This convoy going to Palestine is going to be much more difficult to stop than the boat "Spirit of Humanity" Wonder if Israel will try to stop them? George Galloway part of the convoy to Gaza. You can still offer help and funds.
A lifeline from the United States to Gaza
"Fresh from the success of the Viva Palestina: Lifeline from Britain to Gaza aid convoy – which took over 100 vehicles to Gaza from the UK, Member of Parliament, George Galloway has linked up on his US tour with the Vietnam veteran and peace campaigner, Ron Kovic, to launch a similar, but even larger venture from the States.
Galloway announced the initiative at a 1000-strong meeting in Anaheim, California, rounding off a packed-out, coast to coast speaking tour highlighting the Palestinian cause.
“There’s a new atmosphere in the US over Palestine,” says Galloway, “the phenomenal response to this tour demonstrates that.”
Ron Kovic, whose story was immortalized in Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July, will be the co-leader of the convoy, which will travel from New York City to Egypt before making its way across the Rafah border into Gaza.
Viva Palestina USA is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, but individuals and groups from across the nation are organizing locally to generate support for the convoy, which aims to raise $10 million for humanitarian aid and 500 vehicles with which to deliver the aid into Gaza.
“And what better day to head off,” says Galloway, “Than July 4 – Independence Day!”
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Speaks from Israeli Jail Cell After Arrest on Boat Delivering Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
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Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire speaks to us from her jail cell in Israel. She was taken into custody along with twenty others, including former US Congress member Cynthia McKinney, when the Israeli military boarded their ship in international waters as it tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. [includes rush transcript
http://www.democracynow.org/20…..ire_speaks
Thanks Leen – and your title was amended to remove all caps in keeping with policy for Oxdown. For more information on Oxdown policies please see About Oxdown Gazette.
Recommended. Thanks, Leen. George Galloway is at the top of my admired persons list. Do you know if Amy has had him on for an interview during this campaign? That would boost his supporters (IMO).
I left you and Blue some answers back here.
Secret Agenda by Linda Hunt. Always check here before purchasing a book. You’d be amazed at what turns up at this site.
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/1559…..Paper-Clip
April 1/09 seems to be the last time for Amy and George. He’d just been barred from Canada by AIPAC butt kissers.
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http://i4.democracynow.org/200…..ecision_to
I like his sense of humor. Here he is discussing the first convoy.
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“In truth, the British flag was flown throughout our marathon journey across nine countries and the message was loud, proud and clear at each border crossing: ?”We are British, the convoy is British and we support the Palestinian people.”
The last time a convoy bearing British flags had crossed North Africa in such a size, was the Second World War when the Nazis were being chased by the noble Desert Rats.
Surprise
Our arrival in Morocco, and throughout the Maghreb, attracted the same initial reaction from the powers that be – all assumed the Viva Palestina Brits would be white, fair-haired and clean shaven so imagine their surprise when they saw in large numbers olive skins, hijabs, long black beards and Islamic dress. We might have looked more Tora Bora than Twickenham, but every one of us was a British passport holder, and proud to be so because what we were doing was exceedingly British.
If being British is about promoting equality, justice and fair play with the stronger person going to help the weaker then our convoy was red, white and blue through and through. “
http://therespectparty.net/pap…..ct%20Paper
I like Jason Kenney’s sense of smell.
Um … I don’t quite follow that comment.
I have no idea how Jason Kenney himself smells, and I’d prefer never to get close enough to find out.
Thanks for the diary, Leen.
Thanks, Blue, for that link. I added my comment there. I ignore reviews that do not present an objective view of a book or article. (Do I perceive a grin on your face?)
Thanks for the link to Amy’s interview with George Galloway. I had missed it. He so eloquently, yet clearly and simply states the principles by which he lives – human kindness toward those who are suffering…
[name of the author long forgotten]
May all blessings attend this Good Man, his followers and his supporters.
“To every man there openeth
A Way, and Ways, and a Way.
And the High Soul climbs the High Way
And the Low Soul gropes the Low;
And in between, on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth
A High Way and a Low,
And every man decideth
The Way his Soul should go.”
John Oxenham
Yup..LOL!
A miscalculation by the Zionists to lock up Cynthia. It was a good choice to lock up Cynthia. Good for the women who arrive in Israel with refugee papers and are told there is no UN in Israel. Perhaps now that their existence is known, the UN can get them out of jail? I wonder if the UN pays support for these women while thinking they are being taken care of? Indefinite detention for those who are not charged with a crime. Sound familiar?
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Cynthia McKinney calls WBAIX from Israeli prison – Dprogram.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..r_embedded
“GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk, denounced the unlawful naval seizure by an Israeli gunboat on the high seas of a ship carrying medicine and reconstruction material to blockaded people of Gaza.
