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...course, just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. Part of the Palestinian fear is justified. When Israel pulled out of Palestinian towns beginning in 1994, it had to expand its operation for finding and maintaining collaborators to keep track of events now outside its area of control. The Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security force, set up a special unit to select likely collaborators from among the close circles of Hamas activists and Palestinian Authority officials. The Shin Bet men who run the collaborator network in Bethlehem had two mobile homes...
...that they could happen anywhere. It is intended to pressure Arafat and his regime by planting the idea that any one of them could wake up in the middle of the night with an Israeli tank rolling by his house. If the collaborators don't make Arafat's men paranoid, maybe that will...
...wooden notice-board carries the kind of travelers' advice common across Asia. There are the recommended prices for porters and transport, the usual warnings against pushy vendors selling fakes. News on bandits in the area catches our attention: it seems a little paranoid in law-abiding Japan. But it's the sizeable reward for turning Christians in to authorities that offers the most obvious hint that it has been a while since this bulletin was updated...
...poster in the airport reflects the president's paranoid state. It depicts a suit-wearing, two-headed man taking a hammer to the word DEMOCRACY. On one head is a top hat emblazoned with the U.S. flag; on the other a Union Jack. "Sanctions Destroy," it reads. "Save Liberia." The poster is pasted in the windows of the four shops in the waiting area and on the outside of the door of the first class lounge. I asked the man behind the bar in the food shop if he had any copies to spare. "Send me a T-shirt from...
...reservations about being exposed to media scrutiny. The cover of White Blood Cells depicts a horde of black-clad attackers surrounding the two band members; open the CD case, and a second picture reveals the thugs to be paparazzi with cameras. "A lot of the lyrics are kind of paranoid," says Jack, of White Blood Cells. "It does kind of match all these figures coming at us on the cover." The song "A Little Room," he says, is about how "attention is both good and bad," a theme that runs through the album. A raspy, fifty-second guide to living...