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Richard Falk: Shamful thing in GazaNorman Fenkelstein and Huwaida Arraf: Israel’s attack
"My statement wasn't strong enough," says UN special rapporteur Richard Falk of his condemnation of the killings of humanitarian volunteers by Israeli commandoes on the "Freedom Flotilla" this Monday.
Falk is the Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories for the United Nations Human Rights Council, and he joins us via Skype to discuss the reaction of the international community, the way he and other advocates for Gaza have been and are treated, and more.
Huwaida Arraf: Israel's Attack
On Monday, Israeli commandoes boarded ships in the "Freedom Flotilla" attempting to bring humanitarian aid to residents of still-blockaded Gaza. The aggressive response by Israel turned deadly, with at least nine activists killed. The international community has reacted with shock and outrage; protests have erupted around the world outside Israeli embassies, with protesters even teargassed in Paris. Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled a long awaited meeting surrounding peace talks with President Obama and headed back to Israel to do damage control, and Turkey, from where the flotilla departed, has recalled its ambassador and issued a travel warning to its citizens.
Huwaida Arraf was on one of the ships; she joins us via phone from Ramallah, along with Norman Finkelstein, to tell us what happened to her and offer some analysis on the situation.
Huwaida Arraf, Norman Fenkelstein, and Richard Falk
In the middle of the night Monday, Israeli commandoes boarded ships in the "Freedom Flotilla" attempting to bring humanitarian aid to residents of still-blockaded Gaza. The aggressive response by Israel turned deadly, after with at least nine activists killed. The international community has reacted with shock and outrage; protests have erupted around the world outside Israeli embassies, with protesters even teargassed in Paris. Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled a meeting with President Obama and headed back to Israel to do damage control, and Turkey, from where the flotilla departed, has recalled its ambassador and issued a travel warning to its citizens.
Huwaida Arraf was on one of the ships; she joins us via phone from Ramallah, along with Norman Finkelstein, to tell us what happened to her and offer some analysis on the situation. Then we speak to Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, for more on the international reaction and the U.S.'s involvement.
Finally, Laura reminds us all of some words on the U.S./Israel relationship from General David Petraeus.
Norman Fenkelstein: To far this time
Recently, we featured the documentary American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein, a documentary about scholar and professor Norman Finkelstein's struggles with the larger intellectual community--and the U.S.'s Israel policy.
Finkelstein joins us in studio today to talk about the film, the current state of U.S./Israel relations, and his new book. Published by OR Books, This Time We Went Too Far explores the possibility that the December 2008 invasion of Gaza has caused a significant shift in the international community--including the American Jewish community--opinion of Israel.
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I want an accounting of the bodies that seem to have disappeared into the maw of Israeli discombobulation called "news". I believe there were 19 executed. It has been said again and again and again. People are missing. Did the sharks get fed or did Yehudi get more bodies to cut up and sell piece by piece?
ReplyDeleteInteresting how Turkey got all the bodies back. Instigation because these two countries are coming to a head and it would rile the people up more to have tears and anger to get things going, I am sure that is what the djinn known as Netanyahoo figures.
Dear Noor, Haven't you heard that the sharks in the area and their likes of other cannibal fishes have been converted to Judaism by the Jewish rabbis, and they're now running a syndicate called "The Mediterranean Syndicate for Human Organs Trafficking".
ReplyDeleteNow you know where the other undeclared bodies are.