I (Steve Wallis) have just posted the following comment on the blog entry of a reporter currently in Gaza from the British TV station Channel 4 below, which puts the hostility between Israelis and Palestinians into context blogs.channel4/paul-mason-blog/brit-gaza-fault-line-heard-lot/2094 (its awaiting moderation): As someone who has campaigned on the streets and the internet on this issue, particularly highlighting the role of Barclays Bank in funding the drone-making company El-Bit (Elbit Systems) that has dropped bombs/missiles on Gaza, Ive really appreciated your reports on Channel 4 News showing real empathy with the ordinary people there. I also particularly appreciate you probably having been the first reporter on British TV to mention the use of drones in the sky above Gaza (Rageh Omaar on ITV has since done likewise but I dont think the BBC have yet). Such unmanned aerial vehicles are produced by Elbit (as their Wikipedia page confirms) and a petition by BankTrack linked to in my e-petition below was my source of Barclays funding them and their use to drop bombs in Gaza, a practice that surely increases the number of civilian casualties (the Guardian have now reported the use of a drone in the attack near the latest UN school - see a link in an update to the e-petition below). I of course appreciate your explanation of the circumstances that have led to the ongoing hostility between the Israeli and Palestinian people on this blog entry - and the prominence given to it on the Channel 4 News website is very welcome. To read/sign my e-petition for a boycott of Barclays, go to https://change.org/petitions/barclays-plc-we-ll-boycott-you-until-you-stop-funding-the-israeli-arms-industry
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:43:26 +0000
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