Rep. Donna Edwards says there’s a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, endorses investigation of flotilla attack.
By Zaid Jilani Think Progress.org 08 June, 2010
As ThinkProgress has previously noted, a variety of leading American conservatives and Israeli and American officials have ignored, downplayed, or outright denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli-Egyptian embargo. While attending the America’s Future Now! conference, ThinkProgress caught up with Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) and asked her about her thoughts on these conservative denials and how she thinks U.S. policymakers should respond to the flotilla attack. She responded by saying that most international institutions agree that there is indeed a crisis in the Strip and that she endorses an investigation of the flotilla attack:
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