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	<title>the requisite blog title goes here &#187; Israel</title>
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		<title>listen up, Mr. President</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/listen-up-mr-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nice op-ed from the main paper in Israel.
America, stop sucking up to Israel
Did you know the US sends nearly 3 billion dollars to Israel every year (and money to other countries, actually) for military use, while continuing to grow the national debt?  Does this seem right to you?
Check out some money numbers here: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=350&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some good Daily Show conversation</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/some-good-daily-show-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have 15 minutes (and a decent Internet connection), check out a good Daily show interview about the Palestinian situation.
(In two parts): Anna Baltzer and Mustafa Barghouti
Part 1
Part 2
The full interview was significantly cut down a lot for the show&#8217;s TV run (more could have been shown by cutting the &#8220;Thank You&#8221; segment), so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=339&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>war crimes obviously a debbie downer</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/war-crimes-obviously-a-debbie-downer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a speech on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would not allow any Israelis to be prosecuted for war crimes because of their actions this past winter in the attack on Gaza.  (Full news story here: Netanyahu: No war crimes trials for Israelis)
OK, so obviously no one wants to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=327&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama gets Nobel: really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I came downstairs this morning, I was given the remote control and said I maybe wanted to check out the news: Obama getting the Nobel prize, NASA blowing up the moon, the Red Sox losing.  “Lots to catch up on,” I was told.
The NASA moon thing was weird enough, but did I hear correctly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=322&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>just take a look</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/just-take-a-look/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully I&#8217;ll soon not have to spend my extra time looking for a job and be able to post more regularly on here.  Until then, I&#8217;ll continue to try and do a little bit when possible.
Today, I want to show you some seriously disturbing video from the West Bank of a night of home raids [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=320&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the message moves forth slowly&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/the-message-moves-forth-slowly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 12:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moving (again) to a large city/metropolitan area, I&#8217;m now dealing with larger news outlets than the small circulation regional newspapers like The Crescent News I left behind in NW Ohio.  But even so, after reading this op/ed piece by Ariel Cohen in Monday&#8217;s The Baltimore Sun, I felt compelled to respond, hoping that my response [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=271&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>criticism of Israel still not an option</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/criticism-of-israel-still-not-an-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So just in case you still weren&#8217;t aware just how impossible it is for someone in the US, especially in the government, to criticize Israel, take a little look at this (short-ish) NY Times article: Israel Stance Was Undoing of Nominee for Intelligence Post.
A few excerpts:
&#8220;Mr. Freeman had long been critical of Israel, with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=241&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;unconditional support&#8217; for Israel questioned (damn straight!)</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/unconditional-support-for-israel-questioned-damn-straight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though it has similar thoughts to my previous post, you can read my letter to the editor for the Crescent-News (Defiance, OH) here or below.  I&#8217;m excited that more people will be hearing these truths (especially in such a part of Ohio as this!).
Many one-sided pieces regarding the current Gaza/Israel conflict have graced these editorial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=222&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>breaking the silence</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/breaking-the-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You only need to look at the size of the words &#8220;peace&#8221; and &#8220;Palestine&#8221; in the tags section on the right side of my weblog to realize that these two topics are very important to me.  However, you&#8217;ll also recognize that since Israeli bombing attacks on Gaza began on the morning of 27 December, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=218&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O Little Town of Bethelehem&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/o-little-town-of-bethelehem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; How still we see thee lie!&#8221;
Or so the Christmas carol goes.  Unfortunately, Bethlehem is not the peaceful and quiet locale it likely was 2000 years ago.  To travel between Jerusalem to Bethlehem, you must pass through a checkpoint to get through &#8220;the separation/apartheid/annexation wall,&#8221; not the most peaceful experience in the world (especially if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=211&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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