reproduced by countless websites and blogs belonging to the same ideological swarm, and distributed by them to their extensive email lists.]]></description>
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		<title>The Arabs and the Holocaust: an interview with Gilbert Achcar</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-10/the-arabs-and-the-holocaust-an-interview-with-gilbert-achcar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-10/the-arabs-and-the-holocaust-an-interview-with-gilbert-achcar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gilbert Achcar is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London; his latest work is <em>The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives</em>. Achcar discusses what he calls the “Nazification” of the Arabs, what implications this narrative has had on the past and present political situation in the Middle East, and some of the context from which anti-Semitism and Holocaust-denial has taken root in a segment of Arab society.]]></description>
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		<title>Abe Hayeem: Israel&#8217;s UNESCO fiasco</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-04/abe-hayeem-israels-unesco-fiasco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-04/abe-hayeem-israels-unesco-fiasco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnic cleansing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mamilla Cemetery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US-Israel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like thwarted spoiled bullies, both Israel and the US reacted with theatrical pique and fury. The US, never applying sanctions against Israel’s decades- long war crimes in Gaza and the OPT’s by suspending its steadfast cornucopia of billions in aid and arms, immediately withdrew its $80 million contribution to UNESCO as a collective punishment.]]></description>
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		<title>David Finkel: The UN and the future of Palestine</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-03/david-finkel-the-un-and-the-future-of-palestine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-03/david-finkel-the-un-and-the-future-of-palestine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BDS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The responsibility of the solidarity movement ... is not to get caught up in wonkish or wishful “one-versus-two-state” disputations, but to do everything we can to advance the bottom-up struggle where we are. This is all the more important because, while gains can be won now to get the occupation’s foot a little bit off the Palestinians’ neck, no lasting solution seems possible in isolation from a broader democratic revolutionary transformation of the region.]]></description>
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		<title>Zvi Barel: Israel&#8217;s ideal partners are in Gaza</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-02/zvi-barel-israels-ideal-partners-are-in-gaza/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-11-02/zvi-barel-israels-ideal-partners-are-in-gaza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PLO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The beauty lies in the way Israel divides the conflict with the Palestinians into separate battlefields to avoid a comprehensive diplomatic solution... [T]he results of the January 2006 elections in the territories brought Hamas to power and gave Israel the excuse to deprive the PA of its representation. The two parts of the Palestinian state became independent entities and by their own doing fulfilled Israel's desire to apply the principle of divide and rule. ]]></description>
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		<title>John Bunzl: Reading Bibi Netanyahu</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-10-24/john-bunzl-reading-bibi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-10-24/john-bunzl-reading-bibi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Netanyahu]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=32309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Netanyahu's UN speech includes a strange statement: "The settlements are a result of the conflict".  The blurring of cause and effect is a constant feature of dominant Israeli rhetoric...  And when he says, correctly, that the conflict began before a single settlement was established in the West Bank, he implicitly refers to the fact that, all along, the conflict' core was the clash between a settler movement (Zionism) and the original inhabitants.]]></description>
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		<title>Ellen Cantarow: Eyes in Gaza</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-10-05/ellen-cantarow-eyes-in-gaza/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-10-05/ellen-cantarow-eyes-in-gaza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDF/War Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international-law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDF/war crimes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=31943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong><i>Eyes in Gaza</i></strong> reminds us why Israel and the US have been terrified that Palestine's success at the UN would mean accountability for Israel. It shows why 80 percent of the Arab world considers Israel the world's most dangerous country, and why even certain policy-makers in high US places are beginning to mutter about Israel's being a liability to the US in America's current economic crisis.]]></description>
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		<title>Saree Makdisi: Palestinians&#8217; UN gamble could backfire</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-23/saree-makdisi-palestinians-un-gamble-could-backfire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-23/saree-makdisi-palestinians-un-gamble-could-backfire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abbas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=31785</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It goes without saying that Palestinians and Arabs are outraged by the idea that the United States is threatening to block recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations. What is less obvious, perhaps, is that some of the most vociferous critics of the Palestinian bid for upgraded U.N. recognition are Palestinians themselves. How could it be that advocates of Palestinian rights could be suspicious of, if not altogether opposed to, the U.N. gambit? Isn't the creation of an internationally recognized independent state the goal shared by all Palestinians? Not exactly. The Palestinian cause concerns more than merely statehood.]]></description>
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		<title>Neve Gordon, Yinon Cohen: The one-sided US veto</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-22/neve-gordon-yinon-cohen-the-one-sided-us-veto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-22/neve-gordon-yinon-cohen-the-one-sided-us-veto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=31764</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[The Palestinian] argument is straightforward: If the idea behind a two-state solution is dividing land among the two peoples, how can Israel unilaterally continue to settle the contested land while carrying out negotiations? Israeli unilateralism, in other words, has driven the Palestinians to choose the unilateral path. The only difference is that the latter's unilateralism is aimed at advancing a peace agreement, while the former's is aimed at destroying it.]]></description>
