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	Gay News From 365Gay.com
		A number members of the governing coalition and LGBT civil rights groups accused the religious parties of attempting to subvert democracy by timing the vote to a time when most members of the coalition were not available to vote.
		The issue of civil marriage and same-sex unions is expected to come before the high court again.
		In the end civil unrest in Gaza led to the cancellation of the parade when security forces said they could not spare support to ensure there would not be violence at the parade.
	www.365gay.com /Newscon06/12/120606israel.htm (437 words)

	RaceandHistory.com - The Birth of Isreal
		In many minds, the birth of Israel is closely identified with the Nazi terror in Europe and the Holocaust, but in fact the conception of and planning for a Jewish state had begun some 60 years earlier.
		Israel has since refused to allow the refugees to return as long as Arab states remain pledged to its destruction, often claiming that there was no room for them anyway.
		Israel became a state on May 15, 1948, and was recognised by the United States and the Soviet Union that same day.
	www.raceandhistory.com /worldhotspots/Israel.htm (1384 words)

	The Cost of Israel to US Taxpayers
		Israel, whose troubles arise solely from its unwillingness to give back land it seized in the 1967 war in return for peace with its neighbors, does not fit those criteria.
		In the 1980s, during the tenure of chairman Seymour Reich, who went on to become chairman of the Conference of Presidents, ADL was found to have circulated two annual fund-raising letters warning Jewish parents against allegedly negative influences on their children arising from the increasing Arab presence on American university campuses.
		There are many other costs of Israel to U.S. taxpayers, such as most or all of the $45.6 billion in U.S. foreign aid to Egypt since Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979 (compared to $4.2 billion in U.S. aid to Egypt for the preceding 26 years).
	www.ifamericansknew.org /stats/cost_of_israel.html (2852 words)

	Civil unions in Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		2 - Explicitly referred to as "civil unions" in Quebec (2002), Nova Scotia (2001), and Manitoba (2002), common-law marriage extended to same-sex partners nationwide (2000).
		Israel has granted unregistered cohabitation for same-sex couples since 1994, in the form of common law marriage, a status that until then was only extended to heterosexual couples.
		The Israeli government is considering whether to recognise full civil unions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civil_unions_in_Israel (190 words)

	Israel
		Israel's primary practical value to the United States is as a place that will accept immigrant Jews, of which the past decades have produced quite a few.
		Israel is the instrument of the Zionist movement, and geographical base for world imperialism placed strategically in the midst of the Arab homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab nation for liberation, unity, and progress.
		Destroying the State of Israel would be a glorious milestone indeed in the Arab march of progress and your subjects will be happy to focus their attention on this goal rather than on the year-to-year economics of the nation.
	philip.greenspun.com /politics/israel (15557 words)

	1993 Human Rights Report: ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
		Israel is to continue to control external security, internal security and public order Because the legal status and the political and human rights conditions of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem differ sharply from those in Israel, the situation in those territories is dealt with in a separate report following the report for Israel*.
		The Government of Israel acknowledges holding the 10, but the disposition of their cases, as well as those of 12 Lebanese prisoners who have served their sentences, appears to be linked to Israeli efforts to obtain definitive information on the fate of Israeli prisoners of war and others missing in action in Lebanon.
		Most unions belong to the General Federation of Labor in Israel (Histadrut) or to a much smaller rival federation and are independent of the Government, although a majority of the elected union leadership is identified with the Labor Party and a significant Likud Party minority.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_nea/IsraelOccupiedTerr.html (6041 words)

	USATODAY.com - Vermont's gay civil unions mostly affairs of the heart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And although they mention legal benefits of civil unions — from estate planning to joint health care coverage — what they find significant about their union goes beyond legal and financial issues.
		The strong opposition to civil unions that initially resulted from the law has dissipated as it has become clear what gay unions are and what they are not.
		The average age for gays and lesbian seeking civil unions in Vermont is 39 — six years older than the average for heterosexual couples when they marry in Vermont.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-01-07-cover-vt-gay-unions_x.htm (1827 words)

	Non-Discrimination in Civil Marriage: Perspectives from International Human Rights Law and Practice (A Human Rights ...
		The same reasoning applies to civil marriage: excluding gay and lesbian people from the status of civil marriage is a form of discrimination based on sexual orientation.
		Civil laws on marriage can be amended to end discrimination based on sexual orientation without violating the right of religions to retain their own laws and practices.
		Even if the rights promised by civil unions on paper correspond exactly to those entailed in civil marriage, the insistence on a distinct nomenclature means that the stigma of second-class status will still cling to those relationships.
	hrw.org /backgrounder/lgbt/civil-marriage.htm (1870 words)

