Crucially, we must maintain the overall pressure to discredit and break the U.S.-backed Israeli blockade and siege of Gaza - not simply "ease" the blockade for a few days or allow in a few more items. The massive press coverage of the Mavi Marmara massacre has helped break the blockade of ideas, and we must build on that momentum. Governments will never lead - but with sufficient pressure from social movements and civil society around the world, they can be made to follow. That is how we will win the "war of legitimacy" that Israel, with its continuing policies of occupation and apartheid, is already losing.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
After the Massacre: The Global Impact of the Gaza Flotilla Crisis
from Foreign Policy in Focus. The author covers the various attempts by the international Zionist press to exert damage control on Israel's latest human rights crimes. It's clear that the people must lead, then maybe the governments will follow.