Yvonne Ridley
Ever since a group of ordinary people from more than 40 different countries came together and set sail for Gaza have we seen various world leaders scramble to persuade Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza. Why? To honour the memory of those martyred by Israeli soldiers who shot nine unarmed peace activists at virtually point-blank range? Hell no!
AMERICA is still embarrassed by the infamous McCarthy Hearings which ruined the lives of thousands of innocents during the Fifties.
The full extent of the atrocities carried out by Israeli on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla are beginning to emerge as the survivors return home with their powerful eye witness accounts.
The U.S. has reached a new level in its discredited War on Terror just when we thought it could not sink any lower.
There are some significant milestones approaching which serve to remind all peace and freedom-loving people of our duty to recall the errors of the past so we can avoid making the same mistakes in the future.
As I write this, two NATO rockets have just slaughtered around a dozen innocent Afghan civilians during the latest military assault in the war torn country.
I am beginning to wonder what is the point of David Miliband - a question I've no doubt Gordon Brown posed just a few days ago following the failed coup to have him ousted.
"Why is there even a trial?" It was, of course, a rhetorical question and probably the most poignant and telling observation made during the opening proceedings against Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in New York this week.
I've never met Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit but he reckons I am a very bad European along with the 1400 other peace activists from the Gaza Freedom March who are trapped in Cairo on New Year's Eve.
I wonder how many of you have woken up to the fact that America's latest leader is really a political Houdini ... an illusionist on a presidential scale.
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