{"id":13999,"date":"2010-06-09T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=13999"},"modified":"2010-06-09T09:51:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:51:41","slug":"kpfk-fund-drive-day-1-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2010\/06\/09\/kpfk-fund-drive-day-1-10\/","title":{"rendered":"KPFK Fund Drive – Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"israel\"The Real Story Behind the Israel’s Raid of the Freedom Flotilla<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Israeli commando attack last week on the Freedom Flotilla bound for Gaza has left nine activists dead, and Benjamin Netanhayu\u2019s right wing Likud government more internationally isolated than ever. The activists aboard the aid flotilla intended to break Israel\u2019s four year blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza by bringing supplies to Palestinians. Eight of the nine killed were Turkish citizens, and the ninth was a 19 year old Turkish American. Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak stated that there will be internal and military investigations into the clash at sea, and to determine the legality of the blockade. In subsequent events, Israel seized a another aid ship in the flotilla, the Irish flagged Rachel Corrie. And on Sunday, Israeli naval commandos killed four Palestinians when they opened fire on a \u201csquad of militants\u201d in diving suits off the coast of Gaza. The al-Aqsa Brigades said the divers were simply conducting training exercises. On Monday, a 21 year old American activist Emily Henochowicz lots an eye after Israeli forces shot her with a tear-gas canister during a protest in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

The political firestorm resulting from the raid has also dealt a likely fatal blow to the Israel-Turkey alliance. Turkey has been one of Israel\u2019s few friends in the Islamic world and the two countries shared military technology. Israel used Turkish air space to train for a possible attack on Iran. Now, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the attacks at sea a \u201cbloody massacre\u201d and called for an end to Israel\u2019s blockade of Gaza. <\/p>\n

In the United States, anti Israeli comments made by veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas have \u201cgone viral.\u201d Thomas stated that Jews should \u201cget the hell out of Palestine . . . Remember these people are occupied. And it\u2019s their land.\u201d Thomas also stated that the Israelis should go back to Poland, Germany, and the United States. Thomas\u2019 comments caused a media frenzy obscuring serious discussion of the nature of the U.S.-Israeli alliance in the wake of the raid, and the Obama administration\u2019s recent approval of a ten year $30 Billion military aid package to Israel. <\/p>\n

GUESTS: Mary Thompson Hughes, Co-Founder Free Gaza Movement, Norman Finkelstein, prolific scholar and author of a number of books, including Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, and The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering. His latest book is called \u201cThis Time They Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Listen to the entire program The Real Story Behind the Israel’s Raid of the Freedom Flotilla The Israeli commando attack last week on the Freedom Flotilla bound for Gaza has left nine activists dead, and Benjamin Netanhayu\u2019s right wing Likud government more internationally isolated than ever. The activists aboard the aid flotilla intended to break […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-weekly-program-digest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}