From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Without a flag, we cannot sail.

But this is not the end. Israel cannot and will not crush our resolve to break its

illegal siege and reach the people of Gaza.

As the death toll in Gaza nears 35,000,

Israel again blocks life-saving aid.

We'll speak with Kueida Arraf, one of hundreds of activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla, who've been

held back in Turkey after Guinea-Bissau withdrew its flagships under pressure from Israel.

We'll also speak with Israeli-American author Aielet Waldman

and U.S. Rabbi Alyssa Wise. They were among seven arrested by Israeli police Friday at the Gaza border while trying to bring food

into Gaza and accusing Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war against Palestinians.

The reason we came all the way across the world

is because the crisis is at a scale that's unimaginable

and we can't simply stay where we are and not try to do what we can, however we can, to bring

attention to this crisis and to stop this crisis.

And we'll look at a new sci-fi documentary about the once thriving Palestinian city of Lid

that presents an alternate reality in which the residents were not expelled in the Nachba in 1948.

We use the story of Lid to symbolize the story of the Nachba, the Palestinian Nachba,

the demolition and expulsion of over 600 villages all across Palestine.

So in a way the story of Lid is the story of Palestine.

We'll speak with the Palestinian filmmaker, originally Fromlid, and his co-director,

and American Jewish director. All that and more coming up.

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