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I am so pleased to finally have subscribed to an articulate,
worthwhile, courageous journal and staff.

        Betty Molchany
        ADC Legal Counsel
        Alexandria, VA
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I read your comment about ADC before and I thought you were little
hard on them.  However, I recently found out as I was participating
in the protests against the Zionist movie "Seige", that ADC had
awarded Tony Shalhoub an award in its latest convention.  Tony
Shalhoub is an actor in the movie who sold his soul for a handful
of dollars against his people, and who had given Hollywood the
appearance of objectivity when they placed this jerk in the movie.
Then, I realized you were right.

      Khalil (Nov)
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MER:
You are doing excellent work.

     Ian Manuel Urbina
     University of Chicago
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Dear MER,

Thanks for the information regarding the apartheid mapping of
Palestine.  It's always great to receive your messages because
I know its one of the only sources of accurate reporting on
Palestine...

        Sincerely,
        Catherine Cook
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I just saw the new 'Apartheid' Israeli maps. I'm a student at Lewis &
Clark College(Portland, OR), and am part of the Amnesty International
group on campus...  Thanks in advance for your help, and keep up the
fantastic work!!

        David Gekiere
       Lewis & Clark College
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What are you trying to do?
I see MER everywhere!

     Edward Said
     Columbia University
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The tragedy of the Palestinian peple is something that we understand
abstractly, but I don't know if any of us can grasp the extent of
their defeat, suffering, and horrible prospects to its full.  They
were on the virge of victory (with the Intifada), and were betrayed
by their own local leadership, their political infra structure
completely lost, their land and life stolen.

To the extent that there is local Palestinian opposition, it is
completly inable to act under these conditions.  Mainly, there is
no channel whatsoever of alternative media (and as important MER is,
most Palestinians cannot read it).  INternational, and Arab media
is completely prey to propaganda of the 'peae process'...

        Prof. Tanya Reinhart
        Tel Aviv University
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Thanks for your news, and the site, it was very interresting.
Sure i want more...

        Yours Sincerly,
        Mahmoud Slayhi
        God bless
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I would greatly appreciate recieving your E-mail. A friend just
forwarded a copy, and it seems quite useful. Thank you.

        Joshua Schreier
        New York University
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The Palestine Authority looks more and more like occupied Warsaw in the
early 1940's before the Jews were transfered to concentration camps.
The P.A. is the equivilant of the Jewish "Kopos", who maintained order
inside that Warsaw ghetto.

        David Mclau
        California
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Gentlemen,

Please put me on your regular Internet mailing list.  Thank you
for such an infomative publication.

        Richard Cross
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Thank you for the other side of the story.  I am very interested in
understanding the whole picture.

        Devvy Kidd
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Dear MER:
Please place me on your subscription list so thatI may receive
electronic or hard-copy (magazine, newsletter, etc.) information on
realities in the Middle  East.  Recently, I found your website and
was surprised to find a courageous entity willing to be honest
about what is really happening in the Middle East. Thank you
very much.

        Bruce David
       Tulsa, Oklahoma
        Oral Roberts University
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Keep up the great work!

        Willie Cork
        New Haven, Conn
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..your articles are generally well researched and excellent -- a
welcome relief from America's party-line and restrictive media...
Keep the material rolling; it has been a good balance of facts
and reasonable presentation without beating the drum, blowing
the horn, and blowing smoke.  I look forward to the reports.
good work!

Your prediction of Arafat's impending "Wooden Indian" appearance
was too true -- that's what he looked like when he sold out for
the U.S. money to suppress his people.  Thank you for the
information stream...

                Dr. Daniel Flickinger
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I am a student who wants to move on to write about events in the
middle east. I am NOT an exploitation writer like 99.9% of the trash
out there. I want to fight disinformation and it's important to me to
have real facts. Thank you for your site - I only hope I can somehow
contribute. One question and a comment:...

Comment:  I suspected that Washington-Report [On Middle East Affairs]
was bogus... - they never criticize KSA [King of Saudi Arabia - ed.].

