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How I became an 'Unconscious Fascist' By Fiamma Nirenstein http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0703/nirenstein_2003_07_10.php3 In 1967 I was a young communist, like most Italian youngsters. Bored by my rebellious behavior my family sent me to a Kibbutz in the upper Galilee, Neot Mordechai. I was quite satisfied there, the kibbutz used to give some money every month to the Vietcong. When the Six Day War began, Moshe Dayan spoke on the radio to announce it. I asked: "What is he saying?" and the comrades of Neot answered: "Shtuyot," silly things. During the war I took children to shelters; I dug trenches, and learned some...

"LATEST ATTACK ON JEWS BRINGS A DEAFENING SILENCE" by Rosie Dimanno There's no haven for Jews. Not within Israel and not without. The earth is stained with their blood: From an El Al counter in Los Angeles to a beach resort in Mombasa. Their children, their elderly, their scholars, their farmers, the diaspora of their tribe -- all targets, at home and abroad. Shopping for food, riding a bus, strolling across a campus, dining as families in restaurants, dancing in clubs, worshipping in synagogues. Not a blessed place in all the world is safe. The carnage in Kenya last Thursday...