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Today was a long day! We started off at Yad Sarah in Jerusalem, a medical resource center for the elderly. My group spent the morning sorting bed parts so they could easily be turned into needed beds. We then drove to a nice picnic area in the park for lunch and then headed to a field near Kfar
Paige and her friends pick clementines with Leket
Schiller to pick clementines for an organization called Leket, which helps provide food for poor families. I actually did the exact project on EIE but it's always really fun!! We then visited JNF's 9/11 Living Memorial in Jerusalem, the only memorial outside of the U.S. to list all of the names of the victims of the September 11th attacks. It was beautiful and really showed how much Israel cares for the U.S. We then had some time in the Old City of Jerusalem for shopping and hanging out. We ended the day by going to the Kotel; I brought the notes from my hebrew school students and put them in the wall for them! It felt so good.
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The reading starts as Yaakov moved in to the land of Canaan. His favorite son, Yosef, brought him false reports about his brothers, accusing his brothers of various misdeeds. This was Lashon Hara on his part and also Yosef failed to judge his brothers favorably (Bereishit 37:2). The Talmud teaches us that the way one judges an individual, Hashem will judge the other person in retribution (Sota 11). Giving the benefit of the doubt in an average case is always good as Hashem will in turn give that person the benefit of the doubt in effect.
Yaakov made Yosef a multi-colored coat of woolen strips. This in turn triggered off further hatred and jealously by the other brothers. Yaakov was at fault for showing one of his sons favortism, the Talmud states that a father should not single out one child among the others (Shabbat 10b). Yosef furthermore increased his brothers jealousy by relating prophetic dreams of sheaves of wheat bowing to his sheaf, and of the sun, moon and eleven stars bowing to him, signifying that all his family will appoint him king (Bereishit 37:7).
The brothers really believed that Yosef was following the footsteps of their wicked ancestors, Esav and Ishmael and believed he was potentially a big problem in the family and resolved to execute him.
When Yosef came to Shechem at a later date to find his brothers at work, the brothers saw him from a far and relented and decided to kill him (Bereishit 37:18). However Reuven pleaded with them, to only throw him into a pit instead (Shabbat 22a), thus saving his life. In fact Reuven was in a period of repenting after a major transgression he performed in previous years, and many people use him as the benchmark on how an individual should repent if transgressing, he was sincere and repented out of love of Hashem, not fear.
Yehuda then persuaded the brothers to take Yosef out of the pit and sell him to a caravan of passing Yishmaelites, selling him off as a slave. Reuven returned shortly after, to find the pit empty and then rended his clothes, believing Yosef was dead.
The brothers soaked Yosef's multi colored tunic in goat's blood and showed it to Yaakov, who assumed that Yosef has been killed by a wild beast (Bereishit 37:31). Yaakov was absolutely distraught. In fact he morned for 22 years of what he thought was the death of Yosef, during which in all these years he did not have the divine presence resting among him unlike the other years of his life (Megilla 17).
Meanwhile, in Egypt, Yosef had been sold to a man named Potiphar, King Pharaoh's Chamberlain of the Butchers. The Torah reading then extraordinarily changes its theme and concentrates on Yehuda's journey as he moves away from his family; Yehuda married and had three sons. His eldest son, Er died as punishment for preventing his wife Tamar from becoming pregnant. Onan, Yehuda's second son, then married Tamar by levirate marriage (Yibum). He was also punished in similar circumstances. Then as Yehuda's wife died, Tamar resolved to have children through Yehuda, as at this point she couldn't marry anyone else as Yehudah still had a young son, whom he hadn't given to Tamar to marry. Eventually through Tamar making drastic action, posing as a harlot, she was intimate with Yehuda (Bereishit 38:18). The union between Yehudah and Tamar actually founded the Davidic line culminating in the Messiah. Tamar gave birth to a pair of twins, Peretz and Zerach (Bereishit 38:37).
Meanwhile, Yosef rose to power in the house of his Egyptian master, Potiphar. His extreme beauty attracted the unwanted advances of his master's wife. She continuously harassed Yosef, and he kept rejecting her, she even threatened him with humiliation and physical harm (Yoma 35b). Enraged by his rejections, she accused Yosef of attempting to seduce her, and Potiphar in turn imprisoned him (Bereishit Rabba 87/ Sota 36). Yosef did a great act by refusing to be with the wife of Potiphar, in turn he was given the title of 'Porat Yosef - Charm of Yosef,' as he was oblivious to the evil eye, since he did not stray after his eyes (Berachot 20/55).
Yosef then made a huge in impact in prison, changing many of the prisoner's lives and became a popular figure there. In the tenth year of his stay, Yosef successfully predicted the outcome of the dream of Pharaoh's Butler, who was reinstated to his position as Butler, giving a favorable interpretation.
However, the dream of Pharaoh's baker, Had a less favorable interpretation, resulting in the baker being executed. Due to his successful interpretation of the butler's dream, he requested him to inform his expertise of dream interpreting to Pharaoh (Bereishit 40:14), who in turn would release him from Prison, however due to his great trust in the butler, Hashem extended his prison tenure by another two years, totaling his prison sentence to 12 years, a year for each of his brothers he slandered and the two extra years for having a lack of faith in Hashem by trusting to much in the wicked Butler.
The Haftorah for this weeks reading is taken from the book of Amos, chapters 2 and 3 respectively (Amos 2:6-3:8). I would like to dedicate this Dvar Torah Rivka Bat Rachel, please everyone pray for her to find a suitable marriage partner.


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Ruler Of The World wins Derby
Ruler Of The World capitalised on the failure of hot favourite Dawn Approach to settle as the unbeaten colt provided Aidan O'Brien with his fourth Investec Derby.
Ruler Of The World wins Derby
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In what was a truly gripping Epsom spectacle, the impressive 2000 Guineas winner Dawn Approach became virtually uncontrollable for jockey Kevin Manning, even leading the field with at least five furlongs to go before tiring himself out and finishing last.
While Ruler Of The World (7/1) had looked like no better than a second-string for O'Brien and his Coolmore owners on only his third start, he came in for solid support in the betting and the positive ride from jockey Ryan Moore helped him last home a length and a half in front of the main British challenger Libertarian.
