Thanks to Ye Olde Phart for bringing this letter to my attention. the followin excerpt is from a letter written by a man who is an Israelu soldier, Orthodox Jew and a crominal defence lawyer. Not exactly the sort you could write off as an unitelligent anti-semite. It is well worth your while to hear what this person has to say about the conditions in Israel, the occupied territories and Bush's stupidity.

I am an Orthodox Jew and a criminal defense attorney in Tel Aviv. I am also a tank gunner in reserve duty, and part of a group of 1000 soldiers who have refused to serve in the occupied territories. Many of them were imprisoned in military jails in the past few months.

Now that President Bush has enlightened us with his new "Plan" for the Middle East, we can only wonder how long it will take him to realize that his plan is useless and meaningless. Although his speech was riddled with rosy descriptions he envisions for the utopian Palestinian State in the far future, George W. Bush managed to avoid any mention of the present situation in the same parcel of land where all these wonderful things are to materialize. No mention of the fact that all West Bank cities had been invaded by Israeli military forces; that hundreds of thousands of inhabitants are imprisoned in their homes by a strict curfew, and that civilians appearing on city streets are being shot at like dogs by Israeli tanks and Apache helicopters....ZNet