"In our view, the flotilla is clearly a political provocation … since there's no need for a flotilla to aid Gaza". Activist Joe Catron admits this is true.
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When I learned that you would be going to Gaza I was hopeful that as the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, you would seize the opportunity to deal with the Gilad Shalit situation directly. [...] Four essentials the media ignore. [...] It is rather improbable that if the Mossad had prepared the forged passports they would have pointed the finger at Israel by using the identities of persons living there. [...] Can a good man produce a bad report? Judge Richard Goldstone and the Goldstone Report. [...] If progress is to be made in negotiations the mantra "end the occupation" must be replaced by the pragmatic term "territorial compromise," as contemplated by Yitzchak Rabin as well as in the careful wording of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. [...] The report of the Goldstone Fact-Finding Mission has serious defects that need to be corrected before it can be treated seriously by the public or the UN Human Rights Commission. [...] Is non-payment of rent grounds for eviction? What if the tenant is a Palestinian living in East Jerusalem? [...] Here are the facts – you decide. [...] Critics of Israel seem to focus only on damaging media reports, while ignoring the wealth of credible evidence of the great lengths to which the Israeli army goes to minimize civilian casualties. [...] It is evident that in adapting the Irish peace model to the Israel-Palestinian conflict an essential addition to the six Mitchell principles is required, namely an undertaking to replace incitement by messages of mutual understanding. [...] President Sarkozy and other intermediaries should focus on the insidious role of incitement in the tragic violence that plagues the Middle East. [...] The much discussed articles and latest book by Professors Mearsheimer and Walt, attacking the Israel Lobby, are glaring examples of misleading by omission of vital relevant data. [...] The CNN special omitted from its six hours many experts in the field, leaving serious viewers more confused than before. [...] One must ask why, unlike the millions of refugees who have been resettled in host countries, only the Palestinian refugees have been left to rot in camps as political pawns, pacified by the false hope of return, rather than absorbed by their brethren in neighboring countries? [...] |
 
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