	Full text of Mass. gay marriage ruling
		Civil marriage is at once a deeply personal commitment to another human being and a highly public celebration of the ideals of mutuality, companionship, intimacy, fidelity, and family.
		Moreover, the Commonwealth affirmatively facilitates bringing children into a family regardless of whether the intended parent is married or unmarried, whether the child is adopted or born into a family, whether assistive technology was used to conceive the child, and whether the parent or her partner is heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual.
		Although ostensibly applying the rational basis test to the civil marriage statutes, it is abundantly apparent that the court is in fact applying some undefined stricter standard to assess the constitutionality of the marriage statutes’ exclusion of same-sex couples.
	www.msnbc.com /news/995055.asp (16673 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Israel's Supreme Court approves same-sex marriages performed abroad
		Efforts by Israel's gay community to win approval for same-sex marriage, a key issue in the U.S. and Europe, face a major obstacle because Israel's religious authorities have a monopoly over marriage and divorce.
		Civil marriages cannot be performed in Israel because of the rabbinate's monopoly on family law.
		But couples married in civil ceremonies abroad have all the rights of a married couple, and their marriages are registered here.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20061121-0732-samesexmarriages.html (597 words)

	WRMEA: U.S. Aid to Israel
		Total U.S. aid to Israel is approximately one-third of the American foreign-aid budget, even though Israel comprises just.001 percent of the world's population and already has one of the world's higher per capita incomes.
		Indeed, Israel's GNP is higher than the combined GNP of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza.
		AID does not term economic aid to Israel as development assistance, but instead uses the term "economic support funding." Given Israel's relative prosperity, U.S. aid to Israel is becoming increasingly controversial.
	www.wrmea.com /html/us_aid_to_israel.htm (4312 words)

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		Representatives of the unions, political opposition and civil society have also been meeting a military committee set up after the June strike to avoid repeats of clashes between students and riot police when 11 youths were shot and dozens injured.
		Guinea's unions are seen as symbolically important because of their key role in ending colonisation in Guinea and installing the country's first post-independence president, former union leader Sekou Toure in 1960, although Toure went on to break up and then ban the unions because they threatened his heavy-handed one-party rule.
		After Toure died in 1984 and Conte took power, unions and opposition parties were nominally reauthorised, but it was not until 2004 when the unions started agitating for improved standards of living and stabilisation of Guinea's runaway economy that they won support from beyond their traditional bases.
	www.alertnet.org /thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/dd5c04091995e2fcf680b3397f8e6e51.htm (1114 words)

	The Blog \| John R. Bohrer: NJ Civil Unions: Nothing to Celebrate \| The Huffington Post
		To settle for civil unions is to settle for political futility, expediency, timidity, and comfort.
		And nevermind that civil unions are discriminatory and implicate a lesser form of commitment.
		Especially when the end result of the civil unions will be a whole bunch of people saying to civil unioned gay couples things like "yeah, but you're not a real family because you're not really married".
	www.huffingtonpost.com /john-bohrer/nj-civil-unions-nothing-_b_36351.html?p=2 (4729 words)

	Israel (for information on occupied territories, see occupied territories report)
		Israel is a parliamentary democracy with an active multiparty system in which a wide range of political views are represented.
		Civil rights groups also expressed concern about the occurrence of physical attacks by religious Jews, particularly in Jerusalem, against women whom they consider to be dressed immodestly in public.
		Nonresident workers may not organize their own unions or engage in collective bargaining, but they are entitled to be represented by the bargaining agent and protected by collective bargaining agreements.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/416.htm (9698 words)

	Clergy divided on civil unions - thechronicle.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With the state legislature poised to pass a landmark civil union bill, religious leaders in the area have definite views on the commitment between couples of the same sex.
		Civil union status would affect property transfers, state and town taxation, hospital notification and visitation as well as state family leave.
		Should a civil union bill be passed and signed by the governor, clergy will not be authorized to officiate at civil unions.
	www.thechronicle.com /site/node/6420 (1087 words)

	NBC: Britain likely to OK civil unions - Same-Sex Marriage - MSNBC.com
		A civil partnership bill was introduced in the House of Parliament earlier this month and the House of Lords was set to consider the legislation on Thursday.
		The union is similar to the responsibilities that come with marriage such that each partner has a responsibility to one another and children of the family.
		“Civil partnership as an institution will be virtually identical to marriage and would entitle the partners to the same status as a married couple, even though their relationship did not meet the same criteria,” the organization said.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4797986 (729 words)

	HADASSAH MAGAZINE
		Among religious Zionists in particular, the common view is that Israel should be a religious polity, placing Jewish life on a higher level spiritually—and the state rabbinate and religious marriage express that.
		Israel’s Law of Return grants the right of immigration and citizenship to many people who are not Jewish under halakha—children of Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers, for instance.
		But Tal notes that civil union is not quite legal marriage—for instance, it’s not clear that other countries will recognize it.
	www.hadassah.org /news/content/per_hadassah/archive/2005/05_FEB/ltr-jeru.asp (1214 words)