It was such a sedate gallop that Moore had made as much headway himself from the rear than perhaps he would have liked, lining up close to Ruler Of The World's stablemate Battle Of Marengo and O'Brien's son Joseph, who led when the last of Dawn Approach's energy ebbed away at the three-pole.
Moore made the decisive move inside the last couple of furlongs and was by now too far ahead of Libertarian, who had been trapped at the rear and did not descend the top of the hill with much conviction.
Battle Of Marengo, shortest in the betting of five O'Brien runners, lost two places close home, surrendering third to Galileo Rock in a photo-finish.
"I suppose the two we thought had the best chances were Battle Of Marengo and Ruler Of The World," said O'Brien, who played down suggestions of a tactical victory for the winner over the favourite.
"We always thought the world of Mars and the other horses but those two were at the top of the pecking order.
"We're just so lucky, we get these incredibly-bred horses and even before they are mated the dream is for this to happen.
"All the jockeys had their own plan and all the horses were doing their own thing and that is just the way it ended up.
"This horse was impressive in the Chester Vase and won like a very good horse."
O'Brien was reluctant to confirm Ruler Of The World for anything in the future, but said: "We'd love to go back to the Curragh (Irish Derby) but he's still only a baby. We'll talk it over with everyone."
Manning, who knows Dawn Approach better than anyone having won seven consecutive races aboard the chestnut, was taken aback.
"He was relaxed going down and there was no indication of what he was going to do," he said.
"We broke and then after 100 yards he started, it got competitive, as it does, he just lit up and basically bolted with me.
"I was a passenger and he took me completely by surprise.
"He got a bump but when I say a bump it just got tight, normal racing, and for whatever reason he just lit up and it was all over.
"We were going no pace so I wasn't going to maul him for a long way which was why I went to the front.
"I tried to get cover, that wasn't working so we went to the front but the damage was done by that stage.
"It has shocked me because he's never shown me those signs at home."
Trainer Jim Bolger confirmed this and said: "I doubt he'll be running over a mile and a half again."
Ruler Of The World ought to be good to have earned such a lofty name and John Magnier, master owner-breeder of Coolmore, said his wife Sue was responsible for the naming.
"They are all rated on pedigree and individually," he said.
"We get updates from Aidan week by week and then we decide.
"Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don't. We've had a lot of bad American presidents!
"This year has been more difficult than ever with the weather because they didn't know where they were with the horses, and if you try and find everything out at home, you are not going to win the Derby.
"Aidan thought if one of ours could beat Battle Of Marengo it was the one Ryan was riding. Obviously a lot of people thought so as he shortened up a lot."
Moore said: "It was a dramatic race. They went a very slow gallop early, I had to go back for cover and I could see the favourite hadn't settled.
"I had no option but to go on when I did, I knew he'd stay the trip very well but I got there a bit soon and he was very green.
"I knew the others were coming because I'd gone too early, but from then on he had to tough it out."
Sky Bet's Richard Horner said: "Dawn Approach proved too headstrong to run his race and give himself a chance of staying the trip and bookmakers will be pleased with that.
"A Ryan Moore-ridden winner though never goes unbacked and with Libertarian who was a very popular each-way selection on the day staying on for second and a Pricewise big-priced runner in third it certainly wasn't a skinner by any means."
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Alan Blueford Press Conference on Released Oakland Police Reports, 10/5/12: video & photos
With the Alan Blueford police reports having been released on October 2nd to the Blueford family at the Oakland city council meeting and online to the general public, a press conference was called for October 5th in front of Oakland city hall to address the information revealed in the reports, as well as what was redacted and not included. The press conference was originally scheduled to feature the Blueford family, but the anguish of reliving the death of their 18-year-old son through the police reports proved too much for a public appearance at this time. Standing in were long-time Oakland civil rights attorneys Walter Riley and Dan Siegel. (Full video below.)
[Pictured above: Walter Riley and Dan Siegel speak to assembled media and Alan Blueford supporters.]
Siegel and Riley noted that contrary to the initial OPD statements about the killing of Alan Blueford that there had been a gun battle, the police reports show no such thing. It was Oakland officer Miguel Masso who shot himself in the foot. Witness statements make clear that Alan Blueford had fallen and was on the ground struggling to get up when Masso shot him three times. Alan Blueford's last words were, "I didn't do anything." Siegel and Riley make plain that they believe the killing was a murder, when a police officer stands above and shoots down at an unarmed person on the ground below. Fear for his life or safety, that Masso likely claims as some sort of self-defense, can not be justified by the known facts of the case, only by Masso's racist fear of a young African American man.
Notably missing from the released police reports was a statement about the shooting from Masso himself. Also, there was no mention of whether Masso had his chest camera on at the time of the shooting, despite the fact that it is OPD policy that officers turn their cameras on during tense interactions with the public.
There remain many unanswered questions, such as at what point did Masso shoot himself in the foot, before or after he gunned down Alan Blueford. An Oakland forensics report declares that Alan Blueford's fingerprint was found on an ammunition clip found in the vicinity but not the gun police also found in the area, the gun that OPD claims was brandished by Alan Blueford prior to the shooting.
As for future moves for justice by the Blueford family and supporters, Walter Riley and Dan Siegel noted that final reports on the killing have yet to be issued by the Oakland police department and the office of Alameda district attorney Nancy O'Malley, even though the limited number of witnesses and technical aspects of the case have been known for months. Walter Riley says that the DA is often a hindrance to achieving justice in cases of Oakland police killing unarmed youth of color.
