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12.29.09 - 12:47 AM
Something is Gelling Here
From the stalled and detoured Gaza Freedom March, a hope-filled report from Philip Weiss on the achievement it represents. Borders have fallen away, he says, and an international conversation is taking place among diverse peoples on the injustice that is Gaza.
"They reflect an international consensus: the end of patience for war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and an ideology of Jewish exceptionalism supported by western governments. Those governments have failed to act, so we are speaking out as civil society."
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Show AllIt's time to Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel's number one sugar daddy.
Cheer them on. Those people are very brave.
Liberate the Gaza Ghetto!
The Jewish people oppressed and ghettoized for centuries are now doing to others what was done to them. Cheers to those fighting for Garzan liberation.
Bring America Back !!!!
****and good old dunderhead Jimmy Carter, picks this time to offer Israel an open 'Al Het', an apology in case his Book of Apartheid facts caused the Jews any stigma.
****Jimmy's grandson Jason Carter is planning to run for the Georgia Senate and G=Pa Jimmy wants to smooth over those Jewish votes in his District.
****Just like King George, Prince Barak, I don't think Jimmy Carter has ever whispered a word of protest against the Zion Genocide at Gaza==which included 300 to 400 innocent dead children !!!!
This makes Carters' Nobel Peace Prize look just about as good as Obamas, and it looks like the old attack rabbits are chasing Jimmy Carter down that familiar hole of Peanut Farm Politics.
For Shame, Jimmy Carter, For Shame !!!!
"Those governments have failed to act, so we are speaking out as civil society."
Is this not a great example for us here at home? 'The U.S. government has failed to act, so we are speaking out as civil society.'
Below is a letter I wrote to the NY Times. You could rightly ask why I even bother with that manipulative, pompous rag. I hope that some lower level employees will begin to question.
Someone I knew years ago worked at the Times. He told me that the editors held meetings around a large conference table about whether to suppress "bad news" or "embarassing news" from Vietnam. They always did, so as not to harm the "war effort" as we rained napalm down on civilians. So these decisions are not based on "fit to print" or importance, but on political expediency. That reporter was shocked and radicalized by the experience of seeing the Times in action.
"Dear Editors,
I notice that today there is a front page story about dancing with feather boas and such. But I am really much more interested in what is happening in Egypt, where 1300 protesters are trying to bring supplies to Gaza, the biggest open air civilian detention camp since WWII. How can you not cover the Hunger Strike by Hedy Epstein, 85 year old Holocaust Survivor?
As a reader of the New York Times, I am curious as to why your paper has largely ignored the developments coming out of Egypt concerning the U.S.-initiated International Gaza Freedom March. The Egyptian government has not only blocked the marchers from approaching the Gaza border, but is also blocking an aid convoy that intends to carry much needed humanitarian relief into Gaza.
There have been several AFP reports concerning the march, the BBC has mentioned the detainment of the British-initiated aid convoy, but all the coverage the New York Times has given the story is one very short AP article posted on its website. This is unacceptable."
Joe