THE AUDACITY OF A PRINCIPLED STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE, SOMETHING OBAMA KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT

   A year after the merciless slaughter in Gaza by the Israeli military the interest in Gaza and the condemned Palestinian nation has spread throughout the world.  


    Today at least two organizations seek to break the siege with Gaza and are trying to enter Gaza.  One has been blockaded by the Egyptian military junta and the other has been blockaded by the Egyptian regime, Jordan, and Israel.  I speak of the Viva Palestina and Gaza Freedom March.


    Today some Gaza Freedom marchers entered Gaza to rally with thousands of Palestinians, but the Egyptian dictatorhip at the behest of the United States embassy has prevented entry by more than one thousand other participants from around the world who are now being beaten down by Mubaraks thuggish security apparatus in Cairo.


    Who can imagine the size of this movement a year from now?  A thousand and more will return to their homelands to tell the truth about Gaza, Israel and Egypt.  The truth, something we don't get from our governments or the corporate media.  The movement to break the siege of Gaza is spreading like a wildfire!



     Break the siege of Gaza!


      Try the Gaza Siege Criminals!

CITIZEN NORMAN FINKELSTEIN MAKES A BRILLIANT SUGGESTION

The various and sundry campaigns to nonviolently confront and defeat the Israeli siege of Palestine, and especially Gaza, has grown geometrically since the incredibly savage Israeli massacre of more than 1400 Gazans in 2008. Israel has never seen such a loss of respect and popular support. Europe has largely come to see what Israel is doing to the Palestinians but Zionist influence remains strong in the halls of government. The United States is rapidly becoming a different country as the Zionist oppression of the Palestinians is finally being seen for what it is, a longstanding and continuing set of crimes against humanity and peace.

Norm Finkelstein, the son of holocaust survivors, has helped us see through the apparent memorialization of the shoah or Jewish holocaust which ends up being used to confuse the public about what is going on in Palestine/Israel today. Now he suggests a mass demonstration to impose international law in Gaza by opening the border crossings which Israel and Egypt generally keep shut like prison gates.

Meanwhile, hundreds of United States citizens will soon return to the United States eager to tell their relations, friends and communities about what is really going on in Gaza, Israel and Egypt.

It is time for the right-wing American rabbis to embrace international law, to show that they too love the Palestinians and to criticize the real crimes of Israel with the intention of improving the situation for all parties. Or they can continue supporting Israel's confrontational and subversive influence both vis-a-vis Palestinians whom they brutalize and murder; and the United States citizens whom they have so substantially misled and used to oppress the Palestinians.

When American Zionists maintain an uncritical and callous support of Israeli crimes they only discredit themselves. American citizens are seeing this more and more every day. The great educational campaign about Palestine and Gaza is only beginning.

AMERICAN POLICY WONKS AND MEDIA HEADS IGNORE THE WORSENED SIEGE OF GAZA

One of the objectives of the Israeli invasion and bombardment of Gaza was to intensify the siege. For three weeks the Palestinians have been under bombardment as their supply lines were either blockaded by the Israelis as usual along with the connivance of the Egyptian dictator, Mubarek. Major efforts were made to destroy the emergency tunnel system which was providing some life giving supplies to the 1.4 million people of Gaza. Now the Israeli invaders have scurried back to their suburban lifestyles. Gaza is more isolated and under siege than ever.

Of course, no one in the corporate and pro-imperialist media talks about the siege of Gaza and the West Bank and frankly it seems that we usually have one or more Zionists doing all the talking. PBS and NPR have really ignored the massacres in Gaza with the exception of BBC to some extent. Indeed, even these more informative sources of information usually repeat Israeli talking points instead of covering the news. What is the percent of Zionists at these publicly financed news organizations?

When will Americans pay attention to reality? The siege is crucial to understanding the nature of Israel and its allies. It is a crime against humanity and a war crime. We can't ignore the siege of Palestine, including Gaza and be talking about anything but Israeli and American imperialist talking points.