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text: First of all, I am curious as to why you are using OpenPBS? OpenPBS is quite old, and unless you have an extremely pressing need for using it I would suggest using TORQUE. TORQUE is based on OpenPBS, but has much better scalability, stability, features, etc. You can download it from http://www.clusterresources.com/products/torque. The steps for integrating Maui with TORQUE are the same as those for integrating with PBS. Next, I would recommend using a verbose name for the resource manager instead of just the number 0. Change it to something like "base" or "pbs": RMCFG[base] TYPE=pbs Second, try removing the second RMCFG line. Usually Maui can communicate fine with PBS without requiring a specific port or host. Also, what do Maui's log files indicate is happening after you start Maui? I would look there for some clues as well. -- Joshua Butikofer Cluster Resources, Inc. josh at clusterresources.com Voice: (801) 717-3707 Fax: (801) 717-3738 -------------------------- vesor at 163.com wrote: > I am trying to use Maui3.2.6p18 for OpenPBS2.3.16. > I followed the instructions in http://www.clusterresources.com/products/maui/docs/pbsintegration.shtml > > maui.cfg: > ... > RMCFG[0] TYPE=PBS > RMCFG[0] HOST=node10 PORT=15001 > ... > > I killed the pbs_sched and ran maui instead, but in PBS's log: > > 11/30/2006 21:08:06;0008;PBS_Server;Job;27.node10;Job Queued at request of slurm at node10, owner = slurm at node10, job name = pbstest.sh, queue = small > 11/30/2006 21:08:06;0001;PBS_Server;Svr;PBS_Server;Connection refused (111) in contact_sched, Could not contact Scheduler > 11/30/2006 21:09:06;0001;PBS_Server;Svr;PBS_Server;Connection refused (111) in contact_sched, Could not contact Scheduler > 11/30/2006 21:10:06;0001;PBS_Server;Svr;PBS_Server;Connection refused (111) in contact_sched, Could not contact Scheduler > 11/30/2006 21:11:06;0001;PBS_Server;Svr;PBS_Server;Connection refused (111) in contact_sched, Could not contact Scheduler


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Jungmann earns first win in a month
Brewers No. 3 prospect fans career-high eight in 7 2/3 innings
By Robert Emrich / Special to MLB.com | May 22, 2012 6:44 PM ET
The Brewers' No. 3 prospect recorded a career-high eight strikeouts and allowed a run on six hits over 7 2/3 innings as Class A Advanced Brevard County cruised past Charlotte, 9-1.
Jungmann's only mistake came in the second inning when he allowed a solo homer to Phil Wunderlich. The 12th overall pick in last year's Draft walked two in his longest outing as a pro. The win was his first since April 10.
"I had a good feel for all three pitches," Jungmann said. "I've been working on my breaking ball the last three outings. It's totally different, a different grip. I used my pointer finger as my spin finger, so I got rid of that and moved to a more traditional grip. Today was the best I've thrown it."
The 22-year-old right-hander has pitched well in his debut season, going 3-3 with a 2.90 ERA and 44 strikeouts over 62 innings. While establishing a couple of career highs, he was happier with the effectiveness of the new pitch.
"The stats are nice, but that's not what I'm looking for," Jungmann said. "The progress on the breaking ball is what I'm looking for. I've been trying to throw it the past three weeks, it just hasn't been very good. Today was the first time in a game it really showed up."
As for recording his first win in eight starts, the Texas native, said, "Well, that's not something I can worry about. It's about progressing every day, it's about getting the changeup and breaking ball going. Wins are nice, but it's about getting better every day."
Eric Arnett, a 2009 first-round pick, retired the final four batters as the Manatees won for the third time in four games.
Reggie Keen homered, doubled twice and drove in four runs, while Michael Walker was 2-for-4 with three RBIs for Brevard County.
Robert Emrich is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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|Document Type:
|Master's Thesis
|John M. Morton
|Email address:
|Adaptive Equalization for Indoor Channels
|Master of Science
|Electrical Engineering
|Committee Chair:
|Dr. Brian D. Woerner
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|Dr. Amy E. Bell
|Dr. William H. Tranter
|Adaptive Equalization, Indoor Channels, Wireless Communications
|Date of defense:
|August 3, 1998
|Release the entire work immediately worldwide.
This thesis describes the use of adaptive equalization techniques to compensate for the intersymbol interference (ISI) that results when digital data is transmitted over a multipath radio channel. The equalization structures covered in this work are the linear transversal equalizer (LTE), the fractionally spaced equalizer (FSE), the decision-feedback equalizer (DFE), and the maximum-likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) equalizer. This work also covers adaptive algorithms for equalization including both the least mean squares (LMS) and the recursive least squares (RLS) algorithm. All these equalizer structures and algorithms will be modeled using various simulation modules. Equalization for both stationary and mobile radio channels is considered. Stationary channels are modeled with a simple exponentially decaying profile. The mobile radio channel is represented using a two-ray Rayleigh fading model for an outdoor environment. The SIRCIM channel modeling tool is used to create channel profiles for an indoor mobile radio channel. Adaptive arrays and their similarities to linear equalizers are also studied in this thesis. The properties and performance of simple adaptive array systems using the LMS and RLS algorithms are examined through simulation. This thesis concludes with an in-depth study of the use of adaptive equalization for high-speed data systems operating in an indoor environment. Both stationary and slowly varying radio channels are examined. Simulations of DFE and MLSE equalizers operating in such a system show that both equalizer structures provide better BER performance over a system with no equalization. These simulation results also show that the MLSE equalizer provides better performance than the DFE in almost all cases, but requires a great deal more computations.
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The ESX System Analyzer download is a bit beefier, weighing in at 1.6GB. But pound for pound, this fling could prove extremely important in your virtual environment. The ESX System Analyzer was designed to help administrators with their planning process during a migration from ESX to ESXi. It does so by analyzing the ESX hosts in your environment by collecting information on factors that pertain to the migration process, such as:
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Published: December 21, 2009 at 8:56 PMThis is an incredible looking work of art when you are sitting along the boulevard of the Carolinas. Can not wait to get on board.
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Monitors Network
truth prevails
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E-mail: [email protected]
I. Introduction
The United States is threatening to pull
out of the planned United Nations Conference Against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance from 31st
August to 7th September to be held in South Africa, on the
pretext that discussions on whether �Zionism equals racism� will
derail the conference. As usual, Israel�s leading donor remains
unwilling to allow any criticism of the Zionist State of Israel, nor
scrutiny of its policies that are perceived to be racist. This is not
the first time the U.S. has intervened to save Israel�s ideological
skin. The U.S. has already boycotted the two previous annual UN
Conferences Against Racism due to the inclusion of discussions of the
role of Zionism in Israel�s racial policies.
Indeed, the current President�s father,
President Bush Snr., while in his term at the White House told the UN
General Assembly at its opening session on 23rd September 1991
that to equate Zionism with racism is to �forget the terrible plight of
Jews in World War II and indeed throughout history.� The former President,
whose son appears to be following meticulously in his footsteps, chose not
to elaborate on why the historic suffering of the Jews in Europe somehow
places the Zionist State of Israel beyond criticism with regards to its
racial policies.
