This comment is for George who attacks Becky Johnson;

I rarely write to indymedia. The website is really just a forum for for people who support totalitarian and socialist movements who prefer to live in the safety of a capitalist democracy and who are so really of little value in changing the world.

And George, forgive me for saying this, but I do make a living doing research about the Middle East and am a professional journalist. People do drop a dime to read me, unlike yourself who runs
an illegal radio station with the power of a 40 watt lightbulb behind it. I have appeared internationally on radio as a commentator.

George, you know I have never berated you. I have however asked you to invite me on to present the other side in your unending diatribes and propaganda fests against Israel. Let's face it, sweety, you're scared because I know my stuff and can shoot your "learned guests" down like I did Stephen Zunes who even has come out against the Right of Return after I called him on it.

As for Becky Johnson: You know what? Becky is a true socialist. She and I may not agree on everything political, but she cares for the homeless. She doesn't tie her desire to help people into some anarchist brainless ideology of driving the Jews out of the Middle East like you do. Nor does she support totalitariansim.By the way, I am not a right wing extremist because I support the United States and Israel in the war on terror and know the Palestinians were and are Saddam Hussein's closest allies. Their polls show 88% of their population support terror attacks and they ahe yet to arrest terrorists. They even pay rewards to them.

As for your great Israeli historians: Illan Pappe
was a history professor of little note in Israel
who tried to run for the Knesset on the Communist Party ticket and got maybe three votes. He then found his fortune traipsing all over the world for the PLO. He was involved in Israel in a libel trial where it was found he was behind payoffs by the PLO of hard cash to create fictitious massacres in 1948. You can read about him in my article CAL State Palestine on the web. Benny Morris has recanted and said Israel did exactly what Israel was forced to do; I think he finally figured out if he carried his anti-israel stuff far enough he'd cook in the ovens with the rest of Israel's Jews (plus making a 180 degree turn when you're in the media means more speaking engagements and money). For you see, that's the deal for these guys who are only esteemed historians by dint of Arab money jetsetting them around the world to talk to closet wannabe communists like those who live in the real safety of a seaside resort like Santa Cruz and under the protection fo the US military. The Israeli historians you guys love to cite all make millions as Quislings for the PLO. Uri Avnery's mom, an Iraqi Jewish refugee from 1948, called her son a liar and cut him out of her will. George, if you, who are of perhaps Jewish ancestry, but know nothng about Judaism or Zionism, can attack a Jewish refuge in the Middle East for fun and attention, why can't some Israelis make millions at it by being rich communists?

Ah yes, and the house demolitions. Uda Walker of MECA, who I debated once, claimed 36,000 hosues were demolished by the IDF. One writer here says 16,000. B'tselem, run by Anat Biletzski, the head of Israel's communist party says only 550. It really doesn't matter, because lying has become indemic in the "Palestine propaganda wars." The PA
has 19 propaganda ministries, sweety, the mainstay of totalitarian regimes.

You know why houses are destroyed? Because it's proven it prevents MORE bombings. Parents in the PA have turned their kids in for making bombs at home for fear of losing their houses. And that's why Israel demolishes homes: because they are bomb factories or housed terrorist cells and weapons caches (Oops! I forgot! that's unfair cause they are used to kill Jews!)

Let's face it George. YOU have issues tht do not revolve round "justice" for the Palestinians. Most of them from 1948 are dead. Their ancestors live less than 15 miles from where their relatives lived in 1948. Yet somehow they can't be given their own country, a new home, reparations, whatever nonsense, they must displace those nasty Jews who were equally displaced by the Arab world in 1948. Israel must be "Palestine." by any means necessary including lying and misinforming. Let's face it, George, the real desire here is to be anarchistic. If you really love the totalitarian revolutionary movements of the Arab world, how about renouncing your comfy beachfront life in Santa Cruz and living in the true land of misogyny, the Arab world instead of condemning Jews to live in it? The fact is being anti-authoritarian is your being. Hence a woman of Jewish descent who knows nothng about Judaism or Zionism makes a passion out of destroying a Jewish refuge in the world. The mere fact you changed your name to a man's name tells a lot.

I'm sure the next thread will say my facts are incorrect and cite reams of concocted history about how Israel must be destroyed. The fact is,
these "socialists" here, unlike Becky Johnson who gives some intelligence to socialism, are of the mind that they love humanity so much that they would gladly kill any human being to prove it.
And that, sadly, is the truth.

And Brian Avery is an idiot. He did nothing to help humanity, or Palestinians. He did find a new career making speeches for the PLO. Rachel Corrie
was not even protecting a house. An ISM video shows she was killed by a bulldozer demolishing a tunnel in an open field. The lying knows no end.
And that is why all these impassioned writings damning Israel on Indymedia won't amount to a hill of beans. Because there are more rational intelligent people in th world who can distinguish between terrorist murderers and true social justice and action. Sadly, it is lacking here.

Keep up the struggle, Becky!!!

And thanks for the plug for www.dafka.org.