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Nobel peace laureate mairead maguire and cynthia mckinney speak from an Isaraeli jail cell

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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Cynthia McKinney speak from an Israeli Jail Cell

By Free Gaza Team
 
"This is Cynthia McKinney and I am calling from an Israeli prison"
 
Posted July 03, 2009
 
LISTEN TO AUDIO HERE: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22970.htm
 
JUAN GONZALEZ: We begin today with the latest news of the ship that was seized by the Israeli military Tuesday as it tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israeli forces boarded the ship and towed it to the Israeli port of Ashdod. The twenty-one activists on board include former Congress member and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and the Irish peace activist and Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire. Huwaida Arraf and Lubna Masarwa were released, while the other nineteen remain in detention.
 
AMY GOODMAN: Huwaida Arraf is the founder of the Free Gaza movement. She joins us now on the phone from Israel.
 
Huwaida, welcome to Democracy Now! Explain why you took this boat trying to get to Gaza and then what happened to you on board.
 
HUWAIDA ARRAF: [inaudible] Hello to you all.
 
The purpose of our mission was to highlight to the international community that what Israel is doing to Gaza is blatantly illegal, and our government isn’t doing anything about it. Israel constantly claims that their policies are based on security, but what they’re doing—imposing collective punishment on an entire civilian population.
 
We were carrying on our very, very small boat some medical aid, some rebuilding supplies, because after the January—December-January assault on Gaza, thousands of homes have been destroyed, tens of hospitals and schools all demolished. And, you know, the donor community supposedly pledged [inaudible] Gaza, but no one is saying anything. Not one country is saying anything about the fact [inaudible] the entire Gaza Strip, and not one bag of cement [inaudible]—
 
AMY GOODMAN: Huwaida, we’re going to interrupt for a minute, because, Juan, it sounds like we have someone else from a jail cell in Israel.
 
JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes, it sounds like we have Mairead Maguire, the Nobel Prize winner, on the phone from her jail cell.
 
Welcome to Democracy Now!
 
MAIREAD MAGUIRE: Thank you very much, indeed. Thank you. 
 

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Mr blair about your book signing dedication suggestions

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By Felicity Arbuthnot

(source: UrukNet)

"Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall." (Psalms 16:18.)

I note you will be signing your book, "A Journey", at Waterstone’s flagship book shop, on London’s Piccadilly, on 8th September. As this will seemingly be a day when democracy is suspended, security near unprecedented, bags, cameras, briefcases, mobile ‘phones checked in before being allowed to ask for your signature, I may not be able to get to near to you with these suggestions, so some ideas from afar for your dedications.

For your years as enthusiastic partner in the silent slaughter of Iraq’s children under the embargo, a dedication to the seventeen infants in the neo-natal unit of Basra’s formerly fine maternity hospital, all who died on the very threshold of life due to your representative at the UN, with his US counterpart, vetoing importation of oxygen. You were jointly responsible for denying even the air that we breathe to Iraq’s newborn.

Please sign a volume for the premature baby, born at little over seven months, as my own, now strapping, over six foot son was. Unlike his miraculous medical embrace by the paediatric team, Basra’s tiny infant, was, in the looking glass world Iraq had become, placed in an incubator, swaddled in all the staff could find, to keep him warm. Neither the incubator, nor the electricity worked. In your name, incubators too had been vetoed, along with the wherewithal to repair the power grid, in your war against the new born.

This tiny being needed a blood transfusion of a relatively unusual blood group. In desparation the doctor asked me my blood type and from my memory I thought it was the same. I would have course donated, but asked he checked to make sure. There was no laboratory equipment. Giving the wrong blood would be a death sentence. Not giving blood would also be.

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Honour cannot be fought for it is earned

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 HONOUR CANNOT BE FOUGHT FOR, IT IS EARNED

Nabeweya Malick

 The brutal attack on the people living under siege in Gaza by Israeli forces has exposed the extent to which global Jewry allied to the Zionist project will sink in order to defend the State of Israel.  While the world stood and watched in horror as white phosphorous explosive laden missile after missile slammed into apartments, houses and schools leaving the inhabitants screaming and appealing for humanity to stop this slaughter, people who claim leadership of the Jewish community, unashamedly condoned this act of barbarism. 

 

          

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