In this case, however, U.S. pressure in the
form of threats to boycott the conference have been seconded by the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, who has similarly
stated her opposition to any discussion of racism in relation to Israeli
policies. White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said: �The United
States stands on the side of what is right. And the United States stands
on the side of principle. And the United States can stand on the side of
making certain that a variety of third world nations do not hijack a
conference that should be aimed at combating racism and under the guise of
combating racism turn this into a conference that itself smacks of
anti-Semitism.� Mary Robinson also said the UN had already dealt with the
issue at great length, and re-opening it could put the success of the
conference at risk: �I am acutely aware of the suffering of the
Palestinian people, and dismayed at the continuing toll of deaths and
injuries�[But] I believe that it is inappropriate to reopen this issue in
any form here� If there is an attempt to revive the idea of Zionism as
racism we will not have a successful conference,� she told reporters in
Geneva. She argued that the issue was resolved 10 years ago when the UN
repealed a previous General Assembly resolution equating Zionism with
II. U.S. Motives Behind Boycotting the Conference
But the vocal protestations of the
world�s leading superpower and rogue state, parroted by the UN High
Commissioner, can hardly be rooted in humanitarian concerns. This is
clear when we ask: Why should any particular country, state or
people be exempted from scrutiny with regards to their racial
policies? Surely, a World Conference Against Racism should be ready
to debate and scrutinize the racial policies of every nation in the
world. Indeed, it would be racist to say that racists can�t be found
among all the peoples of the world, that some race or group of
people are somehow above question.
Actually, there is good reason to believe that
once again, the United States is attempting to manipulate the process of
open discussion in an international forum to suit its own vested
interests. The longstanding interests behind U.S.-led Western support of
Israel as the principal Western client regime of the Middle East have been
explained by Israeli General Shlomo Gazit, former Military Intelligence
commander and West Bank Administrator. Gazit explicitly described Israel�s
role as protector of U.S. interests in the Middle East:
main task has not changed at all [since the collapse of the U.S.S.R.], and
it remains of crucial importance. The geographical location of Israel at
the center of the Arab-Muslim Middle East predestines Israel to be a
devoted guardian of stability in all the countries surrounding it. Its
[role] is to protect the existing regimes: to prevent or halt the
processes of radicalization and to block the expansion of fundamentalist
religious zealotry.
this purpose Israel will prevent changes occurring beyond Israel�s
borders [which it] will regard as intolerable, to the point of
feeling compelled to use all its military power for the sake of
their prevention or eradication.
Thus, Israel aims to impose hegemony on all
other surrounding states in the Middle East through military action. The
historic roots of Israeli policy in this regard are clear from the very
conditions which prevailed during the creation and formation of the State
of Israel. Since its 19th Century origins, the most prominent
pioneers of the Zionist movement focused on the goal of establishing a
specifically Jewish state in which Jews would be protected and privileged
over non-Jews. The Zionist occupation of Palestine began at a minimal
level (amounting to 10 percent of the population by 1900, and by 1947,
Jews were still only about 30 percent of the population of Mandate
Palestine. Although they owned only six percent of the land, the 1947 UN
Partition Resolution assigned 55 percent of the land to a new Jewish
state, without consulting the indigenous Palestinian population and thus
in violation of their right to self-determination which the UN Charter
itself purports to recognize. As a consequence of this forcible
international support of the Zionist penetration of Palestine, Israel took
over larger and larger expanses of land by means of the 1947-48 war,
culminating in the expulsion of around 750,000 Palestinians. It is in this
context that we can understand why, as Gazit points out, Israel asserts
its right to intervene militarily in any Arab state facing:
� threats of
revolt, whether military or popular, which may end up by bringing
fanatical and extremist elements to power in the states concerned. The
existence of such threats has no connection with the Arab-Israeli
conflict. They exist because the regimes find it difficult to offer
solutions to their socio-economic ills. But any development of the
described kind is apt to subvert the existing relations between Israel and
this or that from among its neighbors.
He thus elaborates on the implications in
relation to regional U.S. and Western interests:
In the
aftermath of the disappearance of the U.S.S.R. as a political power with
interests of its own in the region a number of Middle Eastern states lost
a patron� A vacuum was thus created, leading to the region�s instability.
Under such conditions the Israeli role as a strategic asset guaranteeing a
modicum of stability in the entire Middle East did not dwindle or
disappear but was elevated to the first order of magnitude. Without
Israel, the West would have to perform this role by itself, when none of
the existing superpowers really could perform it, because of various
domestic and international constraints. For Israel, by contrast, the need
to intervene is a matter of survival.[1]
This leaves us with the question: What exactly
are the objectives of imposing this sort of hegemony throughout the Middle
East on behalf of the Western powers? The answer to this can be discerned
from the observation of the U.S. Senate�s ranking oil expert, Senator
Henry Jackson, in May 1973. Jackson stressed the necessity of �the
strength and Western orientation of Israel on the Mediterranean and Iran
[under the Shah] on the Persian Gulf�. Israel and Iran were �reliable
friends of the United States� who, along with Saudi Arabia �have served to
inhibit and contain those irresponsible and radical elements in certain
Arab states... who, were they free to do so, would pose a grave threat
indeed to our principle sources of petroleum in the Persian Gulf�, which
are needed primarily as a reserve and a lever for control of the global
In other words, Israel is to play the role of
a regional proxy force serving to �inhibit� and �contain� the other Middle
East regimes by posing a constant military threat. Thereby, the entire
region remains under the hegemony of the United States in accordance with
Western economic interests in the unimpeded domination of oil. And this
entails ensuring that Israel is able to continue crushing any indigenous
or internal resistance to its policies of domination and control, without
international criticism, so that the Zionist regime can play its strategic
regional role without impediments from the international community. That
is why we find the U.S. consistently opposing efforts within the UN to
reveal the real character of the Israeli State � because to have the UN
officially recognizing the apartheid nature of Israel could potentially
result in the downfall of America�s principal Middle East guard dog, in
exactly the same way South African apartheid collapsed.
