Jeff Halper Arrested on Leaving Gaza

More on those Gaza blockade-running boats. Jeff Halper, the great Israeli activist on the occupation, was on one of them and was arrested when he reentered Israel, taken to the police station in Sderot. JPost said he was violating the southern command or some such, unauthorized entry into the territories. Very Coetzee/Waiting for the Barbarians...

Comments

[samuel burke]

http://counterpunch.com/roberts08262008.html
The power of the Israel Lobby is an important component of keeping Americans in the dark. Recently I watched a documentary that demonstrates the control that the Israel Lobby exercises over Americans’ view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The documentary is available here.

As a result of the US media’s one-sided coverage, few Americans are aware that for decades Israel has been ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their homes and lands under protection of America’s veto in the United Nations. Instead, the dispossessed Palestinians are portrayed as mindless terrorists who attack innocent Israel.

If one reads Israeli newspapers, such as Haaretz, or publications from Israeli organizations, such as the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, one gets a radically different view of the situation than the propagandistic version delivered by US media and evangelical pulpits.

Most Americans know of the 2000 attack by Muslim terrorists on the USS Cole in Aden harbor that resulted in 17 dead and 39 wounded American sailors. But few have heard of Israel’s 1967 attack on the USS Liberty that left 34 American sailors dead and 174 wounded. Pressured by the Israel Lobby, President Johnson ordered Admiral McCain, father of the Republican presidential nominee, to cover up the attack. To this day there never has been a congressional investigation.

[LanceThruster]

I heard Jeff Halper being interviewed shortly before the trip. What a wonderful and caring man. This just goes to illustrate what the people of the region are up against and how anyone attempting to assist them will be harassed as well. I hope he is released safely.
~

[Sol Salbe]

Halper has been released see http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/27/content_9718970.htm

[Sol Salbe]

Halper has been released see http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/27/content_9718970.htm