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POPSIsraeli professor may be fired for opposing apartheid Certainly would make "academic freedom" farcical in Israel. Prof. Gordon wrote in LA Times that he did not want his children or the children of his Palestinian neighbors growing up in an apartheid regime; for this, he may lose his job. Is this the USSR? Click thru to add your name to emails to Israeli Ministry of Education.
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POPSThe real story on Clinton's Marc Rich pardon: Israel Israel was lobbying hard to get Rich off; Clinton was lobbying hard to get concessions from Israel for a peace agreement with the Palestinians. It almost worked. (Rich, BTW, has never used the pardon. Under its terms, if he returned to the USA, he would owe tens of millions in back taxes)
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POPSIs Bush Olmert's bitch? Some think so ... The USA, about to agree with the world on a UN resolution partly written by Secretary Rice, is stopped in its tracks by a phone call from Ehud Olmert to GWB. He gloats over Israel's power.
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POPSIsrael to open humanitarian corridor, then blow it up Also, "UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon said that while Hamas is undoubtedly a collection of grade-A psychopaths, firing home-made rockets is not quite the same thing as having a personalised bomb for every Palestinian man, woman and child."