Kept in a Cage By Ari Bussel We sat in the community room at a major LA shopping center. Over sixty people gathered on a beautiful Sunday afternoon to hear two members of the Flotillas to Palestine. One of the speakers was an Israeli, Yonatan Shapira, a helicopter pilot who co-founded Combatants for Peace and is a member of Boycott from Within; the other Mary Thompson, an American-Canadian who co-founded the Free Gaza Movement. Thompson in her own words: “I underestimated the power of Palestine.” It is a constant call of action to her, ever since she saw “a little...