“This Israeli action implements its cruel blockade of the entire Palestinian population of Gaza, in violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention that prohibits any form of collective punishment directed at an occupied people”, said the human rights expert. “
http://www.freegaza.org/
FOX reports on Cynthia.
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“Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and several other human rights activists remained in an Israeli prison Thursday after refusing to sign a deportation form that they claim is self-incriminating.
In a press release from the Green Party, McKinney said the form states that the Spirit of Humanity, a Greek-flagged relief boat carrying 21 activists, medical supplies, cement, olive trees and children’s toys en route to Gaza, was violating the Israeli blockade and trespassing the country’s territorial waters.
“We were in international waters on a boat delivering humanitarian aid to people in Gaza when the Israeli Navy ships surrounded us and illegally threatened us, dismantled our navigation equipment, boarded and confiscated the ship,” she said in a statement, adding that they were immediately taken into custody. “
http://www.foxnews.com/politic…..latestnews
(sigh), again my imperfect memory is revealed. Thanks so much for this correct rendition and the author’s name. I’ve struggled to have a climbing soul; often fell short of the mark…
You’re such a blessing, Bluebutterfly. It’s butterfly season here – I’ll be watching for some blue ones.
Press TV of Iran. Orwell shakes his head.
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“QUESTION: Erin Connors from Press TV. Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and members of the Free Gaza Movement were intercepted by the Israeli army when they were on a humanitarian mission over there. What’s being done about that? Are they on their way home? Will they be deported? What’s the next step there, and will their supplies ever get to where they’re going?
MR. KELLY: On that last question, I don’t know the answer, actually. I think I have to refer you to the Government of Israel. We can confirm that the Israeli navy did arrest those on board this – the ship which is known as Spirit. We can’t comment on any of the individuals or the number of individual American citizens on board because of Privacy Act concern. Our Embassy has been in touch with the Israeli authorities. We have been told that the boat was stopped in Israeli waters and is being escorted to an Israeli port, or may have already gone to an Israeli port. We understand passengers are safe and all accounted for. We’re seeking consular access to the American citizens who are on board. And we don’t take any position regarding the Free Gaza Movement or any of its messages. “
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/m…..125541.htm
We all fall short of the mark..the important thing is whether or not we try to reach it.
Here..some on paper for you..if the long url works. There are attempts to save them in the US, but not in your state that I can find.
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http://www.bing.com/images/sea…..terfly.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M…..nservation
They are in Texas.
http://greennature.com/article101.html
Had found a dif site, but not the Mission Blue; climate too severe in TX for the MB. From a link you gave previously on the preservation of the MB in England I learned that they are very temperature sensitive. The blues I’ve found online are mostly found in far south TX (I’m central). Temps here already around 104 degrees, and occasional ice and snow in winter. I’ll be extremely lucky to spot any specie of blue.
What’s wrong with this picture:
In my state if we witness an accident in which people are injured and/or suffering and we fail to stop and help, we can be hauled in, arrested, charged, tried and convicted of the crime of negligent homicide if we “fail to stop and render aid”.
The ship Spirit of Humanity was carrying aid to an injured and suffering multitude of people, yet our officials stand silent and hope to pass by unnoticed when our own citizens who are trying to render aid are kidnapped on the high seas and jailed by our so-called friend, Israel.
…just one of the little people squeaking, of no significance, turn the page, nothing to see here…move along forward as we repeatedly instruct you to do…
Larry Franklin is a State Secrets case. He isn’t moving along.
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“In court documents filed last week, a sketchy tale surfaced suggesting that someone wanted Franklin, the former Pentagon analyst who had agreed to testify against two pro-Israel activists on charges of espionage, dead.
“Franklin didn’t take it that way: It was more like a page out of The Sopranos, which would end with him disappearing — forever.
It would seem a simple crime, something that could be made public, with an arrest warrant issued.
But now it’s entangled in national security. Franklin and Cacheris are prohibited from identifying the person who made the “offer.” “
Well, the guy was definitely a Zionist,” Franklin said. “And he was a true believer. And like a lot of true believers, he’s beyond good and evil. They’re not subject to the laws the rest of us are.” “
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/…..nklin.html
A Grand Jury in Virginia is investigating the destroyed CIA tapes case. Lots to see here, but I doubt we will.
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“A special prosecutor, John Durham, has called the CIA officials as part of an 18-month-long criminal probe in to the destruction of evidence of the agency’s interrogators using waterboarding and other forms of torture against Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al Nashiri who are described by the Americans as “high value” detainees now held at Guantánamo Bay.