III. Internal Authoritative Commentary on Israel as a Racist State
Racists can be found everywhere, among
all people, including both Palestinians and Israelis. If
institutional racism is apparent even in Western democracies such as
the United States, the United Kingdom, and so on, then why should we
rule out the possibility of the same occurring in Israel? And why
should the possible role of certain interpretations of Zionism be
automatically assumed to have no role in this? Indeed, when
prominent Israelis themselves have noted the racist character of the
Israeli state in its treatment of Palestinians, it would be
nonsensical to attempt to prevent open discussion of this important
For instance, Ami Ayalon, retired head
of Israel�s domestic security service Shin Bet, spoke against the Israeli
policy of �separation� from the Palestinians at an annual meeting of the
Israeli Finance Ministry�s budget division last year. �Is the option of a
Jewish democracy with apartheid acceptable? In my view, it is not. That�s
a dilemma we�ve always wanted to delay.� He added that the Palestinians
should not be expected to be content living �in a Bantustan�, separated
from Israel, as well as from Egypt and Jordan �for security reasons�.[3]
He also observed: �The things a Palestinian has to endure, simply coming
to work in the morning, is a long and continuous nightmare that includes
humiliation bordering on despair� We have to decide soon what kind of
democracy we want here. The present model integrates apartheid and is not
commensurate with Judaism� We will never attain security without an
in-depth discussion about this issue.�[4]
The Los Angeles Times reported Ayalon�s
comments as follows:
[I]n public remarks
that shocked Israelis, a former head of the Israeli domestic security
service blamed government policies for triggering the Palestinian revolt.
Ami Ayalon, retired head of the Shin Bet security service, said Israel is
guilty of �apartheid� policies that go against the spirit of Judaism. He
suggested that the Palestinians were following a logic in choosing
violence, and spoke of the profound �humiliation� that Israel inflicts on
Palestinian workers and others who seek to enter Israel.[5]
The UN Conference Against Racism provides an
ideal international forum to openly and intensively engage with exactly
this issue, in the manner Ayalon indicated is essential for peace and
security in the Middle East. The role of Zionism in legitimising Israeli
policies that are racist should also be investigated. Unless the
international community is allowed to collectively scrutinise these
matters in an open dialogue, the human rights of Palestinians will
continue to be violated due to Israeli discrimination.
The Israeli human rights organisation,
B�Tselem (The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied
Territories), has similarly concluded that Israeli policies in occupied
Palestine amount to nothing less than apartheid. Executive Director of
B�Tselem Eitan Felner wrote in an article titled �Apartheid By Any Other
Name: Creeping Annexation in the West Bank� in an article for the French
journal Le Monde diplomatique based on an extensive B�Tselem
report, that Israeli settlement policies have been systematically
�reinforcing the system of discrimination in the West Bank�. Describing
what he labels �Apartheid in the Holy Land�, Felner observes:
The massive network of roads and highways in
the West Bank that connect the major settlements to Israel represents the
most overt aspect of Israel�s relentless efforts to incorporate the
settlements and settlers into Israel. It makes it possible for settlers to
commute to Israel each day� Another aspect of the integration of the
settlements into Israel - less conspicuous but no less important - is the
application of virtually the whole Israeli legal system to the
settlements. Throughout the years Israel�s civil and military authorities
have enacted a myriad of laws, regulations, and orders relating to
settlers in the Occupied Territories to ensure that in almost every
respect the lives of settlers are like those of Israelis living in Israel
The result, he writes, is the establishment of
a system of institutional racism against the indigenous Palestinians under
the alien regime Israeli military occupation:
Israel has
established a system of segregation and discrimination, in which two
populations living in the same area are subject to different systems of
law. While Palestinians are subject to military law and usually tried in
military courts, Israelis who commit the same offence in the same place
are subject to Israeli law and tried in civil courts inside Israel. Jewish
settlers enjoy all the rights of Jews in Israel, including complete
freedom of movement, speech and organisation, participation in local and
national (Israeli) elections, social security and health benefits, etc.
For Palestinians, on the other hand, even those living a few hundred
metres from Jewish settlements, freedom of movement is limited. They
cannot, obviously, vote to curtail the powers of the IDF and they do not
enjoy Israel�s social security or health benefits. In Africaans they call
it apartheid� [T]his institutionalised discrimination is spelled out in
the government�s basic guidelines.[6]
IV. Israeli Apartheid: The South Africa Analogy
UN Resolution 2106, adopted in 1965,
defines racial discrimination as �any distinction, restriction, or
preference based on race, color, descent or national origin.� As
noted by Jewish analyst Elias Davidsson of the Centre for Policy
Research on Global Justice: �When evaluating whether certain
conditions or practices constitute �racial discrimination�, it is
not imperative that intent is proved. It suffices that conditions or
practices have the �effect of nullifying or impairing� equality of
rights, regardless of the declared intent of those conditions or
By this definition, there can be no doubt that the State of Israel
is institutionally and officially racist.
1948, Israel�s Knesset has applied its state ideology � Zionism - in
a series of laws intended to formalise relations between population
groups within Israel�s recognised borders. This matrix of Zionist
laws has culminated in a regime that, by analogy to South Africa,
can only be described as �apartheid� in nature, due to their
establishment of separate classes of citizenship and civil rights
based on racial criteria.
