Trade Not Aid Convoy to Gaza - Aloha Palestine - Samouni Project

After five years of an illegal and brutal blockade of Gaza, a plan is finally announced to replace aid with trade.

Salem-News.com's Ken O'Keefe at the press conference in London

(LONDON) - Many Salem-News.com readers are already familiar with the efforts to aid the Samouni family of Gaza; one that was heavily targeted during Israel's 'Cast Lead' attack over the winter of 2008 and 2009.

The Samouni clan is the focus but they are only one family in Gaza where 1-7 million human beings live in an open air prison surrounded by walls and fences and an Israeli patrolled sea.

Only recently has the border at Rafah, Egypt partially opened; it opens the door to hope and that is one of the main guiding lights in a society so darkened by oppression and occupation.

You will want to stay dialed into http://Trade-Not-Aid.net - After five years of an illegal and brutal blockade of Gaza, a plan is finally announced to replace aid with trade so that the Palestinian people can shed their charitable dependency status in Gaza and live in dignity by developing their own economy.

This is the bottom line; charity and human aid efforts matter, but the ability to self-sustain will build quality of life and security for everyone in the region.

So much is needed, so much has been destroyed, and while Gaza tries to find a way to rebuild, people here are suffering from massive levels of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and illegal weapons like white phosphorous and others left thousands of men, women and children scarred, disfigured, dismembered.

Just a sampling of our past reports that detail far more about the Samouni family:

• Today My Name is Samouni, and I am Palestinian - Tim King Salem-News.com
• Samouni Family Olive Tree Orchard in Gaza - Ken O'Keefe Salem-News.com
• Samouni Family Responds to Justice Goldstone Backtrack on Israeli War Crimes - Ken O'Keefe Salem-News.com
• The Samouni Family Children - Survivors of the Israeli Massacre - Ken O'Keefe Salem-News.com
• A Mother's Loss - Operation Cast Lead Mass-Murder - Ken O'Keefe Salem-News.com
• Israel Launches Operation Cast Lead Investigation - Salem-News.com
• Murdering Babies is 'Permissible' When They're Palestinian - Alison Weir Salem-News.com
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  Ken is a former U.S. Marine who served in the 1991 Gulf War and subsequently spoke out about the use of depleted uranium as a "crime against humanity" and the US military using soldiers as "human guinea pigs" with experimental drugs that were directly linked to Gulf War syndrome. He is also a social entrepreneur utilizing direct action marine conservation, he is more widely known for leading the human shield action to Iraq and as a survivor of the Israeli attack on the MV Mavi Marmara in which he participated in "defending the ship" and "disarming two Israeli Commandos". On January 7, 2004, O'Keefe burned his US passport in protest of "American Imperialism" and called for US troops to immediately withdrawal from Iraq. He replaced his US passport with a "World Passport", subsequently proclaiming himself a "Citizen of the World" with “ultimate allegiance to my entire human family and to planet Earth." His is also legal citizen of Ireland and Palestine citizenship. Read Ken O'Keefe's Biography, you can also visit Ken's Ken's Website alohapalestine.com

  
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  JohnWV June 23, 2011 4:13 am (Pacific time)
  

  Israel has reduced Gaza to an open air prison and collectively tortures and kills its inmates by merely denying necessities. The Jewish State's cruel abuse of their goyim inferiors is on vivid display to the whole world. Peaceful flotillas, diplomacy or violence, anything, ANYTHING that can be done to extricate the Palestinians from the occupiers of their homeland is justified and commendable. May the Palestinian State be established and thrive on punitive reparations so massive that Israel's very existence is justly threatened.

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