Michael Moore has a post in the Huffington Post that now has over 4000 replies. It is about occupation of Muslim countries, mainly Iraq and Afghanistan by the US. But one of the quotes in his piece (from Faisal Shahzad of Times Square case) mentions Palestine along with Iraq and Afghanistan. I see this as pretty big. He is putting down some breadcrumbs that leads the average guy to see the evil consequences of a foreign policy based on occupation and it puts I/P in a broader context. What Moore is doing is bringing an understanding of I/P via the back door.
Also see Catholic bishops condemning occupation in strong terms and condemning the use of the bible to justify the occupation. “…the bishops and patriarchs of the region’s Catholic churches called on the international community to take ‘the necessary legal steps to put an end to the occupation of the different Arab territories’”. I think the Catholic church’s getting public on this is pretty big. Pelosi, Boehner and all the other so called Catholic congress people will have to look at this in the face.
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