In response to Ilan. It is true that I missed the first part of Brian's talk, and I arrived just as the movie had begun. But I had been listening to Brian Avery on Free Radio Santa Cruz for about an hour and a half earlier that day on George's show so I got a pretty good impression of his rap. Did he thank the Israeli doctors and nurses for the care he was given in the Israeli hospital? Did he thank the socialist state of Israel for paying for his first two surguries and the ambulance service that took him there? If he did, I do apologise.

You say that the Jewish settlements in Gaza are illegal? Did you know that Netzarim, a Jewish community in Gaza has been there over 900 years?

Your claim that every Jewish community in Gaza and the West Bank is "illegal" is not based on fact. The West Bank and Gaza have had a continuous Jewish presence for over 3000 years! In fact, the only time no Jews lived on the West Bank was between 1948 and 1967 when Jordan moved in (without any UN authorization at all) and occupied the West Bank. They declared that no Jew could live there!!! No wonder, Jewish people wanted to move back after 1967. Neither resolution 242 (passed after '67) nor the Oslo Accords forbid the building of Jewish communities on the West Bank. Besides--you certainly are not advocating the area be entirely cleansed of Jews are you? Why can't Jewish people and Palestinian Arabs live side by side in peace in the same land?