Posted by: zanshin, 2009-01-27 10:34

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Date: 2009-01-14 (Wednesday)
"Israel is practicing state terror, because it is using violence on a massive scale against Palestinian civilians for political purposes."
-- Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations at Oxford University who served in the Israeli army in the mid-1960s, interview with Amy Goodman






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