Monday, February 18, 2008

Looking Back: Bush's Checkpoint Gaffe

News conferences are heavily orchestrated events [GALLO/GETTY]

10 January, 2008

“Bush don’t intervene in our lives.”- Palestinian father in ambulance at Checkpoint.

As George Bush, the US president, tours Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories Al Jazeera discusses the significance of his attempted joke regarding checkpoints in the West Bank.

Rob Reynolds looks at Bush's news conference with falsified representative Mahmoud Abbas, while Ayman Moyheldin examines the daily struggles that Palestinians face negotiating the checkpoints.


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