By Franklin LambFormer Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney returned home today after 6 days being held by the government of Israel while attempting with 21 colleagues to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza on the vessel, the Spirit of Humanity. Cynthia Mckinney, without support from her own government, stood up for the principals on which her country was founded 233 years ago and spent Independence Day inside a foreign jail. All people of peace and good salute her and her colleagues who sailed the Freegaza Spirit of Humanity with the universal message of self determination
By Eileen Fleming The altruistic, courageous, righteously angry, FreeGaza21 inspired me to re-read Letter from a Birmingham Jail a scalding critique of American Christianity that Reverend Martin Luther King addressed to his Dear Fellow Clergymen who had abandoned him. I have taken a few liberties with Kings masterpiece by adding and negating some words to address the ongoing turmoil in Israel Palestine in light of the FreeGaza21
By Jonathan CookIsraels housing minister called for strict segregation between the countrys Jewish and Arab populations last week as he unveiled plans to move large numbers of fundamentalist religious Jews to Israels north to prevent what he described as an Arab takeover of the region
By Dan LiebermanSo, if Israel is destroying Jerusalems heritage and subjugating its spiritual meaning, why does Israel want to unify Jerusalem?
By Saree Makdisi What Netanyahu was saying to any Palestinians foolish enough to accept his terms is that if they want to stick a flag in their archipelago of little impoverished islands of territory and call it a state, they can go right ahead