Live Chat: ‘Treat Palestinians Like Jews’
Robert Scheer addresses reader questions and comments about his most recent column and Israel's deadly attack on the aid flotilla.BLANKRobert Scheer addresses reader questions and comments about his most recent column and Israel’s deadly attack on the aid flotilla.
The following is a transcript of a live online chat that took place the morning of Friday, June 4th.
8:54 Comment From Michael Pugliese
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:54:12 GMT
Comment: Kudos to Robert. I just read in a new book on Ramparts magazine (“A Bomb In Every Issue!”) how after his article on the ’67 war Ramparts lost a million dollars in promised monetary support. He might recall how Marty Peretz was one of those funders.
9:04 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:04:52 GMT
Comment: Hi everyone. We’ll get started in a minute. Feel free to comment until then or ask questions in advance.
9:05 amyparsnews via twitter
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:05:32 GMT
Comment:
Attack on Gaza Aid Flotilla, I don’t know how to feel about this — Who is telling the truth. I just want peace. |
9:07 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:07:03 GMT
Comment: Reader question: What are your thoughts regarding Gaza flotilla and how does mainstream media coverage compare to the truth?
9:08 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:08:17 GMT
Comment: There’s almost no connection, and that goes back 43 years, when Gaza was occupied. The media has refused to recognize it as what Jimmy Carter called it, an apartheid, and not just Gaza but the entire area, where people are denied their fundamental rights. Somehow the media looks the other way.
9:09 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:09:14 GMT
Comment:
Reader question: Why does Israel always respond to standard protests by shooting into the crowds? |
9:09 celebtown via twitter
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:09:55 GMT
Comment:
How can Israel block its borders from weapons smugglers, without the use of violence? – Attack on Gaza Aid Flotilla |
9:10 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:10:41 GMT
Comment:
Because Israel has become a state that relies almost exclusively on military force to treat what is basically a problem of self-determination and human rights. The idea is if you use this overwhelming military force that Israel has, that mocks the idea that it needs to do this for defense. If you rely on military force rather than diplomacy, decency, negotiation, you become a militarized nation and you define yourself that way. |
9:10 Comment From Guest
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:10:43 GMT
Comment: Mr. Scheer, did you happen to read Mr. Paul Craig Roberts’ article on Counterpunch regarding the latest attack on the flotilla?
9:11 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:11:28 GMT
Comment:
No, but we would be happy to link to it if you send it our way. |
9:11 Comment From Guest
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:11:30 GMT
Comment: What are the implications of fmr Prez Bush admiting to waterboarding?
9:12 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:12:23 GMT
Comment:
Reader question: Israeli troops have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing as many as 19 people on board.
These attacks, along with Israeli attacks on Gaza, harm America’s reputation and credibility. As a result, Americans are more likely to be targeted from extremists and armed groups, especially those who live outside U.S. America is not Israel, and Israeli policy does not represent, or even go along with, American policy. Therefore, Americans should not pay the price from their safety and reputation. |
9:12 Comment From Cris
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:12:34 GMT
Comment: Mr. Scheer, here is the link, http://counterpunch.com/roberts06012010.html
9:13 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:13:25 GMT
Comment:
Thank you, Cris. |
9:13 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:13:25 GMT
Comment:
Repeating earlier question: “Do you feel that there is any other way for Israel to block its borders from weapons smugglers — that is not violent?” |
9:13 Comment From Michael Pugliese
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:13:37 GMT
Comment: Not entirely. http://mondoweiss.net/2010/06/olbermann-seeks-non-idf-version-of-events.html http://mondoweiss.net/2010/06/bless-her-heart-andrea-mitchell-seems-upset-by-gaza-blockade.html http://mondoweiss.net/2010/06/netanyahu-now-under-siege-by-american-zionists-including-wieseltier.html
9:15 unicornmajik via twitter
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:15:17 GMT
Comment:
RT @sh007r1: #GAZA receiving more aid per person, per square mile, than anywhere else in the world. http://goo.gl/u0J9 #israel #flotilla #terror #jihad |
9:15 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:15:56 GMT
Comment:
Of course, there’s no question that Israel has resisted any serious international presence to preserve the peace. The irony here is that Israel didn’t find a single weapon on these ships. So the idea that this was a military threat is not supported by the facts. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that if you deny people their rights, they rebel. You must end the occupation, recognize their right to sovereignty, and that is what Israel has resisted up until today. |
9:15 Comment From gerard
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:15:58 GMT
Comment: How do you diagnose the reasons for Israel continuously shooting itself in the foot, policy-wise?
