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		<title>Razorwire over the Wadi</title>
		<link>http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/razorwire-over-the-wadi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Jewish State]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shakhaf returns home from school. Daddy, who recently returned from his reseve duty, asks how was her day. Shakhaf, who is in the first or second grade, says she has homework to do: answer the question whether Israel has a &#8230; <a href="http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/razorwire-over-the-wadi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ygurvitz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1433435&amp;post=28&amp;subd=ygurvitz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Offensive that Dares not Speak its Name</title>
		<link>http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/the-offensive-that-dares-not-speak-its-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[American Empire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war – Donald Rumsfeld &#160; Two days ago I happened to meet an Iran-affairs expert, who, to the best of my knowledge, was supposed to be in London. We discussed &#8230; <a href="http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/the-offensive-that-dares-not-speak-its-name/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ygurvitz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1433435&amp;post=27&amp;subd=ygurvitz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wandering in the Fog: Israelis and History</title>
		<link>http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/wandering-in-the-fog-israelis-and-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pamphlet is going around by email and forums, which warns Israelis of the dangers of celebrating the Sylvester (*). The pamphlet is replete with gross inaccuracies: for instance, it claims Sylvester I was a pope, while a more proper &#8230; <a href="http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/wandering-in-the-fog-israelis-and-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ygurvitz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1433435&amp;post=26&amp;subd=ygurvitz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Circling the Schools with Tanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who remembers Avigdor Kahalani from that most embarrassing period of his life – when he served as Minister of Internal Security – wasn’t all that surprised by his latest schtick. The teachers’ strike threatens harm to the commemoration project &#8230; <a href="http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/circling-the-schools-with-tanks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ygurvitz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1433435&amp;post=25&amp;subd=ygurvitz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Became an Enemy of the Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: This article, a polemic whose original and pretentious name was “Apologia pro fide sui”, was published in December 2006 in Nana News, after an Orthodox commentator charged me with anti-Semitism. He replied, and I replied again – I plan &#8230; <a href="http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/how-i-became-an-enemy-of-the-race/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ygurvitz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1433435&amp;post=24&amp;subd=ygurvitz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Won’t Fall Twice in the Same Hole</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knesset Member Zahava Gal’on (Meretz) wrote the Attorney General today, asking him to force the Prime Minister to report to the Knesset’s Foreign Relations and Security Committee on the IAF’s activities in Syria two weeks ago. This demand for a &#8230; <a href="http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/won%e2%80%99t-fall-twice-in-the-same-hole/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ygurvitz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1433435&amp;post=23&amp;subd=ygurvitz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judeo-Nazis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gevalt! A gang of neo-Nazis was discovered in Petah Tikva. Why, oh why did we import those anti-Semite Russians? So what if, in all likelihood, they came to the country as small children and grew up here - they’re truly &#8230; <a href="http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/judeo-nazis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ygurvitz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1433435&amp;post=22&amp;subd=ygurvitz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As the Old Trumpets are Blown Once More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the final preparations for Operation Greater Oranim, which would soon become the First Lebanon War, an ambitious young Major General Ehud Barak wrote a memo to the Minister of Security, Ariel Sharon. Barak considered the war plans to be &#8230; <a href="http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/as-the-old-trumpets-are-blown-once-more/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ygurvitz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1433435&amp;post=21&amp;subd=ygurvitz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The incitement is gathering steam</title>
		<link>http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-incitement-is-gathering-steam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, this is becoming worrisome. Such waves usually pass after a week. Not this time. MK Israel Hasson (Israel Beitenu) has submitted a bill, which will break the financial back of those the IDF has given up on. According to &#8230; <a href="http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/the-incitement-is-gathering-steam/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ygurvitz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1433435&amp;post=20&amp;subd=ygurvitz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s hunting season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not enough Tel Avivians were killed in the Second Lebanon War. And Tel Avivians are surely also leftists, and all the leftists are gays and derelicts. Fuck the mother of all those shitty Tel Avivians gay leftists, sipping lattes in &#8230; <a href="http://ygurvitz.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/it%e2%80%99s-hunting-season/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ygurvitz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1433435&amp;post=19&amp;subd=ygurvitz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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