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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 10:40 PM Original message |
MESS Report / New cars, a sign of West Bank good life |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. Oh puhleeze. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 12:11 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. The West Bank is not Gaza. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 01:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. That would be the Birzeit University that the Israeli colonial authorities keep shutting down, |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 07:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 09:29 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Here is a counterpoint to this article |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 10:24 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Thanks for posting the counterpoint. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:18 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. "They proclaim with breathless wonder that Palestinian beer exists, and it's tasty." |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:34 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Not sure that is a fair characterization of what the NY Times article was saying |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 12:01 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I was not intending to characterize anything. |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 12:12 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Not yours - the author's (Ahmed Moor) |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 12:40 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. I agree that he doesn't like the article he links to. nt |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:17 AM Response to Reply #7 |
16. And here are counterpoints to Ahmed Moor's article |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:41 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Ahmed Moor really despises Abbas and Fayyad |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:58 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Yeah, Hamas is much more preferable to Fatah. Better to have an extreme Islamist theocracy |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 12:18 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. If elections were held today, Fateh would receive 45% of the participants’ votes, Hamas 26% |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
3. Poverty in the West Bank |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 04:31 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Ethnic cleansing by a thousand cuts, nothing more, nothing less. |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 09:30 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. That study was cited in an article by Ahmed Moor on The Huffington Post |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
9. What is a "MESS Report"? |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 09:45 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. About the MESS Report |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 09:58 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Ah, thank you. nt |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 02:37 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. In other words, a blog by two Israeli guys |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 07:53 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Avi Issacharoff has been the Palestinian and Arab Affairs Correspondent for Haaretz since 2005 |
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