9:18 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:18:58 GMT
Comment:
Because the right-wing ideologists in Israel are in power. This is no longer the Israel of the old Labor Party, which was capable of being rational. Netanyahu is a zealot, believes in a Greater Israel which will control these areas, and they believe that the way to peace is to destroy a viable Palestinian society. For example, Turkey was the best ally that Israel had in the Muslim world, and to kill 8 citizens and to destroy relations with the one country you had joint and close relations with is suicidal. |
9:19 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:19:04 GMT
Comment:
(Regarding Bush and waterboarding, here’s AP: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/03/george-w-bush-defends-waterboarding_n_598806.html) |
9:19 Comment From David
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:19:10 GMT
Comment: What are the implications of fmr Prez Bush admitting to waterboarding?
9:21 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:21:43 GMT
Comment:
His admittance seals his place in American history as a betrayer of the basic ideals of the country. If America’s experiment in democracy means anything, it is that we believe in limited power and that means basic rights in due process for individuals, and Bush’s philosophical argument would be considered obscene by the founders of this country, who argue that the difference between us and the kind was our respect of the rule of law and the opposition to the right to power, and clearly Bush feels that he had that. It has been shown waterboarding did not solicit anything significant, and the biggest problem is that we can’t bring these people to trial in front of the world because Bush has destroyed the necessary legal process. |
9:21 Comment From Guest
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:21:46 GMT
Comment: Scheer — having been a backer of Obama in the primary and contemptuous of Nader, have you reassessed your attitude towards third parties? Sorry, but within the two-party system, Israel will always be free to do as they wish, and if you still think the Democratic Party will ever embrace a progressive agenda, you’re being willfully ignorant.
9:23 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:23:59 GMT
Comment:
Well, one irony in the Ralph Nader experience, as much as I respect him on almost every issue, he was hardly outspoken on the Mideast despite being of Lebanese origin. The problem is to suggest to make American policy as rational as European, I think is not true. More people recognize that giving Israel a blank check is disruptive to America’s interest. The real allies of this will be those people, including American politicians who bring pressure on the Israeli way, to open up normal business activity, open up Gaza and be serious to peace negotiations. |
9:24 Comment From Michael Pugliese
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:24:18 GMT
Comment: What about proposals to send NATO troops or from armies in the OIC, the Org. of Islamic States, to pressure Israelis (and provide more eyeballs to monitor/alleviate IDF repression)? Would that be open to the objection held by left-liberals/radical leftists/libertarians towards military intervention?
9:25 aymanfadel via twitter
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:25:15 GMT
Comment:
Israeli attack on aid #flotilla an extension of its illegal occupation of #Gaza http://bit.ly/aneWcZ |
9:25 babagrr via twitter
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:25:36 GMT
Comment:
Israel’s deadly attack on a #Gaza-bound #aid #flotilla was “inexcusable”, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu said on Monday. |
9:26 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:26:49 GMT
Comment:
I can’t speak for lefties and libertarians, but I will tell you that I and a few others have favored interventions to prevent genocide and other such anti-human atrocities, as long as they are done internationally and on a principle basis, why wouldn’t one favor it. The problem is that Israel is rejecting an international investigation, let alone international troops, and I feel international help should be brought in play. I favor the democratic way and I feel peace is necessary here. |
9:26 Comment From Kent
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:26:58 GMT
Comment: Hi Robert, big fan. I listen to you on “LRC” all the time. Question: How come none of you ever give a forum to discuss the views of economists like John Galbraith and Dean Baker who have an entirely different take on the federal deficit? Specifically, that it is not a problem at all, and that government spending greater than tax receipts simply represents net savings injected into the private sector. You seem to buy into the notion that the deficit is a big problem, but surely you must be aware that there are some heavyweight economists out there who disagree strongly.
9:29 Comment From Michael Pugliese
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:29:07 GMT
Comment: I have read that there was a Mossad plot to kill the Turkish PM . His AKP Party has been under pressure from Islamists in Turkey to realign vs. Bibi’s regime.
