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Israeli troop buildup in the north....

The young woman was wearing a black-and-white kaffiyeh fashioned into a hijab, which Muslim women wear to cover their hair. But her clunky combat boots gave her away. She was Jewish. Liad Kantorowicz, a 23-year-old Israeli-American, dressed that way deliberately, to challenge her audience's assumptions about identity....

Two Israelis arrested with bombs in the Mexican Congress! From the PGR (Mexican Department Of Justice) official web site comes an interesting story. As reported in La Vox De Aztlan, two men, one of them a former Israeli Colonel and Mossad agent, were arrested INSIDE the Mexican congress carrying 9mm pistols and dynamite, but were released following intense pressure from the Israeli Embassy....

another historical example of israeli "terrorism"...

KPFA Flashpoints Radio October 25, 2001: -Robert Knight from NYC: NY journalist beaten because he 'looked like Osama bin Laden' (6 min) -Israeli terrorizes more civilians in the West Bank; reports from Beit Jalla (10 min) -Kathy Kelly, US Sanctions against Iraq still killing fields of children; details on her CA tour (13 min) -Books Not Bars, Ella Baker Center: Super Jail dangers (11 min) -Pacifica Watch: Ken Ford incites terrorism (9 min) -Johnny Wishbone: anti-war rapper from Oaklan...

KPFA Flashpoints Radio October 22, 2001: -Nor Odeh, from Ramallah in the West Bank: all attention on Bethlehem today, under heavy Israeli attack.. In Bethlehem, French Holy Name Hospital, Church of the Nativity, Paradise Hotel, all under assault by Israel Lords of Justice. If it's ain't... kill it. no thanks, Jethr0w... (9 min) -Arundhati Roy: new essay (28 min) -Aurora Levins Morales: Essay: Frightened Children (3 min) -Noelle Hanrahan, with Pacifica Watch....

Every soldier contributes in his/her way to the perpetuation of not only the complete disregard for Palestinian human rights, but also the continuing fortification and confirmation of Military Israel. The army brainwashes its soldiers to receive a brutal and inhumane mentality and makes the single soldier lose his/her individuality. I will not join a system that does not value human rights and that continues to rape, control and occupy the Palestinian territories....

The people who are trying to kill us with bombs and biological weapons are not from Canada, Chile, China, India, Ireland, Tanzania, Congo, New Zealand or the island of Jamaica. They are from the Arab Mideast. They are not Israeli. They are men, and not women. They are young men. That is, they are not old men, and they are not children. So: We know the profile of the bad guys....

Flashpoints Oct 18: Aljazeera TV; Palestine Update, Terrorism by 'White People'...

I worry for people who've lost their homes near the site, though I see how superbly social-service agencies are trying to meet their immediate and longer-term needs. But I see ghosts: the perpetually homeless who sleep on city streets, whose needs are never addressed.... I watch normally unflappable New Yorkers flinch at loud noises, parents panic when their kids are late from school. And I see my Israeli feminist friends like Yvonne, who've lived with this dread for decades and still (ev...