Reply to Vinnie: The Israelis didn't "drop missiles" in Jenin. That's what the Americans do from 30,000 ft. The Israelis purposely went house to house so they could go after the armed combatants, those planning the next suicide bomber attacks, and known and wanted terrorists while minimizing civilian causalities.

Vinny, to my knowledge has never been to Israel either, but repeatedly dispenses disinformation on this topic. Who should you believe? You should believe the person who is telling the truth and its certainly not Vinnie.

Also, according to the Geneva Convention, it is illegal for armed combatants to hide themselves among civilian populations due to the liklihood that civilians will get hurt or killed. Hamas, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Islamic Jihad, etc. do this as a matter of course without even a whimper from Vinnie, the RCNV'ers, or the regular Free Radio Santa Cruz Israel-bashers. No, notice they ONLY blame Israel for the conflict. How realistic is this? Hasn't Israel been attacked four times by its Arab neighbors in an attempt to wipe them off the map since Israel was founded in 1948?

Do the regular readers at santacruz.indymedia.org support the next Jewish holocaust? I doubt it. But to hear Vinnie, you would swear he has lined up with those former Nazis in his Jew-bashing.

Israel has a right to defend itself from attacks. Israel is building the wall on the West Bank (actually Judea and Samaria) to defend itself from attacks ----not to "steal Palestinian land" as Vinnie claims. The wall is along a route that protects the largest number of Jews practicable. The Palestinians didn't honor the old green line anyway. There are not 300,000 Palestinians "trapped behind the wall" as was recently reported at an RCNV event on the UCSC campus. The number is 13,000. More disinformation. Vinnie also has a peculiar interpretation of UN resolution 242 which gave Israel LEGAL military and administrative control over the West Bank and Gaza (so much for ILLEGAL OCCUPATION). Vinnie seems to believe there was a State of Palestine in 1967. There wasn't.

I have heard Tanya Reinhart on Free Radio Santa Cruz and she is a highly biased source of information no matter where she lives.

Consider this. Do you think that oil-rich, wealthy Arab anti-semites might actually PAY people who are critical of Israel to spread their anti-Israeli propaganda? Do you think some of that might be happening? If you go to this event, ask Tanya Reinhart where she gets her funding. The answer might be very interesting indeed.