Vol. VI, No. 11 November 2000
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Israel
by Jonathan Wallace
Here is the complete irony and duality of the Israeli condition: America sells helicopter gunships to the secular, who use them to end trouble started by the nationalist-religious right, whom the U.S. would never trust with helicopters.
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by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 12 year old Mohammed Al-Durah was murdered by Israel soldiers, not "caught in the crossfire." Please do not allow any instance of this whitewashing of his killing to go uncorrected. |
by the Israeli Peace Bloc Sharon has proven to the whole world that Temple Mount/Haram A-Sharif is a territory under occupation, a place where the State of Israel can assert its authority only by the use of brute force. |
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By Adam Keller It is the occupation which is the culprit, which breeds the hatred and the conflict. The victims - the Israelis and the much more numerous Palestinians - are all victims of the occupation. |
By Adam Keller and Beate Zilversmidt Nobody had really expected that there would be such an overreaction by the police, whose only response to what started with stone throwing was shooting to kill. |
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by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development. |
By Howard Fienberg The number of grotesquely violent video games has been increasing, letting young players slice the limbs or decapitate the heads of the 'bad guys,' fill their opponents full of bullets, or even incinerate them with portable nuclear weapons. |
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By Ben G. Price The rules of mass ensorcellment haven't changed much since the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth cast a spell over Elizabethan audiences. |
By Seymour Schechtman Many people need some sort of lifeline heavenward over and above their physical, material self. |
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Technology is not about anti-gravity, designer children, or new information channels merely. It is about the entire field of human subjectivity and how we choose to define and direct ourselves. |
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. |
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Copyright Jonathan Wallace 2000 except as otherwise indicated
Artist:
Laurie Caro;
all art copyright Laurie Caro 2000 except as otherwise indicated
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