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polar...
the map of settlements on the west bank is interesting.
the bigger one is even more swell.
in order for the obama administration to make headway, it needs to acknowledge the realities of life under occupation, the realities of what israel has been doing (with american support, tacit and explicit) in the west bank, in gaza---and jerusalem (even as this raises even more questions than does the settlement programs)...doing that means that israel is no longer viewed as some imperiled little state, but instead as a regional military superpower that presides over an illegal and brutal colonialism, that presides over a de facto apartheid system..
the iran bogeyman is self-evidently part of the way of framing israel as other than it really is.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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