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• US to differentiate between ‘personally displaced’ Palestinian refugees and their descendants

  
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  Palestinian refugee children, now counted separately from those "personally displaced" in 1948. (Photo: Zehra Hirji) Today the U.S. government approved a resolution to differentiate between Palestinians "personally displaced" in 1948 and their millions of descendants. The count will be conducted by the State ...
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• Senate fight today over the number of Palestinian refugees

  
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  Senate fight today over Palestinian ‘refugees’ Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian "refugees" or just around 30,000 -- a hot-button issue that has already become the subject of a vigorous international debate involving Israel and its Arab neighbors. When the ...
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• ‘Obama will only go as far on Iran as AIPAC permits him to go’

  
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  The other day the Senate unanimously passed an Iran sanctions act upping the pressure in an effort to preempt the talks now going on between world powers and Iran. Here (thanks to MJ Rosenberg) is AIPACs press release congratulating the Senate:  WASHINGTON — AIPAC applauds the Senate for passing the Iran ...
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• US, China To Hold Landmark Intellectual Property Adjudication Meeting

  
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  The United States and China will hold early next week what is becoming the largest bilateral programme between their courts in the area of intellectual property adjudication. Set to gather more than a thousand participants, the discussions will largely revolve around patent litigation, according to a top US judge. ...
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• Group Looks At Effects Of America Invents Act On Plant Breeders

  
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  CIOPORA, an international association of plant breeders, held its annual meeting recently with a focus on novelties in plant patents introduced by the America Invents Act, to become effective on 16 March 2013. Related Articles: America Invents Act Forges Ahead; Concerns Remain About First-To-File, Other Provisions ...
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• Honest broker? Israeli consulate sponsors Obama’s former Middle East peace adviser at Stanford talk!

  
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  Israeli consulates man Dennis Ross (center, in red tie) in the Oval Sept 2011 (White House photo by Pete Souza) Dennis Ross worked for Obama for several years on Middle East peace. And before that he worked for Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush too. But he was always accused of bias toward Israel. Aaron David Miller ...
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• Philip Roth on the Israel lobby

  
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  Philip Roth A couple times Ive said that Philip Roth talks about the Israel lobby in his 1986 novel, The Counterlife . Well it was a rainy night and the fire was going, and I did my homework.  The Israeli character Shuki Elchanan is a former press attache to David Ben-Gurion. He talks to the books American ...
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• If Obama really has things under control, then why the loose talk from CentCom’s Mattis?

  
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  Yesterday Eli Lake published a piece at the Daily Beast showing that CentCom commander James Mattis is is rattling the chain of command for a war in the Persian Gulf. Mattis, some of you may recall, dodged possible reprimand in 2005 for an anti-Taliban comment that went off the rails : You go into Afghanistan, ...
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• U.S. and Israel coordinate– and signal hard line in Iran talks

  
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  News of an imminent deal between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Tehran concerning future inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities was greeted with skepticism in both Tel Aviv and Washington .   This evening the Ha’aretz (Hebrew only) websites top headline read, “Western diplomat:   ...
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• Palestinian Authority and Israel on an arresting spree, children and activists detained

  
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  Detainees and Other Prisoner News Palestinians arrest 10 Islamic Jihad members Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, a local leader of the radical movement said. http://news.yahoo.com/palestinians-arrest-10-islamic-jihad-members-072842106.html ...
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• Biden meets major Israel lobby group at White House

  
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  Move along now. Nothin goin on here. From Zeke Miller at Buzzfeed Politics , yesterday: WH: Biden met today at the White House with representatives of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. And here is MJ Rosenberg saying that the three black politicians who lately broke with ...
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• A Sentence by the State Department Sentences The World to Disaster

  
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  RubinReports | By Barry Rubin Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh (Reuters)   I f I’ve ever seen a single sentence that spells disaster in the Middle East it’s this one: “’People say things in a campaign and then when they get elected they actually have to govern,’ [U.S. State Department] spokeswoman ...
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• Bill Kristol celebrates Republican Party purge of ‘oldfashioned Arabists’ Scowcroft, Baker and Bush I

  
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  Every time I go into the Jewish community to hear a discussion of the issue, I am reminded that the Jewish community on its own is incapable of moving forward. This week I am still reeling from seeing Bill Kristol hold forth at a debate at Bnai Jeshurun synagogue on the Upper West Side last Tuesday [a short portion of ...
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• Neocons in Washington Post: Military strike on Iran would ‘calm nerves in the region’

  
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  The Washington Post seems to think that the United States is not in enough overseas wars. It runs a piece by Matthew Kroenig and Jamie Fly urging us to pursue the military option with Iran. "On Iran, it’s time for Obama to set clear lines for military action." The excerpt below includes the shocking claim in my ...
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• South African artists, intellectuals and gov’t ministers take steps to isolate Israel

  
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  How long before South Africans are accused of being anti-Semites? South Africa to ban labeling West Bank settlement products as made in Israel, Amira Hass Minister of Trade and Industry says South Africa recognizes the State of Israel only within the borders demarcated by the UN in 1948. link to www.haaretz.com   ...
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• Feeling the hate in Long Island

  
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  Last month a poll showed that 62 percent of American Jews plan to vote for Obama, down significantly from the 78 percent who said they voted for him in 08. This decline is one reason Obamas White House site has a whole Jewish pander page. Mitt Romney obviously feels that he can take more Jewish voters from Obama-- ...
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• Pinkwashing and lifestyle liberalism

  
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  John Pilgers article at the  Information Clearing House , Never Forget That Bradley Manning, Not Gay Marriage, Is The Issue neatly underlines how belligerent powers in the west increasingly pinkwash their erosion of civil liberties.  Pilger reminds us that it was the Obama administration that "smeared [Bradleys] ...
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• WaPo’s Walter Pincus says US is ‘going above and beyond for Israel’

  
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  Last year, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus said the US must reevaluate aid to Israel in light of our countrys economic woes. Yesterday he revisited the issue and is aghast at the largess being thrown Israels way while the US economy continues to struggle. Pincus: Should the United States put solving ...
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• US Licensing Experts: Innovation Is Still Happening, Let’s Help It Along

  
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  BOSTON - Early stage innovation is still strong in the United States, but parties need to work better together and address bottlenecks in the middle stages, a panel of university and private sector experts said this week. Meanwhile, the president of global biotechnology company Genzyme said the industry is not in ...
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• Washington DC: Immune to the Financial Crisis

  
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  Attention: Our "Crash Alert" flag is flying. Dow down. Oil down. Yields down. Gold down. Whats going on? We drove into Washington, DC, to the Argentine embassy. Friends from Salta were hosting a wine-tasting. It seemed strange to see our Argentine friends - who live in a remote corner of the country - in our ...
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