[Peace-discuss] Outrage…from France/Bretagne

[E. Wayne Johnson]

They seem disappointingly calm and civilized and controlled for Turks.

They must be Old Turks.


On 7/20/2010 4:40 AM, Morton K. Brussel wrote:
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> IMG_0081  When in the French-Brittany town Quimper, population 
> 120,000, I came upon and joined a march to protest the Israeli actions 
> against the flotilla trying to get to Gaza. Probably a couple hundred 
> persons march to the prefecture and demanded an audience there. They 
> were received. If only we could marshall such a crowd from our even 
> larger U-C population.
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> IMG_0083. French, Turks, Palestinians giving me a guided visit through 
> the town of Quimper.
> On French TV from the National Assembly, expressions of strong 
> condemnation of Israel and demands that the blockade be lifted, were 
> voiced, in marked contrast to what was heard in the U.S. House and 
> Senate.
> Later on in my travels, in the smaller town of Vannes, I was impressed 
> to see a similar demonstration.
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> One may rightly ask whether these outpourings of outrage did any good 
> at a governmental level. My guess is that the French government took 
> them into account, but did nothing openly; however, behind the scenes 
> it may have contributed to the subsequent defensive responses of the 
> Israelis.
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> --mkb
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