With more than 11oo or is it 1200 slaughtered by the Israli war machine and only fifty of them fighters we have to speak out and demand that the happily chatty "journalists" of NPR and PBS get off their lazy intellectual behinds and start covering facts in the real world instead of repeating Israeli talking points ad infinitum!

MORE THAN 1100 DEAD AND THE US MEDIA IS VIRTUALLY SILENT

Yesterday the UN Headquarters in Gaza was burned to the ground and two hospitals set on fire. Israel has slaughtered more than 11oo Palestinians to to constructive end. Shine light on the crimes of Israel and the pro-Israel lobby which virtually has cut off information about Israeli crimes. This is because of the uncritical pro-Israeli lobby having such influence over time and particularly the clever way the holocaust of Jews has been used to justify (in a completely irrational and immoral way) the conquest of Palestine and the murder or expulsion of the native Palestinians.

For the Palestinians it has been sixty years of a living hell being subjected to the brutal rule of European settlers posing as the owners of the land they conquer by fire and brimstone.

Look at the blog online if you can and follow the other blog links for a variety of perspectives on how to oppose and expose the Israeli aggression and oppression of the Palestinians.

We need to oppose the reintroduction of settlers into Gaza and to continue to oppose the siege and invasion of Gaza. Shine the light on the crimes of the Zionist oppressor!

ISRAELI HAS NO MORAL AUTHORITY

Israel has killed, massacred and murdered almost four hundred Palestinians. Crucially, American politicians and the rich of all religious beliefs are silent about the carnage or even endorse it. They say being friends with the state of Israel is the policy of the empire, aka the United States, and that such a friendship is built upon pile after pile of Palestinian corpses, as usual.

So how is it that the smaller massacre in Mumbai was a big crime, a horrible terrorist attack worthy of fierce condemnation and this far greater massacre by the nation of Israel is something else? It doesn't make sense and I think that if you believe otherwise that you are essentially irrational and hypocritical. You are also probably a Zionist or someone who has become extremely biased and brainwashed by Zionist, ie. pro-Israeli state propaganda. Of course, if you are just biased because of the one-sided information we get about Palestine/Israel then you really don't have a clue as to what is going on. Does it matter that you are ignorant? I think it does, but do you?

The massacre in Mumbai was bad and condemned by all, but the the Mumbai attack was largely symbolic. Nothing of substance was destroyed. Israel has, on the other hand destroyed or endeavored to destroy the lifelines that the Palestinians had created to survive despite the Israeli attempts to starve them out. This siege has been the really big crime, targeting 1.5 million Palestinians for starvation, denial of medicines, medical care, potable water, jobs, income, sovereignty, education, electricity and all the accoutrement of civilization. The siege against Palestine, like that against Iraq is a genuine and already used weapon of mass destruction. Siege, sanctions that starve and torture more than a million people is a crime far worse than even this terrible massacre which is far worse than Mumbai, far worse, and yet uncondemned by the capitalists of all kinds. Yet that criminal siege, like that conducted by the United States against Iraq, killing a million people remain off the table for discussion.

This massacre and destructions of what little remains of the Palestinian infratructure is being ignored and Israel is being given a free pass. No doubt the Israelis hope that by making life almost impossible in Palestine for the Palestinians, at least, that they will leave. It is Nakbar II!
Most of the Palestinians have been forced out of Palestine by military force or military terror. The Israelis, consumate fools to the end, insist that these Palestinians can never return to their homeland! It is a fundamental violation of international law.

All peoples have the right to return under international law and the Zionist state has even justified its conquest and "right of return" and say anyone they agree is Jewish can live there, but not the real residents. They have to be expelled. Yes, the people of Palestine who possessed the land and were expelled by these same European settlers are denied the right they clearly have!

So the state of Israel looks pretty unjust and oppressive. They massacre Palestinians and think it is just great! They expel the Palestinians and say they can't return! So if you are a complete hypocrite, denying the rights to your brother than you take for yourself you have no moral authority and that is the way Israel is and has been and will continue to be until it recognizes the unalienable rights of the Palestinian people. I don't see Israel becoming a just nation. I wish it would become one but it is fundamentally a white settler state trying to implement a cruel apartheid system and expel forever all the Palestinians they can.