In principle, Israel defines itself as a
�Jewish State�. In 1985, a Constitutional Law was passed by the Knesset
prohibiting the existence of a political party that openly opposes the
principle of Israel as �the state of the Jewish people�
or even
proposes to change this principle democratically. By this official
definition, Israel in fact �belongs to persons who are defined by the
Israeli authorities as �Jewish�, irrespective of where they live, and to
them alone. On the other hand, Israel doesn�t officially �belong� to its
non-Jewish citizens, whose status is considered even officially as
There are several other basic
(irrevocable) laws with discriminatory implications for non-Jews in
Israel. The 1948 Law of Citizenship, for example, establishes eligibility
for citizenship status, yet citizenship without �Jewish nationality�
grants few fundamental rights that are granted to Jews. The 1950 Law of
Return refers to the exclusive �nationality right� for Jews from anywhere
in the world to enter and live within Israel, and to claim a superior
legal status with full rights (such as those to land and housing) which
are denied to the indigenous Palestinians. Professor Anita Shapira of the
Department of History at Tel Aviv University comments that: �The Law of
Return gave preference to any Jew born in Britain or Morocco over an Arab
born in Jaffa and driven into exile as a result of the 1948 war� Arab
settlements have been short-changed and discriminated against for
The 1952 Status Law recognises certain �national� institutions operating
within Israel, and extraterritorially, as part of the government of Israel
to serve �the Jewish people� exclusively (e.g. the World Zionist
Organization/Jewish Agency, which is affiliated to the Jewish National
There are three other particular areas
in which Israel officially discriminates against Palestinians in favour of
Jews, these being residency, employment, and legal equality. With regards
to the first issue, of all the land of Israel, 92 percent is considered to
be the �inalienable property of the Jewish people� as per Israel�s
Development Authority Law. This means that 92 per cent of Israel�s land is
owned by the state and administered by the Israel Land Authority in
accordance with Jewish National Fund (JNF) regulations, which deny the
right of residency, to open a business and often to employment, to all
non-Jews solely because they are not Jewish. Yet Jews possess full freedom
to reside or open businesses throughout Israel without restriction. In
practice this means that Arabs are forced to live only in very limited
areas. Indeed, although Israeli Arabs are theoretically entitled to equal
treatment, in reality the regime ensures that their houses are demolished
to make way to build new homes for Israeli Jews, as and when is considered
JNF regulations also officially deny
non-Jews their right to work on land administered by the Israel Land
Authority. Although these regulations are not necessarily strictly and
continuously enforced, their existence indicates the institutionally
racist nature of the State of Israel. The Israeli authorities do, however,
periodically embark on �enforcement campaigns�, such as when the
Agricultural Ministry has attempted to stamp out �the pestilence of
letting fruit orchards belonging to Jews and situated on National Land be
harvested by Arab labourers�, whether or not they are citizens of Israel.
Jews are also forbidden from sub-renting their land, or a part of it, to
Arabs, for any period of time � and accordingly punished with heavy fines
if found to be doing so.[12]
The right to equality before the law is
also denied non-Jewish citizens of Israel by numerous laws which refer to
Jews and non-Jews respectively as �anyone who can immigrate in accordance
with the Law of Return� and �anyone who is not entitled to immigrate in
accordance with the Law of Return.� The late Jewish scholar Professor
Israel Shahak of Hebrew University, Chairman of the Israeli League for
Human and Civil Rights, a Holocaust survivor of a Nazi concentration camp
and a tireless campaigner for civil and human rights for over 30 years,
observes that: �Depending on the law in question, benefits are granted to
the first category [Jews] and systematically denied to the second
[non-Jews]� There are so many laws and regulations in Israel which
discriminate in favour of the persons defined as those �who can immigrate
in accordance with the Law of Return�.�[13]
Israeli Professor Uzi Ornan points out the
existence of other Zionist laws of the State which are discriminatory in
Blatant discrimination against non-Jews
can also be found in other laws dealing with the acquisition of property,
government support for young couples, educational curricula, and
government expenditure for schools, to cite just a few examples. The
routine means for enforcing discrimination is the ID card, which everyone
is obliged to carry at all times. ID cards list �nationality�, which can
be Jewish, Arab, Druze, Circassian, Samaritan, Kara�ite, or foreign. When
a person presents his ID card to a policeman, a security official, or to a
clerk at a government office whose services he requires, they can know
which �sector� he belongs to and treat him accordingly, or, refer him to
those who are responsible for dealing with his �sector�.[14]
That this has resulted directly from the
official ideology of the State, Zionism, is also apparent. Professor Ornan
admits that: �Apartheid is so powerful a mindset in this society, that its
existence and preservation is championed by all the members of the
�Zionist parties�, including those who believe themselves to be in the
vanguard of the struggle for socialism, peace and equal rights.�[15]
plight of Palestinians within the Occupied Territories has been compared
by many scholars to the plight of blacks under the apartheid regime of
South Africa. Indeed, a comparison between the conditions faced by blacks
in South Africa and Palestinians under Israeli occupation shows clearly
that, like South Africa in the 1980s, the Israeli regime has integrated a
system of institutionalised racism, or in other words, apartheid. The
British press, for example, acknowledges that:
If Palestinians were
black, Israel would now be a pariah state subject to economic sanctions
led by the United State. Its development and settlement of the West Bank
would be seen as a system of apartheid, in which the indigenous population
was allowed to live in a tiny fraction of its own country, in
self-administered �bantustans�, with �whites� monopolising the supply of
water and electricity. And just as the black population was allowed into
South Africa�s white areas in disgracefully under-resourced townships, so
Israel's treatment of Israeli Arabs - flagrantly discriminating against
them in housing and education spending - would be recognised as scandalous
There can thus be little
doubt over the stark similarities between the plight of the three million
Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and the darkest days of South
African apartheid. Permits must be obtained by Palestinians in the West
Bank and Gaza for almost every activity, including such basic freedoms as
traveling to another town or planting a fruit tree. Yet the issuance of
such permits is largely arbitrary, and thus frequently refused by the
Israeli authorities. Consequently, it is virtually impossible for the vast
majority of Palestinians to earn a living. A matrix of interlocking
mechanisms has resulted in ongoing land confiscations, stifling
restrictions on movement, and almost constant curfews, almost identical in
nature to the harsh conditions imposed on the black population of South
Africa by the white-dominated apartheid regime.
