Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Will Israel Buckle?

Paranoid, Resentful, Isolated

By MIKE WHITNEY
CounterPunch

"....President Barack Obama has neither defended the peace activists nor criticized Israel's killing-spree. An American citizen, 19-year old Furkan Dogan, was shot in the head four times at point-blank range by Israeli paramilitaries, but Obama remains silent. If Martin Luther King had been assassinated on Obama's watch, Obama would have opined, "The United States believes that James Earl Ray has the right to defend himself".

In contrast to Obama's cowardice, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan plans to sail to Gaza in order to break Israel's blockade. The Israeli government is in a panic....."

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