[Peace-discuss] at HuffPo: Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama's Palestine Speech With Gaza's Ark

Wed Mar 27 02:34:23 UTC 2013

I will contribute $50.  -- Ron Szoke 
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Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] at HuffPo: Flotilla 3.0:   Redeeming       Obama's Palestine Speech With Gaza's Ark

Me too, $50.

--mkb

On Mar 25, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Randall Cotton wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 06:28:51PM -0500, Robert Naiman wrote:
>> So that's $120. $380 to go.
>
> Count me in - $50.
> R
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> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 06:28:51PM -0500, Robert Naiman wrote:
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>> From: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
>> To: David Johnson <dlj725 at hughes.net>
>> Cc: Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] at HuffPo: Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama's
>>      Palestine Speech With Gaza's Ark
>>
>> Thank you, David. Like anything else, everybody does what they can.
>>
>> I'm in for $100.
>>
>> So that's $120. $380 to go.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:26 PM, David Johnson <dlj725 at hughes.net> wrote:
>>> Bob,
>>>
>>> I think that is a GREAT idea !
>>>
>>> I wish I could do more, but at this time I can only afford $ 20.00.
>>> I commit $ 20.00 to the Ark for Gaza / Food Co-op campaign.
>>>
>>> David Johnson
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Naiman"
>>> <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
>>> To: "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
>>> Cc: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 5:20 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] at HuffPo: Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama's
>>> Palestine Speech With Gaza's Ark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> That's certainly true. Of course, my main objective here was to
>>>> promote interest in Gaza's Ark. Obama's speech was in the news, and
>>>> people pay attention to what's in the news, so I was like: thing you
>>>> are paying attention to because it was in the news, and why you should
>>>> pay attention to Gaza's Ark instead.
>>>>
>>>> Incidentally, I have an idea for a way we could support Gaza's Ark in
>>>> Champaign-Urbana.
>>>>
>>>> They're asking people to purchase Palestinian goods from Gaza which
>>>> will go on the boat. The minimum order is $500.
>>>>
>>>> If you go to the webpage:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.gazaark.org/products/
>>>>
>>>> you see there are some choices. Some of them are things our local food
>>>> coop could presumably sell, like "Pressed dates (ajwa)" and "Dates
>>>> preserves (Makhtom)."
>>>>
>>>> It would certainly be wonderful if our local food co-op would place an
>>>> order.
>>>>
>>>> However, one has to accept that there's a good chance that the boat is
>>>> not going to make it out; indeed, there's a good chance that it will
>>>> be intercepted by the Israeli Navy and its cargo will be confiscated.
>>>>
>>>> So, I was thinking that a bunch of us could pass the hat and front the
>>>> money to the food co-op to make the order. $500 divided among a
>>>> sufficient group of us would be something we could carry.
>>>>
>>>> If the boat makes it out, the food coop gets to sell the stuff and pay
>>>> us back. If the boat doesn't make it out, the people who fronted the
>>>> money eat the $500 loss.
>>>>
>>>> The idea being: it's not going to cost the co-op anything in any
>>>> event, so if there were anyone in the co-op who was against the idea
>>>> on political grounds, they wouldn't have the issue of cost to hide
>>>> behind.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Carl G. Estabrook
>>>> <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Even if Obama's speech was neither of those things, it is undoubtedly
>>>>> true that the initiative for justice is going
>>>>> to have to come from somewhere else - not from the US government.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 24, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Whether you see Obama's Palestine speech as a great motivational
>>>>>> speech or a white flag of surrender, the practical consequences for
>>>>>> the public are largely the same: the initiative for justice is going
>>>>>> to have to come from somewhere else.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/flotilla-30-redeeming-oba_b_2944367.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Robert Naiman
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>>>>>> Just Foreign Policy
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