	In The Days: Current news events in the light of biblical prophecy » NJ gay couples get civil unions
		New Jersey became the third state to bless civil unions as an alternative to marriage for same-sex couples, choosing a middle ground that establishes a type of relationship that didn’t exist before Vermont created it in 2000.
		Unlike civil union statutes adopted by Vermont and Connecticut that included language codifying marriage as a union for only a man and a woman, New Jersey lawmakers left out such a definition.
		Domestic partnerships differ from civil unions in that they confer a specific list of benefits to registered couples who may be of the same-sex or opposite sex.
	www.inthedays.com /days-of-noah/nj-gay-couples-get-civil-unions (1927 words)

	MyUSTINET News: N.H. Lawmakers Approve Civil Unions
		In fact, the success of civil unions was an about-face from two years earlier, when a study panel of lawmakers and community leaders recommended New Hampshire giving no meaningful consideration to extending legal recognition to gay couples.
		That panel had concluded that homosexuality was a choice, and it endorsed a constitutional amendment to limit marriage to unions between a man and a woman.
		Sponsors of the civil unions bill called it a door to marriage in all aspects but name.
	news.usti.net /newsstory/usa.top/2/wed/ca/Acivil-unions.Rih6_HAQ.html (579 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Economy - overview
		The most serious negative social effect of this downturn was the emergence of high unemployment; unemployment in the WBGS during the 1980s was generally under 5%; by 1995 it had risen to over 20%.
		Israel's use of comprehensive closures decreased during the next few years and, in 1998, Israel implemented new policies to reduce the impact of closures and other security procedures on the movement of Palestinian goods and labor.
		Israel usually posts sizable current account deficits, which are covered by large transfer payments from abroad and by foreign loans.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2116.html (16452 words)

	Lost freedoms of Israel, by Meron Rapoport
		The policies of Ariel Sharon’s government, especially its security wall, are meeting resistance within Israel, partly because the liberties of Israelis are being threatened, amid signs of a democracy in crisis.
		But social scientists, law professors and civil rights activists say they are all victims of the fact that Israel - often called the only democracy in the Middle East - is becoming less democratic.
		Another blow to civil liberties is a government plan, approved in April 2003, to evacuate 70,000 Bedouins from where they have lived for the past 50 years and force them into townships.
	mondediplo.com /2004/02/06israel (2774 words)

	Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Israel adheres to the major multilateral IPR agreements, including the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, and the Geneva Phonograph Convention.
		Israel is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and passed legislation in 1999 designed to bring it into compliance with the WTO agreement on Trade in Intellectual Property and Services (TRIPS).
		Israel permits parallel importation of patented pharmaceuticals under limited conditions with the approval of the Health Ministry.
	www.emich.edu /ict_usa/ISRAEL.HTM (1952 words)

	Houston Voice Online
		Gay marriage is not legal in Israel, but gay couples there already have many of the rights of heterosexual partnerships.
		And in another related development, the Mexico City legislative assembly voted to recognize gay civil unions, making it the largest city in the country to offer unmarried couples the same benefits as heterosexual married couples.
		The vote was 43 in favor of civil unions and 17 against.
	houstonvoice.com /print.cfm?cid=3788 (632 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The second reason private sector unions continue to support Israel as much as ever, Waller said, is due to “a historical bond between Israel and the unions that dates back to before David Ben-Gurion [Israel’s founding prime minister].
		But he laments the fact that Israel’s strong labour movement, its peace parties, and its record of women’s rights are being ignored due to what he describes as “a misplaced humanitarianism and anti-Americanism” by some unions and the left in general.
		Israel and it supporters hope so, perhaps assuming that a formal end to hostilities with the Palestinians will also bring about an end to hostility toward the Jewish state, both in the union movement and left-wing groups in general.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=6193 (2350 words)

	Israel
		Israel became independent on 14th May 1948 according to the United Nations resolution of 29th November 1947.
		One conclusion is that Israel has only three official flags which are included in the primary and secondary legislation.
		"Israel" is the new name of the State, but the inscription is also a remnant of the phrase "Peace over Israel," which had been part of an earlier proposal.
	flagspot.net /flags/il.html (1856 words)

	USATODAY.com - On marriage battlefield, civil unions offer middle ground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll last May, the public is evenly split on civil unions, which provide homosexuals the same state rights and benefits as those for heterosexuals.
		Civil unions provide legal assurance that homosexuals won't be punished for their sexual orientation.
		Civil unions would convey rights to the basic financial, health and legal decisions that married heterosexuals take for granted.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2004-11-07-our-view_x.htm (602 words)

	Israel and the occupied territories
		Israel continues to control certain civil functions and is responsible for all security in portions of the occupied territories categorized as Area C, which includes the Israeli settlements and 4 percent of the total West Bank Palestinian population.
		Israel continues to exercise civil authority in parts of the West Bank and Gaza through the Israeli Ministry of Defense's Office of Coordination and Liaison, known by the Hebrew acronym MATAK, which replaced the now defunct Civil Administration (CIVAD) in 1995.
		Israel's overall human rights record in the occupied territories was poor; although the situation improved slightly during the first 9 months of the year, it worsened in several areas late in the year, mainly due to the sustained violence that began in September.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/nea/index.cfm?docid=794 (18129 words)

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