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<DIV><TT>Hey all,</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>Someone from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
sent me this today. If this is true, it does not bode well for the
situation in the US. And we at IMC-Israel decided to use an American server
because we thought that it would be more likely that we would be closed
down by the Israeli authorities than the American. Perhaps we
misjudged the situation. <BR></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT>Anyway, here is the info that we got:</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>FYI<BR><BR>Middle East Realities (MER.org) has been
suspended.<BR><BR>MER has been around since the early 90s providing some of the
best analysis <BR>and updates on the region available in the US. It's
based in DC and <BR>produces a local radio show. It's run by a Jewish
American activist, Mark <BR>Bruzonsky, who pulls no punches in his analyses of
the corrupt Arab client <BR>regimes, the racist violence of successive Israeli
governments and its <BR>representatives in Washington, the callous
interventionism and hypocrisy of <BR>successive US governments, and the
pathetically compromised, client <BR>(official) Arab organizations in the US.
A lot of folks around the world <BR>depend on it for its regular updates,
including me. But because it strongly <BR>criticized American policy in
the region, it's been suspended.<BR><BR>The internationally renowned peace group
Women in Black has also been <BR>harrassed and charged with "possible terrorist
links." This is demonstrates <BR>so clearly why I have never had much
respect for the intelligence of the <BR>FBI, the CIA or other intelligence
agencies. They're incapable of <BR>distinguishing between legitimate
peaceful dissidents and their opposites. <BR>The irony is that terrorist
groups have no interest in any links with <BR>dissidents, precisely because
they're out in the open and easily known by <BR>the authorities.</TT></DIV>
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