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April 1, 2008 at 14:14:55

April 1, 2008: No joke; that really was me on PRESS TV, from Tehran, Iran Sunday 2-3PM EST.

by Eileen Fleming Page 1 of 4 page(s)

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On March 30th, Land Day and Sunday morning, I opened up an email from PRESS TV, Tehran, Iran:

Hello Eileen Fleming

This is ...coordinator at Press TV, which is based in Tehran Iran. Dear Eileen I have read your articles and I must say that you are very talented and dedicated journalist. And I am sure it is more than a job for you.

Dear Eileen, here in Press TV, we cover Middle East quite often and in my program 4 Corners we are always in need of great experts who have something to contribute and not afraid to express their views…you fit into that category…

The coordinator at Press TV ended her email with a cut and paste of these lyrics from my home page, written and sung by George Harrison, which was also his lead song at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971:

If you open up your heart

You will see what I mean

You've been kept down so long

YOU think that we're all green

The lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see

The lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see

The lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see...

I was informed that Press TV had read my Land Day article [1] and were interested in talking to me about Land Day on the air. Thinking it would be over the phone, I agreed as, I have done radio interviews before. I am quite relaxed while perched in front of my website, as I know where to go for facts and links.

I went for a swim in the back porch pool and while in the shower the phone rang incessantly. Still dripping, I grabbed the phone next to the bathtub and it was Caesar, from South America, who worked with PRESS TV. He had located a satellite connection an hour from my home.

With my hair still wet, I arrived at Adrenalin Films on the east side of Orlando, ten minutes before air time. I was quickly wired up from inside my jacket with an ear piece that kept popping out. My only view was into the dark room and I was told to look into the camera and keep smiling.

I asked, "Where's the camera?"

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Gary Vance is an evangelical pastor/writer living in rural Tennessee. He is the author of "Wasn't Jesus a Liberal?" and other published essays.
Gary VanceGary Vance is an evangelical pastor/writer living in rural Tennessee. He is the author of "Wasn't Jesus a Liberal?" and other published essays.

Excellent work!

Thank you Eileen for this post. Do you have a link to the television broadcast? You are doing excellent work and I am thankful for your voice. I pray more television doors open for the message you bring.

by Gary Vance (14 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 13 comments) on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 9:11:58 AM

Eileen is the Reporter and Editor of wearewideawake.orgProducer of "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" She has been to Israel Palestine five times since June 2005.
She is currently working on "The Boom Boom Benny Story"
Eileen FlemingEileen is the Reporter and Editor of wearewideawake.orgProducer of "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" She has been to Israel Palestine five times since June 2005.
She is currently working on "The Boom Boom Benny Story"

Hi G + thanks

4 Corners TV Show: 30 Mar. 2008: A Land Grabbed

http://www.presstv.ir/pop/wmp.aspx?id=49658

PS- The conservative Jerusalem Post corroborated the Walid Shoebatt story that I broke on WAWA Blog with exclusive to OPN:

The Palestinian 'terrorist' turned Zionist

jorg luyken , THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 30, 2008

......However, Shoebat's claim to have bombed Bank Leumi in Bethlehem is rejected by members of his family who still live in the area, and Bank Leumi says it has no record of such an attack ever taking place. His relatives, members of the Shoebat family, are mystified by the notion of "Walid Shoebat" being an assumed name. And the Walid Shoebat Foundation's working process is less than transparent, with Shoebat's claim that it is registered as a charity in the state of Pennsylvania being denied by the Pennsylvania State Attorney's Office. Shoebat's claim to have been a terrorist rests on his account of the purported bombing of Bank Leumi. But after checking its files, the bank said it had no record of an attack on its Bethlehem branch anywhere in the relevant 1977-79 period.....

.....If the Bank Leumi bombing claim is unfounded, it is unclear why Shoebat would have wanted to manufacture a terrorist past. True or not, however, it has plainly brought him some prominence and provided him with a means to speak in favor of Israel and be paid for doing so.

by Eileen Fleming (146 articles, 51 quicklinks, 266 diaries, 580 comments) on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 10:13:39 AM