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	<title>yaman's amateur ramblings</title>
	<link>http://www.yamansalahi.com</link>
	<description>i am not actually qualified to talk about these things.</description>
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		<title>Israel at 60</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If we have to pretend states have birthdays, we have to take the metaphor to its logical conclusion&#8230;

Apparently, Israel is turning 60.
You know what that means? Israel is only two years away from reaching the legal retirement age!
That&#8217;s right, maybe when it turns 62, Israel will finally pack its bags, move to Florida, and let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/05/07/current-events/israel-at-60/</link>
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		<title>Why does the Daily Cal print anti-Muslim advertisements?</title>
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For some reason, the Daily Californian yesterday printed an advertisement, shown above,  by the &#8220;David Horowitz Freedom Center&#8221; that alleged Muslim students around the country were &#8220;waging&#8221; a &#8220;stealth jihad on America&#8217;s college campuses.&#8221;
While the advertisement does contain a disclaimer &#8220;PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT,&#8221; probably to distance the views expressed from the newspaper itself, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/05/06/absurdities/why-does-the-daily-cal-print-anti-muslim-advertisements/</link>
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		<title>Barack Obama&#8217;s Charisma Will Save The World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Iran, Barack Obama says that the US needs to be careful about the use of force and must pursue other avenues, invoking George Bush and Iraq as foils to his &#8220;new foreign policy.&#8221;
When it comes to Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama says that Americans should not be quick to judge the man, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/04/20/absurdities/barack-obamas-charisma-will-save-the-world/</link>
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		<title>The democracy racket</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Too much anti-war sentiment in the United States focuses on the disastrous consequences wrought by American violence on the Iraqi people. Not enough pays attention to the sickening extortion of Iraqis&#8217; natural and material resources to cover the cost of crippling, starving, invading, occupying, and destroying their country.
This is the democracy racket: a fraudulent enterprise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/04/16/absurdities/the-democracy-racket/</link>
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		<title>Race in America: Clinton will leave it alone, Obama might talk about it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the back and forth between the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, I generally have had little to say. It is only today, with Clinton&#8217;s sneaky remarks about the so-called &#8220;controversy&#8221; regarding Obama&#8217;s pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, that I feel impelled to write about one way race has entered this campaign. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/03/25/comment/race-in-america-clinton-will-leave-it-alone-obama-might-talk-about-it/</link>
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		<title>Is UCPD collaborating with an anti-Fresh protest?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I received a report today that the letter on the left has been appearing on the footsteps of fraternity houses near UC Berkeley.
Attending perhaps their first protest ever, Berkeley frat boys will be gathering around the tree near Wheeler Hall on Friday to denigrate Fresh, the protester who has been living in the tree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/03/13/absurdities/is-ucpd-organizing-an-anti-fresh-protest/</link>
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		<title>Israel and Palestine, from the ground up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A peculiar phenomenon plagues many political engagements in this world, and talk about, from, and within Israel and Palestine is certainly no exception. Here I am referring specifically to the dumbfounded gaze many people are guilty of giving, perhaps unwillingly, when they are confronted with an incident in which the wrong people have&#8211;rather inconveniently&#8211;died.
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		<link>http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/03/07/comment/israel-and-palestine-from-the-ground-up/</link>
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		<title>The Daily Cal sterilizes the news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gee thanks Daily Cal, this really helped me understand what people were protesting about yesterday. It&#8217;s nice to know that students oppose &#8220;conflict.&#8221;


Actually, Daily Cal, yesterday students participated in a die-in in solidarity with the 116 Palestinians that the Israeli army killed over the weekend in Gaza. We did not stand against &#8220;conflict,&#8221; but the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/03/04/absurdities/the-daily-cal-sterilizes-the-news/</link>
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		<title>Tikvah: Students for Israel&#8217;s false hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, members of Students for Justice in Palestine held a die-in on campus in solidarity with the people of Gaza, 116 of whom were killed by Israeli attacks over the past few days.
In typical fashion, a small number of people from the new organization Tikvah: Students for Israel appeared to counter-protest. Their counter-protest consisted of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/03/04/absurdities/tikvah-students-for-israels-false-hope/</link>
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		<title>Can UC change? Supporting the tree-sit at UC Berkeley</title>
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Playing off of a recent UC Berkeley marketing campaign, two students have commenced a tree-sit on campus, pictured to the left, asking: can UC change?
The answer to one variation of that question answers the second. If you can see change, UC can change.
While I doubt it will be longer than a few days before the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/02/27/current-events/can-uc-change-supporting-the-tree-sit-at-uc-berkeley/</link>
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