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		<title>Sandy Tolan: It&#8217;s the Occupation, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-22/sandy-tolan-its-the-occupation-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-22/sandy-tolan-its-the-occupation-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[permanent occupation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=31774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, for some Palestinians living under the 44-year occupation simply remaining on the land is a kind of moral victory.  This summer, I started hearing a new slogan: "Existence is resistance." If you remain on the land, then the game isn't over.  And if you can bring attention to the occupation, while you remain in place, so much the better.]]></description>
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		<title>Zvi Bar&#8217;el: US should recognize Palestinian state</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-21/zvi-barel-us-should-recognize-palestinian-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-21/zvi-barel-us-should-recognize-palestinian-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=31757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is colonialism in all its glory. After all, the United States agrees that there should be a Palestinian state, it even twisted the arm of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a little bit, cautiously so it wouldn't hurt, so that he would blurt out the necessary formula "two states for two peoples." ... After all, Arafat already recognized it. Palestine fulfilled all the threshold conditions. And still, this state has only one chance of being born the American way. Through negotiations that will lead to a consensual agreement and a handshake. And if Israel's hand is missing, never mind, the Palestinians will wait until it grows. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ameer Makhoul: The story of the watermelon and the forty prisoners</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-20/ameer-makhoul-the-story-of-the-watermelon-and-the-forty-prisoners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-20/ameer-makhoul-the-story-of-the-watermelon-and-the-forty-prisoners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zayd</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.israeli-occupation.org/?p=31745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, 24 June at 12:46 pm, the prison administration brought us, the prisoners, a watermelon. It was our first watermelon of 2011. According to the prison regulations, each prisoner gets 180 grams of fruit each day. It’s one of our basic rights.]]></description>
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		<title>MERIP: The Question of Palestine in miniature</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-17/merip-the-question-of-palestine-in-miniature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-17/merip-the-question-of-palestine-in-miniature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herein lie the most painful ironies of the PA’s 17-year existence, oft-stated, but still poorly understood in the West: As a non-sovereign entity, it must beseech its overlords for the trappings of autonomy. As the constable of its appointed domains, the PA must crack the heads of the Palestinians it claims to represent if they transgress the boundaries of official discourse. As a creature of the Oslo accords, it cannot transcend the terms of these agreements between an occupying power and an occupied people. No one can doubt who the arbiters of the agreements are: When Palestinians narrowly elected Hamas to head the PA in 2006, Israel and the US imposed a tight physical and diplomatic siege upon the Hamas-affiliated officers and their territorial seat in the Gaza Strip.   ]]></description>
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		<title>Max Blumenthal, Joseph Dana: The exclusive revolution &#8211; Israeli social justice and the separation principle</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-01/max-blumenthal-joseph-dana-the-exclusive-revolution-israeli-social-justice-and-the-separation-principle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mainstream of the Jewish public decided on its own, and without much internal reflection, that social justice could exist alongside a system of ethnic exclusivism. Thus, while the July 14 movement proceeded through cities across Israel bellowing out cries for dignity and rights, Palestinians remained safely tucked away behind an elaborate matrix of control — the Iron Wall. Ten years of separation had not only rendered the Palestinians invisible in a physical sense. It had erased them from the Israeli conscience.
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<font color="#C60202"><strong><em>IOA</em></strong></font> <strong>Editor:</strong> A very important article that puts Israel's July 14 protest movement in an historical context: the Zionist settlement in, and occupation of, Palestine — before and after 1967. So far, there is no evidence that the massive wave of Israeli Jews calling for "social justice" has any intentions of improving the lives of Palestinian citizens of Israel. And it is absolutely clear that ending the Occupation is not on its agenda either.]]></description>
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		<title>Mya Guarnieri: Language becomes a political weapon in Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-09-01/mya-guarnieri-language-becomes-a-political-weapon-in-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever a conflict between democracy and Jewish values arises, the new definition of Israel would allow courts and legislators to favour the latter. The proposed bill will also make halacha, Jewish religious law, "a source of inspiration to the legislature and the courts". And, in the spirit of favouring the Jewish character of the state over a state for all its citizens, the legislation would also downgrade Arabic from an official language to one with "special status".]]></description>
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		<title>Zvi Bar&#8217;el: The junta alliance</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-08-31/zvi-barel-the-junta-alliance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-08-31/zvi-barel-the-junta-alliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We liked military juntas in the Arab world, and in Chile, Argentina and Ethiopia. Military juntas speak a similar language. They understand one another; their interests are narrow and specific; they are scornful of civilians, certain that without them their countries will fall into chaos, and that civilian politics - democracy - is a recipe for the country's collapse. Juntas operate in the name of a desired value that is supreme to all other values: security.]]></description>
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		<title>Google Street View comes to Israel but won’t reveal its plans for the occupied territories</title>
		<link>http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2011-08-29/google-street-view-comes-to-israel-but-won%e2%80%99t-reveal-its-plans-for-the-occupied-territories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Google intends to operate Street View in occupied territory, it may face strong resistance from activists. Already activists are planning to organize demonstrations along the routes of the Google Street View vehicles, which must be published in advance according to Google’s agreement with the Ministry of Justice.]]></description>
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