Alice Walker - Joining The Freedom Flotilla To Gaza

I think one reason it is so hard for people to deal with the Palestine/Israel issue is that so much of it is unbelievable.

This morning I read a very moving and sane article in today's Guardian newspaper by the American author Alice Walker. In the article, Alice Walker reminds us that Messrs. Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney gave their lives - lest we forget, they were murdered - coming to the aid of black men, women, and children who were being brutalized in the American South by local police, state troopers and members of the KKK. Today our government stands by, as it did during the Civil Rights Struggle, while Palestinian men, women, and children are brutalized and terrorized by Israeli police and soldiers. Alice Walker writes,

And what of the children of Palestine, who were ignored in our president's latest speech on Israel and Palestine, and whose impoverished, terrorized, segregated existence was mocked by the standing ovations recently given in the US Congress to the prime minister of Israel?

 Lest we overlook the complicity of the United States in these terrible matters, there are not just two ways 'forward' or two 'solutions' to the Israel-Palestine-Problem; there are three ways - (i) the two state solution, (ii) the one state, apartheid, solution, and (iii) the present, 60+ year solution. In real terms, it certainly appears that (iii) is, had been, and will be preferred by Israel and the United States. It's the same kind of policy that is preferred by Democrats and Republicans here at home in their violence against the poor, jobless, and urban population - "Let them die" is the cry. So Israel and the United States share the same goal here - Let them die.

As I've written before, if you want to find out what's not happening here in the USA read the Guardian at least.

Read Alice Walker's article, at least:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/25/alice-walker-gaza-freedom-flotilla
And read her complete article, of which the Guardian article is an excerpt:
http://alicewalkersgarden.com/blog/