[Peace-discuss] Rachel Corrie Continues Towards Gaza: Will Obama Let Israel Attack?

[Robert Naiman]

I empathize with your frustration, Jenifer, but it just isn't so, and from
an activist point of view, it's important for people to understand that it
isn't so.

Actions of the Israeli government are not impervious to external criticism.

Exercise: compare UN Security Council resolutions supported by the United
States which are critical of Israeli government actions and subsequent
actions by the Israeli government.

Example: This morning, the UN Security Council passed a resolution which,
among other things, called on Israel to release the detainees.

Now - later the same day - it is being reported that the Israeli government
has decided to release the prisoners.

Is that significant? Well, first of all, of course, the prisoners have the
right to go free. But secondly, the moment they are free they get to tell
their story - surely a motivation for their previous continued detention.
Already, lots of stories are coming out with headlines saying, "released
activists dispute Israeli government account," etc.


On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I'd like to think the US has that kind of power over Israel, and that Obama
> would turn this around if he could.  I once believed it did (or must have
> had, considering the amt of US $upport), but I'm beginning to think that
> Israel, under Netanyahu most especially, is marching unstoppably to its own
> mad drummer, willfully oblivious to anything or anyone... as crazy and as
> hell-bent on its agenda as decades ago Germany, current N Korea, and (it
> could be argued in some instances) the US since its inception...
>  --Jenifer
>
> --- On *Tue, 6/1/10, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Rachel Corrie Continues Towards Gaza: Will Obama
> Let Israel Attack?
> To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 12:04 PM
>
> The Irish Times reports that the Rachel Corrie is "ploughing ahead
> with its attempt to deliver aid to Gaza despite yesterday's attack by
> the Israeli navy on Gaza-bound ship the Mavi Marmara." Would the Obama
> Administration permit an Israeli attack on the Rachel Corrie, as the
> Obama Administration permitted the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara?
>
>
> Rachel Corrie Continues Towards Gaza: Will Obama Let Israel Attack?
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/rachel-corrie-continues-t_b_596014.html
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/1/111035/2833
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/596
>
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