 Judith awaynomail (136) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 9:54 am ISN'T THIS WONDERFUL ---A statement from America. This is what has been so needed. Israeli soldiers have believed that Americans were supportive of their imprisonment of the Palestinians. A couple people missing from the list of passengers is Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky. Who knows, maybe they will decide to go. "The event featured Ann Wright, a former US army colonel who resigned from her State Department post in 2003 to protest the Iraq war, and Adam Shapiro, a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. Wright, who had just described her experience on board the US-flagged Challenger boat that was part of the international Gaza Freedom Flotilla, gave the answer: organize a boat filled with American passengers and join the next flotilla to break the blockade." "Wright?s idea was met with thunderous applause, and activist Laurie Arbeiter proposed two names for the boat: The Audacity of Hope and Dreams From My (Palestinian) Father, based on US President Barack Obama?s memoirs. The former name was chosen". "Nearly a year later, final preparations are underway for the next big flotilla to Gaza, which is scheduled to occur in late June. The US Boat to Gaza will take part in the largest planned fleet yet, with an estimated 1,000 passengers from an array of countries collaborating to break Israel?s blockade." "Solidarity activists say that because the US is Israel?s chief economic, military and diplomatic backer, it?s crucial to have US citizens challenge the blockade." ?It?s precisely because of the horrendous role that the US government has played literally for decades now that people inside this country need to have strong voices? against the blockade, said Leslie Cagan, coordinator for The Audacity of Hope and longtime anti-war activist.An estimated fifty passengers, including Wright, will sail with The Audacity of Hope, which will join at least ten other ships to sail to Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli naval blockade. ?It?s the role of those not in danger to help those in danger, and the Palestinians are in danger,? Wright told The Electronic Intifada. ?We can?t let [Israel?s] violence stop us from being with the people of Palestine.? "Other passengers on the boat besides Wright include Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Hedy Epstein, an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor; Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK; and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern." Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Toni nofwds C. (445) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 11:07 am Noted and thanks for the article, Judith. This is wonderful news! So many in the United States believe we should blindly support Israel, because they are our "ally"... they've become bullies to their neighbors and in my mind's eye that is sooo wrong. I wish I could afford to send a donation, but life for me is a struggle... I do send them my thoughts, prayers and best wishes, though. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Judith awaynomail (136) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 11:27 am Thank you Toni. Maybe I should not have said anything about donating since that was not my reason for posting this. Yes, we are all struggling, and I need to learn to not spend every cent each month, but keep some aside for later. We will be hearing more about the other countries who are also sending ships. Netanyahu will have a hard time keeping his position if he attacks another convoy of relief ships. This outdoor prison must be ended. So glad that Egypt has opened the gates and hope it stays open. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Margaret Mayer (111) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 12:01 pm Enough! What has been done to these people is abhorrent. It is time to free the Palestinian people. They deserve a future too. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Kit B. (282) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 12:08 pm If I understand this correctly all of this will come to a UN vote in September, though I defer to Margaret because she is a walking store house of facts and information. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Margaret Mayer (111) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 12:15 pm I want to mention that recently there was an alleged statement from a member of the ICRC (International Red Cross) from a non existent member, Mathilde Redmatn. There is a "Mathilde De Riedmatten" who works for the ICRC and this is what she stated in relation to Gaza recently (May 20 2011) The ICRC is concerned about the fact that the 1.5 million people in the Strip are unable to live a normal and dignified life. Almost no one can leave the Gaza Strip, not even to go to the West Bank, where many Gazans have family or previously had work. Health-care facilities are suffering from the restrictions imposed by Israel on the transfer of medical equipment, building materials and many basic items needed for maintenance. Water and sanitation facilities have been under strain for many decades. The fact that they remain even barely in working order is due to the efforts of certain humanitarian organizations. Buildings that have been in need of repair for several years and the many buildings that were destroyed during the Israeli military operation in Gaza in 2008-2009 cannot be repaired or rebuilt as long as basic building materials, such as concrete, are not allowed into the Gaza Strip in meaningful quantities. Violence claims civilian lives in the Strip on a regular basis. In recent months, many people have been killed or injured in escalating violence and sometimes even in open hostilities. Security incidents in the area between Gaza and Israel frequently result in loss of life or in destruction of property or livelihoods. We deplore the civilian casualties and continue to remind all parties that civilians must be spared the effects of the hostilities. Every feasible precaution must be taken to avoid civilian casualties. Very different from "there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza". Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Margaret Mayer (111) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 12:31 pm The recognition of a Palestinian State in September at the UN is not going to happen. The US will veto this, I'd bet money on it. The PA is aware of this and has given plenty of notice that they would not go forward with it, if Israel came to the negotiation table in good faith. I'll bet that Obama is trying to pressure states that he has economic influence with to not recognize the Palestinian State. This is already happening with pressure on Germany and France. Let's face it, at this stage in the game, the relationship with the US supercedes any justice or self determination of the Palestinian people. The good things that may come of it though is that if this does occur and the US vetoes the resolution before the Security Council (which is the only way to get recognition), there will be a significant price the US will pay for this. It will also show the world, again, support from the International community. The drawback of proceeding with this and not being successful is that either a) Israel will again try to invoke a Palestinian response to some type of aggression which will again make the Palestinians look like terrorists or b) a third intifada will rise up against Israel and again there will be bloodshed on both parts. There is no objective reporting of the conflict in North America. You can't really even blame Obama, he certainly had good intentions, but AIPAC is too big and too strong. The only way to fix this, is to have the people respond, let their congress know of their feelings. AIPAC should not be a non profit with a charitable donation tax write off. It is, plain and simple, an arm of a foreign country. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Bob E. (120) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 12:33 pm (1) Yes? there is to be a vote in the UN in September? We will see where Obama REALLY stands? We will see whether he is a complete politician or a man of principles? We will see... (2) In the past Obama has said it was NOT THE TIME to vote against Israel? Well? Obama? what do you stand for? What are you good for? if not now Obama ? when? (3) After the previous flotilla against the Blockade? Joe Biden said that the Israeli courts should decide if the Israeli military was too heavy-handed? Joe seems to think Israel does just fine and Israel would do its best to judge the Israeli military? Of course? nothing was said or done? All was good? What a farce! Say it isn?t so Joe... Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Margaret Mayer (111) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 12:38 pm Hi Bob: Maybe would should tell Joe Biden that murders should be the ones to decide if they are guilty or not. Israel does just fine, it is the Palestinians who are not. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 PlsNoMessages M. (264) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 1:23 pm Thank you Judith for the article at site...I basically can say Nothing SMART after Margaret - she put it all out there, and Bob E...In my humble opinion, I really wish that the USA that get so involved with the Entire World...but seems to me that all of the Presidents and This one Included seems to think we need to SAVE everyone...Disarm the world...go back to the Cowboy days and leave the rest of the world alone...Sorry Judith, but....goodness - we were better off without all of this MASS Distruction! Leave these Countries alone, we get HATED when we jump in...Ummmm, Sorry, don't really have an answer for this one, so gotta leave it to the rest of you guys...M Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Ralph F. (49) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 1:41 pm Noted. Thank you for the link. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 monka blanke (29) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 2:47 pm You cannot currently send a star to Judith because you have done so within the last week - same for Toni, Margaret and Bob. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Kit B. (282) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 2:56 pm Thanks Margaret as always an education. Even if the US blocks it can it not pass anyway? Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Margaret Mayer (111) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 3:04 pm Nope. The only way is through the Security Council where the Big US Veto lives. Recognition of Statehood and membership to the UN have to both be recommended by the Security Council before it can go to the General Assembly to vote on. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 TERRANCE N. (53) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 4:35 pm Thanks Judith. Our little dirty secret is how our congress votes practically 100% for anything Israel want. But when it comes to the Americans there is always the excuse that it cost to much. From healthcare, jobs, social security, you name it. As Margaret so astutely put it, "AIPAC is an arm of a foriegn country". After the Flottila is successfu, we need to put pressure on our congress and the president to represent the interest of Americans in the middle east in a fair and balanced way. Thanks to the Zionist corporate media the American people are not getting the full story about the Israeli/Palestine situation. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Lilith Cohen (156) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 4:52 pm Terrance - "Our little dirty secret is how our congress votes practically 100% for anything Israel wants" ?JTA? reports that as much as 2/3 of Democratic money comes from Jewish donors
I admire Ron Kampeas of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency for telling readers that he is a settler in East Jerusalem. Well Kampeas has also been more honest than other reporters about the role of Jewish money in the American political process. Here he says that the battle for Jewish money motivated the Democratic Party to name Deborah Wasserman Schultz as head of the DNC, and that Obama's recent mild resistance to the Netanyahu government has encouraged Republicans to compete with Dems for big Jewish donors. But Obama and the Dems feel that they can drive a wedge on this issue, in the right-center, and keep Jewish support. When I say right-center, it is because Obama's shills on this issue include Anthony Weiner, who doesn't believe there's an occupation, and because Wasserman Schultz has herself met with rightwing nut Sheldon Adelson. So the issue isn't really politicized, everyone's for settlements forever, and this is a backroom money fight. It shouldn't be in the backroom. You'd think that other journalists would jump in now and explain how rightwing Jewish money has corrupted policy on this issue. By the way the percentage in my headline has been estimated at 60 percent by the Washington Post and, privately to me recently by someone claiming to know, 80 percent. Go figure. Kampeas: "The White House has a very strong record to defend, and the objectives are misrepresented and in some cases maligned, so yes the White house is pushing back," said Robert Wexler, the former Florida congressman who was Obama's chief Jewish proxy during the 2008 campaign. Wexler wrote one of two pro-Obama Op-Eds in the South Florida Sun Sentinel in recent days. Florida, a swing state with a substantive Jewish population, has been a key Jewish battleground in recent years... Obama captured 78 percent of the Jewish vote in 2008, and estimates over the years have reckoned that Jewish donors provide between one-third and two-thirds of the party's money. ...Republicans made clear that they see a new opening now given the "1967 lines" brouhaha. "We?re stepping up our game with Jewish donors and other potential Jewish supporters that feel like Obama turned his back on them," an RNC official who is not authorized to speak on the record told JTA. Obama's appointment earlier this year of Wasserman Schultz as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee came in part in response to concerns that Republicans were making headway among Jews. Wasserman Schultz also contributed an Obama defense to the South Florida Sun Sentinel over the weekend. Where the Jews stand on Obama matters not just because of the Jewish vote, which is significant in key swing states such as Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio, but also because of Jewish money. The 2012 presidential election will be the first since a Supreme Court ruling allowing unlimited corporate giving to candidates. The Obama campaign has said it will need more money than ever because big business tends to lean Republican. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| TERRANCE N. (53) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 4:52 pm Also, why should we pay the salary, healthcare, and pension of these elected officials and they don't even represent the interest of the American people. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Margaret Mayer (111) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 4:57 pm Thank you Terrence, you are absolutely right. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| TERRANCE N. (53) | Sunday June 12, 2011, 8:16 pm 78 % of the Jewish vote, although a factor, Is not in my opinion the most significant factor. The most important factor is that our democracy has been soldout to the corporation, banksters, lobbyist, and military industrial complex by both political partiies. The American people, just like the Arabs are waking up to the fact that the people have been sold a fictitious democracy. People are starting to get it that Obama really represent entities like Goldman Sachs and GE and not the American people. I agree with you Alexandra that the right wing, the Zionist, and corporatist have stolen our democracy; for now. I am betting that people are not going to stand for this rule by the oligarchy. American and Israel will witness a backlash from the dispossessed Americans, and the Palestinian that will not be contained. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
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