9:29 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:29:44 GMT
Comment:
(Answering Kent) Well, I don’t disagree that in a time of deep recession, one has to spend more money to help the people that are suffering. I am all for spending money that would help people get out of their mortgages. I am opposed to them spending money to help Wall Street and increase the deficit. The two positions are not contradictory; debt is bad because it will rob future generations of the ability to spend money on needed programs. It is happening right now with the cut on teachers’ salaries and needed programs. If the debt will help society, that is OK, but unfortunately that is not happening and the money is falling into the wrong hands. |
9:29 Comment From mrfreeze
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:29:47 GMT
Comment: Robert — My main concern these days is the way in which the media spends its every waking moment concocting (not practicing journalism) a wide variety of ridiculous narratives. Just look at the way in which the Gulf tragedy is now being framed as a problem with “Obama’s lack of outrage,” or the flotilla affair being treated as the typical “Poor Little Israel vs. the World” story. It is fairly obvious that the media is far more devoted to manufacturing bullshit headlines than actually doing its job. Have we truly succumb to Niel Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death”?
9:30 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:30:32 GMT
Comment:
We’ve been there for a long time. |
9:32 Comment From Cris
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:32:04 GMT
Comment: @Michael Pugliese here’s the link of what u were referring to…http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/turkish-media-expose-mossad-plan-to-assassinate-erdogan/
9:32 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:32:15 GMT
Comment:
(Answering mrfreeze) Ever since the rise of commercial broadcast news, particularly on a local level, even the old-line newspapers betrayed their obligation to do serious reporting. The Iraq war was certainly an example, with the NY Times. The current situation is not as depressing thanks to the Internet; though there is a lot of garbage out there, there is also a lot of truth, not playing on the title of this website, but it is out there. |
9:32 Comment From Michael Pugliese
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:32:21 GMT
Comment: Regarding the Democratic Party … 140,000 members of the Progressive Democrats of America, and others in orgs. like the Americans for Democratic Action, Democratic Socialists of America, carry on the fight inside the DP far more effectively than third parties like the hapless Green Party.
9:32 Comment From Cris
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:32:31 GMT
Comment: I love how many people are so amazed at Obama’s response to this whole mess. When if people can recall both he and Clinton spoke before AIPAC including McCain. We know and have known for a long time that both parties are strongly influenced by the Jewish lobby. Why do we allow such a strong international lobby to have any influence on American Interest? Are we really that ignorant of various powers within our govt? My bet is a certain YES!
9:33 ColetteCavanagh via twitter
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:33:18 GMT
Comment:
In his first question time as Britain’s PM, David Cameron said raid on Gaza aid flotilla was “completely unacceptable.” http://bit.ly/cehsFh |
9:35 Comment From TheJerk
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:35:07 GMT
Comment: Hello Mr. Scheer,
9:35 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:35:26 GMT
Comment:
(Answering Cris) Well, you know there is a Jewish lobby, there’s AIPAC, but there are plenty of Jews in this country, and I happen to be one of them, who want a more sensible policy in the Mideast. I think that any true friend of Isreal, Jewish or not, would recognize that this policy of continuing apartheid is as disastrous as white South Africa, and it will not last. The so-called Israeli lobby is lost. I suspect a majority of American Jews can see that, and I can see that Israel will have to shift course at this time because most Israelis don’t want to live in such hostility. Not only is the Israeli policy immoral, it is bankrupt. |
9:35 Comment From Kasia
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:35:30 GMT
Comment: Hi Bob — How do you think the Obama administration’s response to the flotilla incident is registering elsewhere in the world?
9:36 Comment From Michael Pugliese
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:36:04 GMT
Comment: A younger Obama with Edward Said, http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6619.shtml
9:38 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:38:33 GMT
Comment:
I think the non-response of this administration has disgraced America in the eyes of the world. You can’t have it both ways, you can’t be a champion of human rights everywhere except for Gaza, you can’t. It doesn’t compute for people, and for this government to speak up on issues about the world and to be silent about something, as I said in my column, to be an act of terrorism. To invade international waters and kill 9 people is a complete act of terrorism. It isn’t any different from what happened in Tiananmen Square. There was nothing on these boats that threatened Israel, and for the U.S. to chew out everyone in the world, the leader of Russia for not treating the people of Chechnya well, and to give Israel a blank check, seriously compromises the U.S.’s position to bringing peace. |
9:38 Comment From Michael Pugliese
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:38:35 GMT
Comment: On AIPAC and younger American Jews see the Peter Beinart NYRB article and this rancorous debate he had with hawk Eli Lake, http://israelpalestineblogs.com/2010/05/27/video-peter-beinart-debates-eli-lake/
9:38 Comment From Mike
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:38:42 GMT
Comment: From Mike: Will your book on the U.S. financial system really ever be published? I’ve had it on order for (I think but forget now) over a year. …
9:39 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:39:03 GMT
Comment:
This is my favorite comment of the last few years. |
9:40 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:40:15 GMT
Comment:
YES, the galleys have just been bound, the book will be published in 3 weeks and it will be for sale in August. Thanks for hanging in there, it is a good book and will surprise people by showing the responsibility of Democratic leaders as well as Republicans. |
9:40 Comment From JewCrewAllStars
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:40:19 GMT
Comment: Mr. Scheer, as a Jewish American I don’t agree with your views on this matter. What if the U.S. was able to stop the 9/11 attacks by taking more proactive actions, doing raids etc. …?
