[Marxism] UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA

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UPDATE FROM THE
ELECTRONIC INTIFADA

_http://electronicIntifada.net_ (http://electronicIntifada.net)   
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Palestine :  Opinion/Editorial:

ABBAS' VILLAGE LEAGUE
By Arjan El Fassed, The  Electronic Intifada, Sep 10, 2007

For as long Palestinians have resisted  violent Israeli
policies against them, successive Israeli governments  have
tried to undermine Palestinian unity and foment divisions.
A  principal strategy has been to try to foster alternative
leaders willing  abandon fundamental Palestinian demands
for justice and focus on an agenda  with which Israel is
comfortable. EI cofounder Arjan El Fassed parallels  the
Village Leagues established in the 1970s with the current
system of  Palestinian "self-rule" that instead serves to
subcontract the  occupation.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8985.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8985.shtml)   

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Palestine  : Activism News:

ARCHITECTS PROTEST BROWN'S JNF PATRONSHIP
By Susannah  Tarbush, The Electronic Intifada, Sep 10, 2007

When Architects and  Planners for Justice in Palestine
(APJP) sent a letter to the new British  Prime Minister
Gordon Brown two weeks ago describing as "disturbing"  his
decision to become a patron of the Jewish National Fund
(JNF), this  was another example of the active campaigning
of this international pressure  group. The letter says:
"Your becoming a patron of JNF-UK can be seen as a  tacit
acceptance of an unacceptable status quo, and also places
you in the  position of not being an unbiased mediator in
the peace process." Susannah  Tarbush reports.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8982.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8982.shtml)   

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Palestine  : Multimedia:

AUDIO: CROSSING THE LINE INTERVIEWS PROFESSOR DON  WAGNER
Podcast, Crossing the Line, Sep 10, 2007

This week on Crossing  The Line: Host Christopher Brown
attends the Sabeel Conference in Berkeley,  California
organized by various North American Christian groups
working  for justice and peace in Palestine. Brown speaks
with Don Wagner, professor  of Middle Eastern Studies at
North Park University in Chicago, about the rise  of
Christian Zionism and its effect on the
Israeli-Palestinian  conflict.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8983.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8983.shtml)   

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Palestine  : Art, Music & Culture:

BOOK REVIEW: "THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND US FOREIGN  POLICY"
By Michael F. Brown, Institute for Middle East Understanding, Sep 7,  2007

The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by professors John
J.  Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt weighs in with 106
pages of endnotes. The  controversial tome challenging the
might of the pro-Israel lobby is  nonetheless accused of
"shoddy scholarship" -- much as when the authors'  shorter
paper on the subject in 2006 unexpectedly burst the bubble
of a  lobby unaccustomed to challenge and reprimand.
However, EI contributor  Michael F. Brown finds that the
heavy-hitting academics did not suddenly lose  their
intellectual acumen in penning this well-reasoned
criticism of the  Israel lobby.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8980.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8980.shtml)   

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