Today’s Flashpoints features great interviews with Hedy Epstein from Cairo on the Gaza Freedom March, and Joe Sacco on his important new book Footnotes in Gaza, which deals with Israeli massacres in Rafah and Khan Younis in 1956 (read an excerpt here). In the interviews Epstein explains why she didn’t get on the bus to go to Gaza, and Sacco discusses his intentions behind the book, how he recreated a story that is now over 50 years old, and his thoughts on how the mainstream media treats the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Give it a listen.
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These are really well done interviews, from Iraq to the present in Gaza and mining the past. Very well done
Very good interviews indeed; except I found the interviewer was asking a lot of leading questions.
Hedy Epstein did the standard sort of protestor’s fervid, but ultimately useless, apologia. This demonstration will have no real effect until quite a few (preferably Americans) are shot dead, in full view of the world’s press.
Joe Sacco’s interview was much more focussed, and seemed to get very much more into the minds of his subjects. 50+ years of criminal assaults on Gaza are will worth the story.
They’re working on that shooting-dead part, but no one seems to have noticed yet.
Very nice. What is the song at around 17:00?