9:40 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:40:47 GMT
Comment:
Last question. |
9:41 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:41:22 GMT
Comment:
(Announcement while Bob answers this one: We’ll post all of the unpublished questions and comments after he leaves and we’ll keep chat open for a while.) |
9:42 Comment From Sue
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:42:22 GMT
Comment: Proactive like stopping the inside part of it?
9:43 Alaskanbushman via twitter
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:43:17 GMT
Comment:
Israeli aggression in the Middle East will get totally out of hand, creating the beginning of a war that will affect millions. |
9:44 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:44:28 GMT
Comment:
(Answering JewCrewAllStars) Well the U.S. did take many actions they claimed were going to counter terrorism but they were ineffective, we coddled Saudi Arabia and yet to this day have not had a boycott or any pressure against them. Afghanistan and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and we are waging enormously expensive wars against these countries and this has nothing to do with fighting terrorism, but we should recognize that it doesn’t arise on its own, it is always a lot of grievances that arise. Whether talking about Irish Catholics and Chechnyan Muslims and, in the case of Israel’s occupations of the Palestinian people, that has been a major source of fuel against American terrorism. And it seems to me many Jewish Americans, I think 3/4th of them, voted for Obama on the idea that he would be a peacemaker. He presented himself as a peace candidate against the Iraq war, and i think Jewish Americans should recognize that peace will bring safety, not militarism. |
9:46 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:11 GMT
Comment:
I should point out that the most egregious terrorist attack was the assassination of Rabin by a Jewish zealot who was opposed to the peace process. |
9:46 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:20 GMT
Comment:
Thanks, Bob |
9:46 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:34 GMT
Comment:
Readers, stick around, we’ll keep chat open and real time. |
9:46 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:41 GMT
Comment:
I’d like to continue but I have to go do the radio show and argue about these very same points! |
9:46 Comment From Michael Pugliese
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:48 GMT
Comment: On Paul Craig Roberts, white supremacist >… By Emma Rosenthal
AREN’T THERE BETTER, MORE DESERVING, MORE QUALIFIED WRITERS, WE CAN PROMOTE, TO DECONSTRUCT THE ASSUMPTIONS, ARROGANCE AND HUBRIS OF AMERICAN EMPIRE, ISRAELI SETTLER COLONIALISM AND GENOCIDE? See http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/867/
9:46 Robert Scheer
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:50 GMT
Comment:
Bye, everyone, thanks for joining. |
9:46 Comment From gerard
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:51 GMT
Comment:But, but, but … why are the right-wing ideologists in power?Why do they keep on justifying suicide?
9:46 Comment From Regarding Nader
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:55 GMT
Comment: Which politicians are those? There has been zero condemnation from anyone in the U.S. Congress or the administration, unless you know something I don’t? And Nader’s position regarding Israel and a two-state solution are well known — I have no idea what you’re talking about.
9:46 Comment From Observer56
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:57 GMT
Comment: Is there any fact to the reports that there were Al Quada operatives on board the flotilla? If the personnel on the “aid” ships had nothing to hide, why did they choose to ignore an offer of safe harbor to unload and warnings that the waters were closed?
9:46 Comment From Michael Pugliese
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:59 GMT
Comment: Turkish media expose Mossad plan to assassinate Erdogan http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=19713 http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4087.shtml fwiw, fyi, Madsen, a former NSA employee is a fave source on conspiracy theory sites,
Mossad implicated in a coup plot in Turkey, a NATO country; CIA fingerprints also found on attempt
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
9:47 Comment From Kent
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:47:03 GMT
Comment: But they also refute the notion that future generations will have to pay off the debt. Historically, they never have — the debt just gets rolled over and as long as the U.S. is a going concern it can continue indefinitely. They argue that since the gov’t issues its own currency, the gov’t doesn’t even have to issue public debt at all to “fund” its spending. That practice is a hangover from the gold standard, where money was backed by a commodity. With a purely fiat currency such as we have now, the government will always be able to spend. They argue that the only real constraint is inflation, which in a properly managed economy can only happen after full employment is reached.
