West Bank is a ghetto, too– now Israel is freaking out over int’l airport action this week

Philip Weiss (Mondoweiss)
I am in a good mood, are you? Because I believe the flotilla succeeded. We had a huge wave of publicity over the fact that a bunch of peaceable activists were simply trying to get into Gaza by boat and the Israeli gov't flipped out and pulled international strings to stop them. Last year they had to kill 9 people, this year they had to muscle the American and Greek governments. Yesterday, I am told, the New York Times ran a big piece about the flotilla with two photographs. So all this hysteria is undermining the image of democracy, openness, and in the end the focus must be on What is Israel trying to hide behind the ghetto walls? Here is Noam Sheizaf on the next campaign, for people to fly into Ben Gurion this week, and Israel is already flipping out. Excerpt:
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