I am convinced-the silence of the world community can be blamed on US/Israeli relations and AIPAC. The silence is purely political-and it speaks volumes. It is a disgrace to God and country. It is absolutely shameful.
Our darkest moment as we support a war of extermination-a war of genocide. We profit from the sale of weaponry to Israel, and keep our mouths closed on the War crimes and Crimes Against Humanity that Israel commits. We are every bit as reponsible as Israel is. Our stance here is indefensible. How can this possibly be defended on any level? Our darkest hour.
We have no moral high ground as a country. Between Iraq and the plight of the Palestinians-the US has lost the moral high ground-if we ever had it to begin with. We are who we are-and people need to realize it.

Thank you Ann and the others from Code Pink who went to give gifts to Gaza.

Unrelated to the women's rights issue, but related to Gaza, specifically so, is that the large Viva Palestina aid convoy is finally there.

http://www.vivapalestina.org

This is the sole article I noticed at CD for March 9th on anything specifically about Palestine, so chose this one for posting on the above aid mission.

How about an International Gentleman's Day to go with it ?!? Hey, not all of us guys are rambos you know and if you wanna call us "girlie", fine.

Sioux Rose

Is there any way to contribute to make sure that some food/donations DO get in? Does anyone know? Would it be Kathy Kelly's organization?

Bring America Back !!!!..Allow me to echo the first post below--of Greatbear215,
where the silence of the Gaza Genocide is largely due to USA, Israel, and AIPAC. It most certainly was and IS a disgrace. So was Lebanon--twice; and the West Bank plowing down of Palestinian homes !!!

****As we learn here from Ann Wright, other nations are more vocal and let us raise a toast to those who visited the women of Gaza on International Womans Day on Mar 8...yesterday !

May the force be with Ann Wright, Codepink and all those who went in
support of the Women of Gaza !! Blessings. prayers, Compassion.

And to ensure silence in the U.S.A. Senator Kyl has proposed that Plaestinians be prohibited from immigrating to the U.S.A.

There was an editorial cartoon carried by the national Post recently in Canada.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees had decided to boycott Israeli producst to show their support for the peoples of Gaza.

The cartoon showed a CUPE employee denying the Holocaust and suggesting "Jews" caused Germany to lose the first world war.

THATS what people have to deal with in North America.

"Siouxrose March 9th, 2009 3:33 pm

Sioux Rose

Is there any way to contribute to make sure that some food/donations DO get in? Does anyone know? Would it be Kathy Kelly's organization?"

As per my first post in this page for the link to www.VivaPalestina.org, SEE that website for a great answer to your question. I've already posted at CD a few times about this large [aid] convoy that left London, England, Feb. 14th and which has now traveled all the way to Gaza, having entered Gaza on March 9th. Early on, a Scottish medical convoy joined Viva Palestina, traveling a different route, but also heading for Gaza and it should be there shortly, if it hasn't already arrived. Other convoys and I suppose individuals to bring [aid] to Palestinians have joined Viva Palestina along the way, too.

I don't know what this UN-Code Pink thing is really about, but that it seems timed to happen as Viva Palestina and other convoys joining it were to enter Gaza to bring a million or more pounds of aid of ... various kinds, and perhaps this million is only what Viva Palestina itself was bringing, which'd mean there'd be a lot more aid than this due to the related convoys; well, it causes me to question what the real purpose of the UN-Code Pink "thing" is about. Ann Wright makes no mention of these aid convoys, Code Pink apparently doesn't, and I suppose the UN also doesn't, and since Viva Palestina and related convoys bringing real aid are left out of the news and views of nearly everyone in the West, and I'm wondering if this UN-Code Pink trip to Gaza might be actually meant to try to continue to keep media attention away from the large convoys (of real aid) of Viva Palestina, etcetera.

If Ann Wright and Code Pink are as really concerned as they are making themselves appear to be, then why don't they know about Viva Palestina, for anyone who really cares about Palestinians would know about these aid convoys by now(?). And if they are aware of these aid convoys, then why is it that they are [silent] about these?!

What Ann Wright, Code-Pink and the UN are doing doesn't sound like bringing real aid or not serious amounts of aid anyway, and I don't think women's issues is what Palestinian women have as first thoughts, being surely much more concerned about the need for aid and a LOT of it. So what Ann Wright, Code Pink and the UN may possibly be really up to is to stage media acts, say, to try to contribute to keeping people's attention away from the real aid convoys. Perhaps Ann Wright wouldn't know about such motives, but Code Pink has previously been rather very pro-Israel, including very pro-Senator Joseph Lieberman or -mann (spelling?) and there's no reason for not knowing that he's very or wholly hellbent pro-Israel, -Zionist, and anti-Palestinian. Code Pinky couldn't bring itself to opposing his run in I believe Connecticut just a few years ago and when a lot of people wanted Code Pinky to take such a stand. Code Pinky is pinky for criminal Israel.

Maybe it's not the purpose of this UN-Code Pinky media skit, but if they're not bringing real aid, especially a significant amount of it, then the UN certainly knows about Viva Palestina and related [aid] convoys, so .... I wonder, but will see what comes of this new Western-institution-sponsored skit the UN and Code Pinky are putting on to entertain us amounts to. And if they are bring a serious amount of real aid, then they definitely should not talk about themselves without mentioning Viva Palestina and the related convoys.