9:47 Comment From Guest
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:47:05 GMT
Comment: Have you heard that all communications from the Rachel Corrie have ceased? This was posted by Doug Henwood on the LBO-Talk Archives:
9:47 Comment From DannyBoy
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:47:09 GMT
Comment:So i have been watching the news and they were saying that there is a second boat on the way to Gaza… Any ideas on what the outcome will be?
9:47 Comment From Guest
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:47:11 GMT
Comment: Message from LBO Talk [can’t vouch for this, but FYI]
—– Original Message —– From: Miri Weingarten To: i-opt at googlegroups. com Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 9:46 AM Subject: URGENT: Contact lost – ‘Rachel Corrie’ en route to Gaza
Dear all,
Organisers of the flotilla have informed me that all communication has been lost with the boat ‘Rachel Corrie’, en route to Gaza with 15(?) passengers including Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, and medical supplies. Spotting mechanism, Sat. phones and radio all out of order/jammed since last night, apparently.
It is unclear where the boat is (probably about 200 miles from Gaza) and in what direction she is heading. Israeli headlines (Haaretz, YNet) aired identical items saying that ‘the organisers’ had decided to turn back to Ireland but the organisers (from here) say they never decided this or said this. There is a chance that Israeli forces could take over the boat in complete media/radio silence under the cover of this misinformation.
May I suggest that you forward this to others, and see if you can get people to contact parliamentarians, government representatives, voice concern about the passengers’ safety, and ask them to contact their representatives in Israel. Who knows, perhaps this might avert another catastrophe.
Best Miri Miri Weingarten miri at jnews.org.uk
9:47 Comment From Mike
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:47:13 GMT
Comment: Mike: Thanks, Bob, I’m looking forward to the book and glad to hear it’s nearly on my doorstep. I for one will not be surprised by the compliance of Democrats in unraveling regulation and promoting Wall Street interests, just the Clinton Admin itself and Obama’s absorption of Larry Summers et al, not to mention the number of Wall Street execs in his administration gives the game away. Thanks.
9:47 Comment From Sue
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:47:15 GMT
Comment: Re war in the Middle East, we seem to be very good at poking a stick in that beehive in order to provoke war. We are bullies and I am ashamed of what we have become.
9:47 Comment From Sue
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:47:17 GMT
Comment: Thank you.
9:47 Comment From hearya
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:47:45 GMT
Comment: Thanks, Bob,
9:48 Comment From hearya
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:48:12 GMT
Comment: Now off to volunteer for the Winograd campaign….
9:48 Comment From Guest
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:48:27 GMT
Comment:[lbo-talk] Fwd: URGENT: Contact lost – ‘Rachel Corrie’ en route to Gaza PLEASE DISSEMINATE
Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com Fri Jun 4 06:54:40 PDT 2010 Previous message: [lbo-talk] Bucky Schvitz, Sociologist for Hire Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Search LBO-Talk Archives
Limit search to: Subject & Body Subject Author Sort by: Reverse Sort [can’t vouch for this, but FYI] —– Original Message —– From: Miri Weingarten To: i-opt at googlegroups. com Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 9:46 AM Subject: URGENT: Contact lost – ‘Rachel Corrie’ en route to Gaza
Dear all,
Organisers of the flotilla have informed me that all communication has been lost with the boat ‘Rachel Corrie’, en route to Gaza with 15(?) passengers including Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, and medical supplies. Spotting mechanism, Sat. phones and radio all out of order/jammed since last night, apparently.
It is unclear where the boat is (probably about 200 miles from Gaza) and in what direction she is heading. Israeli headlines (Haaretz, YNet) aired identical items saying that ‘the organisers’ had decided to turn back to Ireland but the organisers (from here) say they never decided this or said this. There is a chance that Israeli forces could take over the boat in complete media/radio silence under the cover of this misinformation.
May I suggest that you forward this to others, and see if you can get people to contact parliamentarians, government representatives
9:54 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:54:41 GMT
Comment:
All right, that’s a wrap. |
9:54 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:54:52 GMT
Comment:
… unless anyone has anything to add. |
9:55 Truthdig
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:55:13 GMT
Comment:
Thanks, everyone, for another great chat. See you next week. |
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