Israeli peace activist Jeff
Halper, Professor of Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University and Coordinator
of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, has described in
detail the web of mechanisms resulting in the systematic discrimination
against indigenous Palestinians under Israeli occupation:
Only a decade after the
fall of apartheid in South Africa, after we all thought we had seen the
end of that hateful system, we are witnessing the emergence of another
apartheid-style regime, that of Israel over the incipient Palestinian
state in the West Bank, Gaza and parts of Jerusalem. This, at least, seems
the likely outcome of the �peace process� begun in Oslo and continued, if
haltingly, at the July Camp David summit. Whether a Palestinian state
actually emerges from the Oslo process or Israel's occupation becomes
permanent, the essential elements of apartheid -- exclusivity, inequality,
separation, control, dependency, violations of human rights and suffering
- are likely to define the relationship between Israel and the Occupied
Professor Halper describes
�the matrix of control� imposed by Israel as �an interlocking series of
mechanisms, only a few of which require physical occupation of territory,
that allow Israel to control every aspect of Palestinian life in the
Occupied Territories.� This matrix, �similar in appearance to a Go board,
has virtually paralyzed the Palestinian population without �defeating� it
or even conquering much territory.� In the Japanese game of Go, one wins
by immobilizing one�s opponent, through a process of �gaining control of
key points of a matrix so that every time s/he moves s/he encounters an
obstacle of some kind.� The matrix is built of subtle interventions,
although �largely bureaucratic and legal�, remains �backed by overwhelming
military force, which Israel reserves for itself the right to employ.�
Forcible measures of control which can be taken against Palestinian
communities and individuals include �the extensive use of collaborators
and undercover �mustarabi� army units, administrative detention,
arrest, trial and torture.� Indeed, over 2,000 arbitrary �orders� �issued
by the Military Commanders of the West Bank and Gaza have been issued
since 1967, supplemented by policies formulated by the Civil
Administration, under the direction of the Ministry of Defense�
Today, 195 exclusively Jewish settlements
housing some 400,000 Israelis are sprinkled across the Occupied
Territories: about 200,000 settlers live in the West Bank, 200,000 in East
Jerusalem and 6,000 in Gaza (the latter occupying a fourth of the land,
including most of the coastline). The most significant development in
recent years has been the consolidation of small settlements vulnerable to
Palestinian demands of dismantling into settlement �blocs� of 50,000
people or more. The blocs control strategic corridors of the West Bank and
interrupt the territorial contiguity of the Palestinians� areas. Areas A,
B, C and D in the West Bank, areas H-1 and H-2 in Hebron, Yellow, Green,
Blue and White Areas in Gaza, and �open green spaces� of restricted
housing covering more than half of Palestinian East Jerusalem - there is
no freedom of movement between these four disconnected Bantustans.
A system of highways and bypass roads links
the settlements, creating additional barriers between Palestinian areas
and incorporating the West Bank into Israel proper. Ironically, the bypass
road project enjoys the tacit and misguided support of the Palestinian
Authority. �Security borders� - the thick web of closed military areas and
internal checkpoints in the Territories - enforce Israel�s declared policy
of �separation� from the Palestinians and further hinder Palestinian
Army bases occupy large tracts of land and
keep weaponry ready for reasserting control through brute force� Yet a
third set of control mechanisms, the most subtle of all, are those of a
bureaucratic or �legal� nature. They entangle Palestinians in
restrictions, which trigger sanctions whenever Palestinians try to expand
their life space. The West Bank and Gaza are permanently �closed�,
violating freedom of movement of people and goods and impoverishing the
Palestinian population. A system of permits causes, among other things,
prolonged separation of family members and limits work, travel and study
abroad. Building permits, enforced by house demolitions, arrests, fines
and daily harassment, serve to confine Palestinians to small enclaves.
Expansive �master plans� around settlements (in contrast to the tight
planning rings around Palestinian communities) allow Israel to contend
that settlement building has been �frozen� within the larger rings.
Planting of crops is restricted, and Israel controls the licensing and
inspection of Palestinian businesses.
To all of this must be added, of course,
the psychological costs of life under occupation: loss of life,
imprisonment, torture, harassment, humiliation, anger and frustration, as
well as traumas suffered by tens of thousands of Palestinians (especially
children) who witnessed their homes being demolished, saw their loved ones
beaten and humiliated, suffered from inadequate housing and lost
opportunities to realize their potential in life.[17]
It is this matrix of
control that has established apartheid conditions within the Occupied
Territories. Professor Ornan rightly observed in 1991 that �it is amazing
how closely the discriminatory laws of South Africa - which began to be
legislated in 1913 and which are now about to be abolished - resemble the
discriminatory laws which began to be legislated in the state of Israel in
Israeli correspondent Amira Hass has noted the dire consequences:
This control is what has enabled Israel
to double the number of settlers in 10 years, to enlarge the settlements,
to continue its discriminatory policy of cutting back water quotas for
three million Palestinians, to prevent Palestinian development in most of
the area of the West Bank, and to seal an entire nation into restricted
areas, imprisoned in a network of bypass roads meant for Jews only. During
these days of strict internal restriction of movement in the West Bank,
one can see how carefully each road was planned: So that 200,000 Jews have
freedom of movement, about three million Palestinians are locked into
their Bantustans until they submit to Israeli demands.[19]
This has been accompanied
by the consolidation, as opposed to reduction, of Israel�s illegal
military occupation of Palestine through the expansion of Jewish
settlements in receipt of privileges systematically and officially denied
to the non-Jewish Palestinian population. The ultimate goal of these
policies is the expulsion of the Palestinian people from their homeland
which is to become the sole property of the State of Israel and its Jewish
citizens. As recorded by Danny Rubenstein, �readers of the Palestinian
papers get the impression (and rightly so) that activity in the
settlements never stops�
Israel is constantly
building, expanding and reinforcing the Jewish settlements in the West
Bank and Gaza. Israel is always grabbing homes and lands in areas beyond
the 1967 lines - and of course, this is all at the expense of the
Palestinians, in order to limit them, push them into a corner and then
out. In other words, the goal is to eventually dispossess them of their
homeland and their capital, Jerusalem.[20]
Other organisations that
have studied Israel�s system of administration and related policies in the
Occupied Territories as well as within its own internationally recognised
borders, have come to similar conclusions. The New York-based NGO, the
Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), for instance, has found that
the �model of socio-economic, cultural and especially physical separation
between Jew and Arab� adopted by the Israeli regime, �derives from the
original Labor Zionist ideology that culminated in the 1948 military
expulsion of 90 per cent of the indigenous Palestinian population from
what became Israel.� Israel�s plan for the Palestinians, backed by the
United States among other bystanders in the international community, is as
Palestinians are to be separated from
Israel politically and geographically, linked only economically in the
form of cheap labor and captive markets. Arafat will be anointed president
of his cherished state on 90 per cent of the West Bank and Gaza. But the
population will remain confined in territorially non-contiguous bantustans,
encircled by and controlled through a network of Israeli settlements,
roads and military checkpoints, and subject to repressive PA security
forces. In return for Israeli sovereignty over the settlements, the Barak
camp has even floated the possibility of ceding sovereignty over Arab
areas in northern Israel, thereby ridding the state of 300,000 Palestinian
citizens. As the final element in this plan, over three million
Palestinian refugees will be denied their internationally recognized human
right to return to homes within Israel�[21]
The Middle East Department
of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) has come to
similar conclusions. Longtime U.S. Middle East expert and head of the
Middle East Project of the IPS, Jewish scholar Phyllis Bennis, points out:
If you are a Jew, you have exclusive use of
land, privileged access to private and public employment, special
educational loans, home mortgages, preferences for admission to
universities, and many other things. Many other special privileges are
reserved for those who have served in the Israeli military. And military
service is compulsory for all Jews (male and female), except for the
ultra-Orthodox who get the same privileges as other Jews, but excludes
Palestinians, who do not.
