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		<title>Michael Franti waxing poetic on new album</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From track no. 8 &#8211; Hey Now Now &#8211; on Franti&#8217;s new album:</p>
<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t let mistakes be so monumental, and <br />don&#8217;t let your love be so confidential, and<br />don&#8217;t let your mind be so darn judgemental, and<br />please let your heart be more influential.</p>
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		<title>Eric Hoffer on Israel from 1968</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This comment in 1968 by Eric Hoffer &#8211; author of The True Believer &#8211; was posted by Michale Ledeen on the National Review blog today.&nbsp; The world has held Israel to a terrible double standard, really since its establishment as a state.&nbsp; This quote from 1968 is as spot on today as it was then.&nbsp; There are numerous possible reasons for this, but the fact that it exists is indesputable from my vantage point.&nbsp; More to come on Israel in the coming days.</p>
<blockquote><div>The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.</p>
<p>Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese-and no one says a word about refugees. </p>
<p>But in the case of Israel the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel<br />
must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement<br />
of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other<br />
nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But<br />
when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace .</p>
<p>Everyone<br />
expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other<br />
nations when they are defeated survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967] he would have wiped Israel<br />
off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews. No<br />
commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth<br />
the paper it is written on .</p>
<p>There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia.<br />
But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him. The<br />
Swedes, who are ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam,<br />
did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent<br />
Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop<br />
trains to Norway. </p>
<p>The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources. Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel<br />
can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened<br />
last summer [1967] had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war<br />
to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general. </p>
<p>I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us.&nbsp; Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us.</p></div>
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