REPRODUCTION OF CODE PINK'S STATEMENT AGAINST ISRAELI HOSTAGE TAKING ON THE HIGH SEAS

Code Pink has taken a progressive stand against war and the crimes against the people of Palestine and in this case the Palestinians in Gaza. Their statement is well worth reading. CODEPINK condemns Israeli abduction of US Congresswoman, 21 others from Gaza aid ship June 30th, 2009

IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 30, 2009 CONTACT Ann Wright, U.S. Army Reserve (retired) and former U.S. diplomat, 808-741-1141 Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK co-founder, 415-235-6517 CODEPINK condemns Israeli abduction of US Congresswoman, 21 others from Gaza aid ship WASHINGTON -- After this morning's Israel's abduction of 21 human rights workers, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, from their aid ship to Gaza while in international waters, the women's peace group CODEPINK calls on the Israeli government to immediately release the passengers on the ship, the Spirit of Humanity, part of the "Free Gaza" movement, as well as for release of the boat and its humanitarian cargo. CODEPINK also calls on the Obama administration to condemn the Israeli action in the strongest terms. "This is an outrageous violation of international law against us," said Cynthia McKinney, a former U.S. Congresswoman and presidential candidate. "Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip. President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that's exactly what we tried to do. We're asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey." CODEPINK has coordinated five delegations into Gaza in the past two months, bringing nearly 200 activists from around the world to witness the destruction caused by the two-year border blockade of Gaza and Israel's 22-day military attack in December and January that killed over 1,440 Palestinians and wounded over 5,000. McKinney and the other "Free Gaza" activists were carrying aid to Gaza, viewing it as a symbol of hope and that they could open a sea route for Palestinians that would allow them to transport materials into Gaza so they could rebuild schools, hospitals and homes. "Our mission is a gesture to the people of Gaza that we stand by them and that they are not alone," said fellow passenger Mairead Maguire, winner of a Noble Peace Prize for her work in Northern Ireland. U.S. Army Reserve (retired) and former U.S. diplomat Ann Wright said that the Israeli Navy’s actions are in violation of international law as the boat was in international waters and was not jeopardizing the security of Israel. "The abduction of the passengers and crew from the vessel is an outrage and I call on the Obama administration to make a formal protest to the Israeli government concerning the abduction of U.S. citizens, including a former U.S. Presidential candidate," Wright said. "The Obama administration should withhold the $3 billion the U.S. gives Israel each year.” For more information, please call Ann Wright, U.S. Army Reserve (retired) and former U.S. diplomat, 808-741-1141 or Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK co-founder, 415-235-6517.

REOPEN INDEPENDENT AND MILITARY INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE PLOT TO SINK THE LIBERTY FORTY YEARS AGO

It is quite remarkable. Forty-tw0 years ago, 1967, there appears to have been a plot, a false flag operation to have Israel sink the USS Liberty as it monitored signals 12.5 miles off the Coast of Sinai. Johnson and McNamara plotted with Israel to nuke Egypt and make some sort of invasion of the region.

The reader should really look into accounts of the attack on the USS Liberty. In fact the Liberty was under assault for three hours by torpedos, heavy machine gun fire, napalm, white phosporous, and whatnot? It is a very much longer attack than the attack on Pearl Harbor but miraculously the ship doesn't sink! The nuclear weapons aircraft on the way to bomb Egypt had to be recalled. The crew of the Liberty are the greatest heroes I know of because their stubborn survival prevented a nuclear war forty years ago!

Long live the loyal faithful heroes of the USS Liberty!
Expose their murderers and intimidators!
Expose the conspiracy by Pig America and the Zionist Entity to make nuclear war on Egypt!

Only the ship USS Liberty didn't sink and the word got out that Israel, not Egypt was attacking the Liberty.

It was attack meant to kill everyone on board. President Johnson is reported to have said that he wanted this American intelligence vessel sunk. Israel failed in its mission and plan to do so. The nuking of Egypt had to be called off! The crew of the Liberty was either already dead, seriously wounded or a fortunate survivor without wounds. They were threatened and then told to never tell the truth or they would be possibly killed and definitely court martialed. They should be honored as the heroes who by keeping their ship from sinking and for communicating with the outside world and for communicating to the world despite the vicious Israeli efforts to cut off all lines of electronic communication.

If these stories have any truth we need to know and in a post 9-11 world where legitimate concern about untoward Israeli and Zionist influence on the United States government and culture competes with insane levels of anti-semitism we still need to know the truth, we cannot turn away from the facts or apparent facts and believe that such a plot was impossible or especially, that if we realize that the crew of the USS Liberty were pawns in an Israeli-American imperialist manuever then we need to take back the nation, from the imperialists and the Zionists as well.

Of course we know for certain that Johnson and McNamera hatched the Gulf of Tonkin incident which was another false flag incident and used to justify the murder of millions of Vietnamese, for what? I suppose it was an imperialist enterprise but the point is these two gentlemen were fully capable of and are on record as the architects and executioniers of the Gulf of Tonkin false flag incident. So is it too much to believe that these very real stories by very real actors in the incident are true?

ISRAELI PIRACY IS WORSE THAN SOMALI PIRACY

Remember the big media frenzy that focused upon one of the apparently scores of piracy incidents off the coast of Somalia a month or so ago? Yes, I believe it was high drama on the high seas as the sledgehammer of American might was slammed against the rag tag gang that took over one American ship.

It was one of those peculiar moments where, the United States media-hate complex needed a target for the empire that the empire could handle. Iraq and Afghanistan seem to be quagmires and now Iran seems beyond the power of even the most effective Anglo-American propaganda techniques. What to do? They had an answer, crack down on Somali teenage gang pirates, and they did, crack down on a half dozen of them at least. So, despite the peculiar scene of great warships confronting a rescue dingy millions of conservative Americans no doubt got the same satisfaction out of the killing of a number of the Somali pirates that they used to get out of destroying entire nations. My how the mighty have fallen!

So the rascals that managed to grab a ship were routed or killed. One of the kids is in New York to be tried and he is probably living better than in Somalia. My how the mighty have fallen and have no handle on the real world!

But what about Israel? Israel the wealthy, Israel the noble, Israel the ever suffering but not recently! Yes what about the Israel, the only nation to attack an American ship with absolute impunity, the USS Liberty some years ago. Israel sure got away with that one and now they are holding lots of hostages from a ship that tried to deliver concrete, yes concrete, to Gaza. You may recall that they need concrete in Gaza because Israel just pulverized Gaza with massive bombings just before the criminals Bush and Cheney left office. (I don't believe Obama has ever condemned or seriously critsized the destruction and siege of Gaza.
This fits in with the view that Obama is Bush Lite, the same old amoral beer but without the taste!

That's what were going to look at in this blog. If the Somali gangs are pirates what about the Zionist gang running and ruining Israel today? Aren't they pirates, and haven't they been pirates in stealing so much of what is not their? And to the Israelis have the excuse of the Somalis who are starving and have nothing. No, Israel has much yet is ever so busy taking from others and taking and taking and taking at the point of a gun. So are the men of violence running Israel ever going to stop being pirates? Will they release their hostages?

Where are the commandos and sniper saving the Green Party Candidate of elections past? Where are the oh so invincible SEALS making the world safe for Palestinians? Do they work for Israel too? Obama looks more and more like an "anything goes" type Zionist. Too bad, but it's increasingly obvious that O'bama is an O'bummer.