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		<title>Protesting Israel-style</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/17/protesting-israel-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The email we received last week was dire. Our neighborhood was in grave danger of being ruined by unscrupulous real estate developers, it read. A massive 210-unit apartment project had been green-lighted to be built right in the middle of an already congested neighborhood.
The resulting traffic, pollution and just plain lack of aesthetics (the planned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austrians forget how Hatikva goes</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/16/austrians-forget-how-hatikva-goes/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/16/austrians-forget-how-hatikva-goes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People wonder why Israel is always on the defensive, when things like this explain it perfectly.
At an international fencing competition over the weekend in Austria, two Israeli teens &#8211; Dana Stralinkov, 14, and Alona Komarov, 13 &#8211; won the gold and bronze medals respectively.
However, at the ceremonies awarding them the medals, instead of playing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shalom Haver</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/15/shalom-haver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yitzhak Rabin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=14012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[riving down Jerusalem&#8217;s King David Street last night on my way to band practice, I passed an array of police vehicles and official-looking swanky cars ensconced in front of the David Citadel Hotel. Now, which foreign leaders are here now, I thought?
Then I remembered that the Sixth annual Saban Forum was taking place from Saturday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have any lessons been learned from Rabin&#8217;s assassination?</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/28/have-any-lessons-been-learned-from-rabins-assassination/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/10/28/have-any-lessons-been-learned-from-rabins-assassination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[14th anniversary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shimon Peres]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=13685</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday marks the 14th anniversary of the death of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin &#8211; certainly one of the cataclysmic events of Israel&#8217;s short history.
The divisions among the country&#8217;s citizens which led to Rabin&#8217;s assassination are still very apparent, with venom from both the Right and Left toward each other spouting freely without any attempt to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the children stay</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/14/let-the-children-stay/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/10/14/let-the-children-stay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Avishai Braverman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eli Yishai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign workers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=13446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There hasn&#8217;t been a more sensitive issue on the Israeli table the last few months than that of children of foreign workers. Over 1,200 children of non-Israelis &#8211; mostly from Africa, who have been working in Israel for the last decade &#8211; are in danger of being deported by the government, despite the fact they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice sentiments help Obama win the Nobel</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/11/nice-sentiments-help-obama-win-the-nobel/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/10/11/nice-sentiments-help-obama-win-the-nobel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coexistence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Steel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel peace prize]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went away for a few days camping and came back to discover that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel peace prize. I was so surprised that I wondered briefly if while I&#8217;d been away I had got stuck in some kind of time warp, and a whole year had gone by.
It seemed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different kind of tower on 9-11</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/09/09/a-different-kind-of-tower-on-9-11/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/09/09/a-different-kind-of-tower-on-9-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=12829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I may have been one of the few people to have almost totally missed the horrifying events of September 11, 2001.  
I was in miluim (reserve duty) and stationed at the military prison at the Megiddo  intersection on the way to Afula. It housed a couple thousand Palestinian security prisoners who were awaiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgia Sunday &#8211; 9-11</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/09/06/nostalgia-sunday-9-11/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/09/06/nostalgia-sunday-9-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=12492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In five days, it will have been eight years since September 11, 2001 and it looks like this year&#8217;s 9/11 anniversary is going to pass without much media fanfare. (Unless something happens, of course, and you know what I mean by &#8220;something&#8221;). So I thought I would finally share the story of what happened to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tel Aviv unwanted in Toronto?</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/09/06/tel-aviv-unwanted-in-toronto/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/09/06/tel-aviv-unwanted-in-toronto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Byrne]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ken Loach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bubble]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wallace Shawn]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=12759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[isguided protests from loopy bastions of the artistic Left over Israel&#8217;s policies regarding the conflict with the Palestinians have resulted in a new height of absurdity.
Some 50 artists, actors and filmmakers, including Jane Fonda, Wallace Shawn, David Byrne and filmmaker Ken Loach, have accused the Toronto Film Festival in an open letter of protest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refugee models</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/09/05/refugee-models/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/09/05/refugee-models/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=12721</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting item in Ha&#8217;aretz Gallery this week: The Tees Factory brand has put together a photography project/marketing campaign for its latest catalog, using African migrant workers from Tel Aviv in order to promote awareness of the campaign to deport them.
The catalog depicts four Africans, all of whom were found on Chelnov Street in South Tel [...]]]></description>
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