An agonizing Gaza story with an American angle, left untouched by our media

by on January 23, 2009 1

Suleiman Baraka is an astrophysicist working for NASA at Virginia Tech. On December 29, his 11-year-old son Ibrahim back in Gaza was critically injured by an Israeli strike. A week later he was dead. The father is desperate to get the rest of his family here. "End the occupation, end the occupation," he cries. Amy Goodman is the only media I've seen covering this heartrending story. Why isn't this in our newspapers? Oh the blindness to Arab suffering!             --Phil Weiss

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Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East

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  1. John Lewis-Dickerson says:
    January 24, 2009 at 3:41 pm

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    ANOTHER EQUALLY AGONIZING GAZA STORY AT "DEMOCRACY NOW" –

    Palestinian US College Grad Loses 2 Brothers in Israeli Shooting; Father Watched Son Bleed to Death After Israeli Troops Blocked Ambulances

    Thursday, January 22, 2009

    We return to the heart-wrenching tale of Amer Shurrab, who lost two of his brothers on the same day in an Israeli attack in Gaza. Amer is a Palestinian from Khan Yunis living in the United States. He recently graduated from Middlebury College. On Friday, his father and two brothers were fleeing their village when their vehicle came under Israeli fire. Twenty-eight-year-old Kassab died in a hail of bullets trying to flee the vehicle. Eighteen-year-old Ibrahim survived the initial attack, but Israeli troops refused to allow an ambulance to reach them until twenty hours later. [includes rush transcript]

    PROGRAM AND TRANSCRIPT –

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