Good work and keep the faith - you aren't alone.

        Dave Colquitt
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You do a great job reporting the complex stories...  The one
about the Punk Rockers in Israel was especially interesting...
All the best to you & yours!

   Peace,
   Katharina Harlow.
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Re: Arab-American Organizations

Amen.  Also, do not forget that many of them are senile which is a
source of embarrassment for many of the young and bright Arab-
Americans...    Wow.  Thank you and Keep on exposing this filth.

    G.B. [Initials used by request]
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I was thrilled to read the reportage about the rockists protestors
in Tel Aviv.  I am out of the country now for 6 month...

        Thanks,
        Tanya [Prof. Tanya Reinhart, Tel Aviv University]
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MER,

Keep up the good work. Objective and courageous journalism such as that
demonstarted by you is, unfortunately, rare and much needed. You will
no doubt have strong opposition from many groups, which further
strengthens the evidence supporting your claims of conspiracy,
hypocricy and propoganda. Keep it up.
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Subject:  Your relentless effort is much appreciated.

Dir Sir,
   I have read the arrogant, intimidating, and oppresive letter signed
by Fadi Shaqa'a, which in my opinion is a clear manifestation of your
credibility. People like Shaqa'a seem to be misled to believe that
all the world is a Middle East, where they can forge facts and
opress counter-opinions. I have been reading your newsletter for the
past year or so, and I would like to pin-down few facts:
   1-Although your stories seem to be provocative in most cases, it
is highly credible, and truthful. Being a Mid-Eastern myself, I
witness the stories you talk about, and see how what you call
"client regimes" forge facts.
   2- You need not worry about letters like Shaqa'a, or the acts of
Zoghby. Acts like these, coming from people who hardly have a
reputation, only proves how desperate such people are - they are
getting exposed.
   I only hope you will always have the courage and strength to
keep up your vital and much appreciated work.
 
        Best regards,
        A.H.
        Amman, Jordan
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I finally found the site I've been looking for.  Please send me
what you send.   Thanks, keep up the excellent work,

        Michael Ede
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Subject:  Re: A World Gone Crazy...Or Maybe Just Dumb - MER Editorial
 
Hi... I love you,

                K-B
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To whom it may concern,
    Last year I had the fortune of being on your mailing list.
Could I please be put back on it?

        Bonnie Toland
        New Hampshire
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Assalamualaykum
I would like to thank you very much for your effort and time during
the last year... thank you very much.  Wassalam

        YAMAN MONAJID
        UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
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I still believe that MER is performing a most important task in
attempting to inform people--and especially residents of the
United States, who often seem to have a rather naive belief in the
unalloyed goodness of their government's foreign policy (coupled
with an often equally simplistic belief in the unalloyed evil of
that same government's domestic programmes)--as to what is going
on behind the scene in the Middle East.

        M. Henri Day
       Oslo, Norway
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MER,

       YES!!! I'd love to help you!!! I want so much to help all the
people in the middle east who are getting screwed by all this
corruption and disinformation.

        I just want to say one last thing. I did not get into this
because I fancied myself as a freedom fighter looking for an
exploitable cause. I fell in love with the cultures in the middle
east (mostly Arab/Arabian but also to an extent Hebrew and Persian)
and after dodging the politics for many years I just decided enough
was enough. Too many people either don't know, don't care, or just
stay silent. I just wanted you to know where I stand.

        Thanks again for all that you people do and for offering
to let me help,

        Dave Colquitt
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Hello, and thanks for the excellent service you provide. I'm working
as a journalist in at weekly Norwegian newspaper called Dag og Tid,
and was alerted by one of your recent newsclips...

        Yours, Per Anders Todal
       Oslo
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Subject:   Re: Differences Between Labor and Likud - MER FlashBack
 
I have really been enjoying the bold truth that your newsletter
prints.  Please keep up the good work.  Thank you very much.

        Atiq Alvi

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