Women's rights is important, but the feminist movement(s) haven't been holy. While some have been sanely run or led by sane people or women, some of the organisations and individuals have been quite perverted and evidently sometimes used only for distracting public attention away from urgently critical issues that surpass the criticality of what should be the goals of [sane] feminists. It's like with homosexuality. The truly respectable homosexuals don't make a bunch of public or media noise and distraction over getting governments to legalise homosexual unions and all respectable, sane homosexuals do [not] lament about military discrimination against them, don't make a lot of loud cries because they want a chance to get into the military (where they'd be able to join in on wars of aggression, mass murdering people, etc.). And then we have the hellish homosexuals who can't leave their desire for legalised unions until the really and urgently critical issues we have in front of us have been resolved; and they bitch their damn souls away about wanting to get into the military, like only a bunch of crying, whining, bitching [psychopaths] would do.

Just because an organisation claims to be humanitarian, for human rights, and so on doesn't make it true. Such organisations can and do often work, behind closed doors, say, with right-wing, etcetera, sort of "think" tanks, etcetera. The UNHRC apparently also does too often work or speak in ways that are favourable for the West's imperialists, corporatists, etcetera.

Consider what the following excellent and important article tells readers about "major think tanks" and all of the hell "humanitarian" organisations provide for the world when it comes to (in the case of this article below) African countries. What the article describes is [not] unique to African contexts or countries.

Beware; to not be caught off guard. Oh, and people concerned about the Obama administration should make a point of definitely reading this following article, btw.

"Africom’s Covert War in Sudan", by Keith Harmon Snow, Mar 6 2009

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/africoms-covert-war-in-sudan

(was there ever any doubt?)

Gaza And The Warsaw Ghetto

same place

different time

while the world stood by

genocide

live

You Go Ann...

God speed to you and the Strong women of Gaza. With women like you and the Gaza women working hard, sooner or later we will take the world back from these crazy cowards who masquerade as men. Just know, I am continually doing what I can to help and will not stop till these men are in Prison at best, or at least out of our positions of government. In Viet Nam era I was drafted twice. I refused to fight and I did not run either. I stood up to them and told them I would not fight their wars for profit. I sometimes felt bad I did not fight for my country. Now however I feel I am fighting for my country in a war against the enemies within.

Thank you Col. Wright. I am proud to serve under your command.

Thomas Milcarek

A Proud American

Sioux Rose,

You're welcome. I'm not sure precisely which facts you're referring to, besides for Viva Palestina and related convoys, that is; and maybe the general statement about humanitarian organisations not often being really true to this category and sometimes it's very evidently intentional, like Keith Harmon Snow well explained in his article and prior ones of his. Maybe you're only referring to the part of the post about the aid convoys though.

There's another, if not more than one, update at vivapalestina.org for March 10th, so today.

They've made it into Gaza, which is great. I recall having read back in Feb. that a ship to bring aid and leaving from I believe Lebanon, or maybe it was Libya, was stopped by the Israeli navy, very rudely, roughly, forcefully stopped, so the ship couldn't get to Gaza. I don't know if that was with FreeGaza.org or separate, and recall having read about diplomats, etcetera, and Cynthia McKinney having sailed with FreeGaza.org to Gaza, although not all of them made it that far, being stopped again by the Israeli navy; but I don't know if they were bringing significant amounts of aid. I think one, if not more than one, trip included medical doctors and that they had medicines, but am not sure if they were with FreeGaza.org; having forgotten the details. A considerable group of doctors traveled to try to get into Gaza to help Gazan medical people, but were prevented from entering Gaza and I think it was Egypt that despicably prevented them.

BUT Viva Palestina and related convoys seem like they'll all get in. You'll see at the Web site that a few of the people who had been members of the Viva Pal. convoy were prevented from entering Gaza by Egypt and therefore returned to their originating points, which I think is England; but the picture of them at I believe the airport back home seems to show that they're happy. They're happy with having contributed all the way to the border with Gaza. And that's a good rate, for the convoy had around 300 people, so only around four being prevented from entering Gaza is actually great, overall.

Some goods weren't allowed to be taken into Gaza, but it seems that most of the aid was allowed, and from what I gathered at Viva Pal., the goods that weren't allowed were [not] a big deal to the convoy organisers and members.

I like learning about such actions caring people take, as you can see. Just forgot some details from what I read over the past couple of months.

And I expected the convoy would be allowed to cross into Gaza. Given the size of the convoy, I found it unlikely the government of Egypt would prevent entry into Gaza. Of course most Egyptians being very pro-Palestinians in their extremely critical circumstances, they would have been widespread ... rampaging against their government if it had chosen to despicably prevent Viva Pal. from entering Gaza; the situation could have possibly been [explosive] for the government.

George Galloway says they'd blow the Egyptian president's house down if he did ... something to the convoy and I guess it's if he dared to try to prevent the convoy from entering Gaza. There's a video of him saying this at Viva Pal.'s website. He repeats it very clearly a few times.

It seems he didn't name the party he started [Respect] based on empty wording. He seems to be strongly for real respect of others, human rights, .... So he respectfully warned if the convoy was blocked by the president of Egypt, then he'd find his house blown down. Lively idea!

http://www.jeanmariesimpson.com

Right on, Ann. Keep on keepin' on...