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Israeli upstarts

By STEVEN LEE BEEBER | March 17, 2008

And so, 30 years after punk sprang up in recession-ridden New York, 25 years after it did the same in deteriorating Britain, close to 15 years after it “broke” again in Seattle, and less than a month after another round of deadly “they shoot/we shoot” in Gaza (Israel) and Jerusalem (Hamas), it’s back, much as it was in the beginning, freaked out and head-shaven, ready to take on society by rejecting it. But this time it might be here to signal a change in Israelis’ attitudes toward their Palestinian neighbors. In the meantime, frustration and alienation are once again fueling a vital punk explosion.

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