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Cynthia McKinney Mourns the Dead of the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza:
People of the U.S. and the world must end Israeli impunity now!<br><br>
I am outraged at Israel's latest criminal act. I mourn with my
fellow Free Gaza travelers, the lives that have been lost by Israel's
needless, senseless act against unarmed humanitarian activists. But
I'm even more outraged that once again, Israel's actions have been aided
and abetted by a U.S. political class that has become corrupted beyond
belief due to its reliance on Zionist finance and penetration by Zionist
zealots for whom no U.S. weapons system is too much for the Israeli war
machine, and the silence of the world's onlookers whose hearts have grown
cold with indifference.<br><br>
I recently visited the offices of IHH, the Turkish humanitarian
organization that sponsored one of the Freedom Flotilla boats, and that
was targeted by the Israelis for its murderous rampage. Reports are
still coming in as to the full extent of the senseless Israeli
violence. Of course, I expect Israel's apologists in the press and
in the United States government to shift into high gear to support
Israel's lying machine. Take note of their names. The 12,000
internet squatters/written word grenade throwers, hired by the Israeli
Foreign Ministry to defend Israel and attack peace activists online, are
already busy spreading their orchestrated disinformation in
cyberspace. Be very careful what you read and believe from special
interest press and the internet. You could be reading one of
Israel's hired hacks. As a news diversion from what Israel has just
done, I suspect that we can also expect to see a lot of historical
footage of war's atrocities on television: today is Memorial Day in
the United States, a day long ago set aside to remember the sacrifices of
U.S. war dead.<br><br>
I encouraged and supported U.S.S. Liberty veteran Joe Meadors's
participation in the Freedom Flotilla. Unfortunately, the fate of
the U.S.S. Liberty innocents on the high seas, while in international
waters, has now been visited upon the participants in the Freedom
Flotilla, in large measure because of the Congressional- and
Presidential-level cover-up of the 1967 Israeli attack on that U.S.
surveillance ship. Combined with the failure of just about every
other effort to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against humanity,
war crimes, genocide, and crimes against the peace. Belgium and
Spain changed their domestic laws of universal jurisdiction after Israeli
appeals to do so. The entire musical chairs gang of rotating
Israeli leadership are war criminals. During my imprisonment in
Israel for attempting to take crayons to the children of Gaza, I called
Israel a failed state. If Israel is threatened by unarmed,
humanitarian activists to the point of massacring them, then Israel is a
failed state. Israel is a failed nuclear state.<br><br>
Obama's most recent granting of an additional $205 million for Israeli
"missile defense" is unconscionable, when in the same week,
reports revealed for the first time, Israel's offer of nuclear weapons to
apartheid South Africa. Just last week, a paper bearing the
signature of former Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, was released by
South Africa, revealing that in 1975, Israel could offer South Africa
nuclear weapons "in three sizes." South Africa's
then-Minister of Defense, P.W. Botha, was South Africa's signatory to the
letter. This information would make the entire Obama Administration
look sadly farcical as it points an accusing finger at Iran, except that
U.S. obeisance to the Israeli bloodthirst is deadly serious. With
deadly outcomes.<br><br>
Earlier this month, Israel was granted admission to the Organization of
Economic and Community Development (OECD), a direct affront to ongoing
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) efforts across the world. Once
again, Israel has thumbed its nose at the global community--with bloody
results--because it can.<br><br>
I am proud to serve on the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Palestine.
Its next sitting will be in London, where we will examine corporate
complicity in Israel's crimes against Palestine. The Tribunal will
sit from November 5 - 7. Please put this on your calendar. We
all must do what we can, where we are to end wars against the people at
home and wars against human rights abroad.<br><br>
Finally, a friend just sent a message to me saying that the Israelis had
lost their minds. Sadly, based on the past, the Israelis could very
well conclude that they can do anything--imprison me for trying to take
love to the children of Gaza and kill humanitarian activists trying to do
the same--because they know, in the end, they'll get away with it.
Instead, I would suggest that we are the ones who have lost our minds,
our souls, our spirits, and our human dignity if we allow the Israelis to
get away with murder--again--and we do nothing.<br><br>
I am calling on the people of the United States to change course
now. <br><br>
On this Memorial Day 2010, I am stunned and outraged beyond belief while
mourning the dead of the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza.<br><br>
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