The doors are closing on the Gaza Freedom March. You had to register by last night, but I know of someone who signed in today. The organizers, Code Pink, are presenting a list of the travelers to various governments as we speak. I believe they are expecting 1500 international marchers (can’t find my notes!). On the Gaza side, Palestinian organizers are hoping for 50,000 to join the march from Beit Hanoun to the Erez crossing into Israel, demanding an end to the blockade.
Felice Gelman, who led my delegation to Gaza last May, points to two large meanings of the march: 1, West Bank authorities and Gazan ones, Fatah and Hamas, have cooperated in bringing about the initiative, and that is a positive development, which just shows, 2, good things will flow from this historic gesture of Palestinian solidarity on the part of the global community, this effort to make a terribly-isolated and dispirited and oppressed people feel less lonely. "There has been nothing quite like this since the Spanish Civil war," Gelman says, thrillingly.
Rest assured: There has been precious little coverage of this undertaking. None to speak of in the American MSM. Count on this site to cover the march.
It’s really depressing to be aware that there is no coverage of this in the grand old USA’s MSM. If I were god I’d pull their public airwave licenses and privileges.
Cool. I really wanted to be a part of this but prevailing circumstances made it impossible.
But, don’t forget, there are a number of local groups in the United States (and elsewhere surely) who intend to hold local events at the same time as the march, to call attention to it and the issues it highlights. If you can’t go to the march, get involved locally!
Instead, in this country, the Zionists would get our government to pull your public airwave licenses and privileges IF you covered the Freedom March.
I wish this march accomplish more results than the Free Gaza Movement’s earlier venture. The second major culprit in isolating Gaza from the rest of the world after Zionist entity is Mubbarak regime in Egypt which receives $1.5 billion as annual bribe from Washington to protect Israeli borders from any other Arab attack.
SS Free Gaza & SS Liberty
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Rehmat,
is there anything in the world that you disagree with that you DON’T blame on the Zionists?
So then who’s doing the blockade movement against Gaza, yonira? Who’s been attacking Free Gaza boats, as well as the Liberty (in this case, I mean the USS Liberty)? Who, if not Zionists? Martians? The Bavarian Illuminati? Who, yonira?
We need an America Freedom March. We need BDS against New York Times, Viacom and Goldman Sachs.
Do you think it wise to compare this to the international effort during the Spanish Civil war? Forty per-cent of those volunteers never returned and a majority of the survivors were wounded. Just what kind of direct action are these people planning?
Would that it was, in fact, like the Spanish Civil War, where volunteers, mostly untrained, came to Spain from all over the world to defend the country’s legitimate government on the battlefield in its struggle against the fascists under Franco and indeed, many gave up their lives for that cause. And we are not going to see their likes again. It is a very different world.
There have been peaceful volunteers who have gone to many war zones but either as witnesses or as medical helpers.
The Gaza Freedom March, nontheless, can make an important statement at this point in time, in Europe and elsewhere in the world where the press is not so controlled.
Code Pink is one of the organizations involved in the planning and has been promoting the march on its website but the sponsors are international who have come together as the International Coalition to End the Illegal Siege of Gaza.
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Jack Edwards, a 93-year-old veteran of the Connolly Column (Irish volunteers who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War as part of the International Brigades) recently commented to a colleague of mine that if he were in his twenties today he would be going to Palestine to struggle for liberation there.
Jack Edwards, a 93-year-old veteran of the Connolly Column (Irish volunteers who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War as part of the International Brigades) recently commented to a colleague of mine that if he were in his twenties today he would be going to Palestine to struggle for liberation there. Yes, times have changed, but international solidarity is alive and well in the Gaza Freedom March (among other places).