BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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was hoping for. The reality wasn't quite as glamorous but the
people, non-surfers all, were terrific.
It was there that my hosts, Peter and Christie Michas and I
met Cheryl Knorr. She had written me previously, claiming
her father had been murdered by the Chairman of the
Council On Foreign Relations, Pete Peterson and William
Leavitt, a biologist arrested after 9-11 on suspicion of
spreading anthrax. It was so important she meet me, that
she drove from San Diego, three hours away, to do so.
Obviously, the story sounds mad. But Cheryl was both
charming and sane. Peter and I worked for a day sorting out
the details and records. We both agreed. The claims
checked out. One more witness to the evil had come
forward.
My lecture was given in a restaurant. Two nights before, the
owner of an adjacent liquor store, and one of his employees,
were shot to death in a robbery. The sidewalk was awash in
memorial flowers. This was not the Southern California of my
imagination.
The restaurant was full for the lecture and I was revved up. It
was my best presentation of the tour. And it was professsionally
recorded on DVD. The Michases made me a copy,
so I now have my first DVD. If anyone wants to order The
Dirty War Against The Settlers on DVD, just write me. If I
receive enough response, I'll make a cover and copy the
master for you.
Coming Into Los Angeles
By far the most emotional crowd was in the Mogen David
Shul in Los Angeles. Many in the audience really didn't know
my work, and not a few were Israelis. They were stunned
and some tried to fight back my reality by vocally denying it.
Yet by the end, most of the doubters had been assuaged