Lauren Booth, Tony Blair's sister-in-law, shopping in Gaza's "concentration camp"
Scenes from "The World's Largest Concentration Camp"
Lauren Booth [pictured above], sister-in-law of former British premier Tony Blair, entered Gaza aboard a protest boat on August 23. While most of her fellow protesters left on the same boat they arrived on, she and several other activists chose to remain behind.
In an interview with Ynet News, Booth described Gaza as "the largest concentration camp in the world today" and a "humanitarian crisis on the scale of Darfur."
Booth was later photographed at a well-stocked grocery store in the so-called "concentration camp."
(Honest Reporting-BBC News)
Place Onus for Peace Where It Belongs - on Palestinians -David A. HarrisScenes from "The World's Largest Concentration Camp"
Lauren Booth [pictured above], sister-in-law of former British premier Tony Blair, entered Gaza aboard a protest boat on August 23. While most of her fellow protesters left on the same boat they arrived on, she and several other activists chose to remain behind.
In an interview with Ynet News, Booth described Gaza as "the largest concentration camp in the world today" and a "humanitarian crisis on the scale of Darfur."
Booth was later photographed at a well-stocked grocery store in the so-called "concentration camp."
(Honest Reporting-BBC News)
In Gaza, Israel has shown remarkable restraint in the face of endless provocation. I don't know of many other nations that would have endured daily barrages without a robust military response.
The real reasons for the absence of peace lie elsewhere. Too many in the Arab world have been fed a steady diet of Israel as an illegitimate nation, a colonial project of the West that must be eliminated.
To make matters worse, Israel has damaged the self-image and self-respect of the Arab world by refusing to be defeated in battle. How can it be that this tiny nation, deprived of any significant natural resources, has withstood the Arab onslaught for six decades and emerged not only as the strongest military power in the region, but also the most politically and economically advanced?
(Philadelphia Jewish Exponent)
2 comments:
Although I mistakenly commented about the first part of this post elsewhere, as for the second part, I would ay a big part of the onus also belongs with other Arab nations. They have fostered the sense that Israel might someday go away, and that the Palestinians are the only rightful inhabitants of the land. The Arab nations seem unwilling to try to assimilate the Palestinians, or to make many changes in their homelands. They seem to need Israel, or perhaps once did, to keep the focus off of their own failings for their people.
True that Israel serves as a regional punching bag, no doubt to unite those societies that would otherwise wonder whom is responsible for the third class status of much the Moslem world.
I found it most stiking that a prominent elite like Ms. Booth would throw her lot in with Hamas. I hope Tony Blair is sufficiently embarrased his sister-in-laws disgusting behavior.
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