Over 80 percent of the land within Israel that
was once owned by Palestinians has been confiscated. All told, 93 percent
of Israel�s land can only be leased or owned by Jews or Jewish agencies.
Moreover, despite Israel�s booming economy, Palestinian unemployment is
skyrocketing - Adalah says it is about 40 percent. In 1996 twice as many
Arab citizens (28.3 percent) as Jewish citizens (14.4 percent) lived below
the poverty line. Less than five percent of government employees are Arab.
And eighty percent of all student drop-outs are Arab.
There are also vast disparities between Arab
towns and Jewish towns in government spending on schools, medical systems,
roads and electricity, clean water, and social services.
Unlike any other
country in the world, Israel does not define itself as a state of its
residents, or even a state of its citizens, but as a state of all the Jews
in the world. Jews from anywhere in the world, like me, can travel to
Israel, declare citizenship, and be granted all the privileges of being
Jewish that are denied to Palestinians who have lived in the area for
hundreds of years.[22]
In this exceedingly brief
paper then, we have seen extensive evidence that there is in Israel a
long-established system of apartheid that institutionalises racial
discrimination against Palestinians and other non-Jews, in both law and
practice. This system consists of an increasingly brutal and tightening
military occupation that utilises ethnic cleansing amidst a policy of
geographical division and socio-economic deprivation to further
marginalise the indigenous population. All this is pursued in violation of
an endless number of UN resolutions ordering Israel to halt the oppression
of Palestinians and cease its occupation of Palestine.
Collected here is only a
segment of the grim record and extensive documentation providing insight
into the nature of the Israeli regime and its racial policies. For the UN
Conference Against Racism to ignore this issue, as has been urged by the
U.S. and its lackeys in and out of the UN, is thus not merely dishonest �
it is complicity in an ongoing series of war crimes and crimes against
humanity conducted by a regime whose record of hate is far worse than the
unconscionable policies of the apartheid regime of South Africa. Our
responsibility is clear: to raise awareness of the facts; and to call to
account, and indeed pressurise, those in power who, in supporting and
conducting Israeli apartheid, are colluding in the convergence of the
Middle East region towards all out war, and thus further unimaginable
humanitarian catastrophes. We can learn from the example of South Africa,
just as we can be sure that the West has also learned. No self-respecting
member of the elite pulling the strings of the international regime doubts
the danger of people around the world recognising the reality of the
situation on the ground in occupied Palestine � which is why they are
afraid of entering into international dialogue over the issue.
We should not doubt the
danger either. On the contrary, we should use it in the way of peace and
justice, and in this path there is genuine hope.
Yediot Aahronot, 1992; cited in Selfa, Laura, �The US and
Israel�, International Socialist Review, Spring 1998. Also
see Chomsky, Noam, �The Middle East Settlement: Its Sources and
Contours�, in Power and Prospects, South End Press, Boston,
1996, p. 165 and Shahak, Israel, Open Secrets, Pluto Press,
London, 1997, p. 11.
Cited in Chomsky, Noam, Deterring Democracy, op. cit., p. 55
Ha�aretz, 5 December 2000
Ma�ariv, 5 December 2000
Wilkinson, Tracy, �Israel Hawk Considers Run at a Wounded Dove�, Los
Angeles Times, 5 December 2000.
Felner, Eitan, �Apartheid By Any Other Name: Creeping Annexation of the
West Bank�, Le Monde diplomatique, November 1999,
Davidsson, Elias, Memorandum on Institutionalized Racial
Discrimination by and in the State of Israel, Centre for Policy
Research on Global Justice (CPR), July 1993,
Shahak, Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three
Thousand Years, Pluto Press, London, 1997, p. 3.
Shapira, Anita, �Jewish identity, Israeli identity�, JPR Newsletter,
Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Spring 2000.
For brief discussion of these three laws see Schechla, Joseph, �Is
Zionism a Form of Racial Discrimination?: UN Debate Will Necessitate
Re-Examination of Resolution 3379�, Washington Report on Middle East
Affairs, November 1991, p. 35.
Shahak, Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three
Thousand Years, op. cit., p. 5
Ibid., p. 5
Ibid., p. 6.
Ornan, Uzi, �Apartheid Laws in Israel � The Art of Obfuscatory
Formulation�, Ha�aretz, 17 May 1991.
The Observer, 15 October 2000.
Halper, Jeff, �The 94 Percent Solution: A Matrix of Control�, Middle
East Report, 216, Middle East Research and Information Project, Fall
Letter from Uzi Ornan to Editor of Ha�aretz, published 10
February 1991.
Hass, Amira, �Israel has failed the test�, Ha�aretz, 18 October
Ha�aretz, 23 October 2000.
Normand, Roger, �The Iron Fist in the Peace Process�, MERIP Press
Information Note 33, Middle East Report, 4 October 2000. Normand
is Executive Director of the CESR. For further reports and analysis see
Elbaun, Max, Interview with Phyllis Bennis, �For Jews Only: Racism
Inside Israel�, ColorLines Magazine, 15 December 2000.
Mr. Nafeez Ahmed is a
political analyst and human rights activist based in London. He is
Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development and a
Researcher at the Islamic Human Rights
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It's been almost a year since OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network debuted on New Year's Day with much fanfare. A joint venture between Harpo, Inc., and Discovery Communications, it is a multi-platform media company designed to entertain, inform and inspire people to live their best lives. OWN's programming slate of original series reflects that commitment this fall. Every night Monday through Friday there's Oprah's Lifeclass, with life lessons and personal revelations from Oprah Winfrey herself, plus The Rosie Show, a new talkshow with Rosie O'Donnell. Other new primetime series include Don't Tell the Bride, Welcome to Sweetie Pie's and Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind, along with returning favorites Ask Oprah's All Stars and Our America with Lisa Ling on weekends.
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An inquisitive journalist, Lisa believes there is a desire to know what's going on in the world and our own backyard. "We want to know about the lives of the people who may live next door, or in another place just like ours. So we take you into these worlds that you may never have thought about before."
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