Those ordered to testify include the former CIA chief, Porter J Gross. Another is a woman who is not publicly named who heads the agency’s London station. She previously worked as the chief of staff for the head of the CIA’s clandestine branch, Jose Rodriguez, who is the focus of the investigation. “
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…..errogation
“This isn’t the only example of American censorship. The Russo-Georgian War wasn’t reported as it really was. Georgia started the war and the media knew it. Why then did all the presidential candidates condemn “Russia’s Aggression”?
How long will American citizen’s allow the mainstream media to broadcast only what they want us to hear. If you don’t believe that American media is censored, try to find out why Cynthia McKinney is being held in an Israeli prison on the TV News or from a newspaper.
I don’t make this stuff up. “
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/…..of-us.html
“As President Obama has called for humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza, and as the International Red Cross has damned the inhumanity of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the question that immediately comes to mind is why did not the United States send sufficient US Navy escort to see the “Spirit of Humanity” safely through international waters to Gaza? We send ships against Somalian pirates, why not against Israeli ones?
Israel, of course, will get away with a mere act of piracy. After all, Israel has been getting away with its war crimes and violations of international law for 60 years. If the UN tries to do anything, the US will veto it, as the US has done for decades.
The same week that “our” government in Washington told the Governor of California “not one red cent,” President Barak Obama handed over $2.775 billion to Israel. “
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/…..anean.html
It’s not hard to find out from a newspaper.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00738.html
Been reading up on the Geneva Conventions. What a peculiar turn of fate: Israel’s Zionist rulers now hate and defy the UN which made them state and granted them a homeland and bombed the UN schools and hospitals in Gaza. The recording of Cynthia McKinney tells that the other women imprisoned there say that the Israeli guards mockingly tell them, “there is no UN in Israel”.
I do not think that this is the Israel that Ben Gurion envisioned; nor is the America of today the proud land of liberty our Founding Fathers hoped they were establishing.
FDR, Truman, Ike would have ordered that shiploads of our agricultural surplus and medicines etc., be sent immediately to relieve the victims of aggressive war.
[and Cheney went to Georgia and promised $1 billion to them after the attack on their own people.]
Reports state that some 460,000 jobs were lost in June. It’s pretty well known that California leads the rest of the nation in trends; they’re now cutting state workers to short weeks and paying in IOUs. During the Great Depression my father was paid in “chits”…yet our wise leaders (/s)think that if they keep the biggest banks pumped up with $$$Trillions everything’s gonna be all right. Yeah. Grand theories of economics do not go far in feeding the masses who have no source of income.
Gurion envisioned an Israel with all Arabs gone. Of course the Zionists hate the UN. They want all of Palestine and the UN won’t let them have it. Happy 4th..on the 5th, google freemasonry in regards to the founding of the US. Your leaders, in collusion with the Fed, are engineering the collapse. Just as they did with the first Depression.
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“A Historical Survey of Proposals to
Transfer Arabs from Palestine
1895 – 1947 “
http://www.palestineremembered…..Simons.pdf
Not until the 3rd.
Bahrain does not have diplomatic relations with Israel, but they went there and got their people that were kidnapped from the Spirit released. No Bahraini official had gone to Israel previously.
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“Senior Bahraini officials have made an historic visit to Israel to meet a group of Bahraini detainees that were arrested with other activists this week when they tried to enter the Gaza Strip to deliver aid, the country’s official news agency BNA said on Friday.
BNA said the detainees were freed by Israeli authorities after Bahrain’s efforts to free them.
“The efforts resulted in the approval of the Israeli authorities to hand over detainees to the representatives of the Kingdom of Bahrain. As a result, the ministry of foreign affairs in cooperation with the ministry of interior sent a mission to Ben Gurion Airport to receive the Bahrainis detained,” said BNA. “
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/E…..3502578800
” This morning, the five kidnapped passengers from Bahrain left Israel via a private jet sent by their king. They will hold a press conference in Bahrain tonight at 7 pm Bahrain time. The two Al Jazeera journalists will be freed sometime today, their equipment given back to them but not the footage of the Israeli terrorist frogmen boarding the boat and roughing up some of the passengers.
It appears as though the Israeli government is drilling for natural gas in the buffer zone. That gas belongs to the people of Gaza. It seems to be one of their reasons for stopping us, perhaps they’re worried that we may go back and tell the world what we have seen.” “
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/44181
July 1 from the WaPo carries the arrest.
http://voices.washingtonpost.c…..s-col-blog
Dang, Blue! You gave me a mountain this time! I’ve read thru page 14 of the 297 and saved to disk – gonna take a while. I think it’s what I’ve been looking for as it seems to be an objective report from records 1895 – 1994. I’ll catch you later on a different thread…
hahaha..it is objective. Not exactly a quick read, but it is a good one. If you are going to have a personal researcher, you must expect the occasional long assignment…’g’.