Tag: Israel attacks flotilla

- Israeli Piracy Continues, Terror State Issues No Apologies - As news broke that the Israeli navy engaged in yet another act of piracy of nine Jewish activists off...

- Whose side are we on? - By Ken O'Keefe I will be returning to America in the next 36 hours as a publicly accused “terrorist...

We Americans are all Palestinians. From the two small boats that landed on August 23, 2008, we grew to six ships in the last flotilla, and will have nine to twelve in the flotilla this fall as we go back to Gaza. To borrow from Dr. King who gave a beautiful anthem for justice in Washington D.C., the Free Gaza movement knows that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. Let us see the day when we can say: "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Open Letter to the Panorama BBC Team from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate (www.peacepeople.com)  Dear BBC Panorama Team  I write to you regarding your programme of 16th...

The men who were killed ranged between 33-61 with one American Turkish young man of 19 who wanted to be a doctor who was shot five times in the head and back. There are autopsy reports available ... and there are descriptions of who they were, why they were going and how many times they were shot on our website at www.freegaza.org

Could you also determine if the State Department has made a demarche to the Israeli government concerning the circumstances surrounding the commandos deadly shooting of unarmed 19 year old American citizen Furkan Dogan, who was shot 5 times, several times to the head?

- The IDF has not become more competent in recent years. By almost all accounts—including the Israeli government’s own commission of inquiry—it performed abysmally...

By Greg  Dropkin in CounterPunch Three weeks after the massacre on the Freedom Flotilla, ILWU dockworkers in the San Francisco Bay area delayed an Israeli...

- U.S. Marine Ken O’Keefe said that two activists were already dead when he helped to disarm the first commandos that boarded the Mavi...

In the face of Israel's defiance of the world community, international law, refusal to negotiate, and deplorable human rights record including recently killing an unarmed American...

By Vittorio Arrigoni, Gaza City, Gaza Ketchup, mayonnaise, thread and needles are the items that were included last week by Israel on the list of...

Lift the Blockade of Gaza Now! Independence for Gaza. Targeting: The President of the United States, Susan Rice (US Representative to the United Nations) and Hillary...

By Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada The Palestinian Authority attempted to neutralize a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution condemning Israel's deadly attack on the...

From the Huffington Post: By Phyllis Bennis Turning points occur in every campaign for human rights and equality. There are moments when, before victory is certain...

There's a joke of sorts among Israel observers that the Massacre on the Mediterranean epitomizes Israel's weakness—Turkish human rights workers try to calm down over-weight...

- And why should ye not fight in the cause of Allah and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)?― men, women,...

By Ercan Yavus Ankara—Tension that broke out between Turkey and Israel when the latter killed eight Turkish citizens and a US citizen of Turkish origin...

Corporate-Controlled Media Under Attack by Truth Tellers and Independent Journalists Seeking to tell the Real Story The Age of Information Wages War with Old Skool Control...

From the Project on ExtraJudicialExecutions: Today, Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, released a statement calling for any Israeli inquiry into...

Iara Lee, The Electronic Intifada In the predawn hours of 31 May, I was aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, part of a convoy of...

The most recent attempt to highlight Israel’s criminal blockade and illegal occupation of Gaza was met with more Israeli piracy. See Al Jazeera and Witness...

Put simply, Israel says to the world: We do what we want when we want, we're entitled. Illegal blockade: we're entitled. Kill unarmed Americans and human...

By Selcan Hacaoglu and David Rising ISTANBUL – Mourners in Istanbul hoisted coffins Thursday to cheers of "God is great!" as they honored activists slain...

An American college student gets her eye shot out by the Israeli Army in the West Bank. Israel kills nine, including one American in the...

By SABRINA TAVERNISE and MICHAEL SLACKMAN in the NYT ISTANBUL — One of the nine people killed in an Israeli commando raid on a flotilla...

The assault on the Freedom Flotilla was not a mistake or a "completely mishandled" situation (NYT). Nor was it "folly" or "bad mistakes." (Ameircan...

Update: Israel deports human rights activists, Batch of Freedom Flotilla passengers reach Jordan as Israel drops plan to prosecute activists. This comes via Steve Clemons...

Update: Coverage of Israeli state terrorism: - Gaza Inquiry Pushed - Gaza Flotilla Attack: Guns and Blood - Gaza aid flotilla: Israeli sabotage suspected - Irish aid boat,...

Update: Israel deports human rights activists, Batch of Freedom Flotilla passengers reach Jordan as Israel drops plan to prosecute activists. --- A political meme—a set of...

News is activists are sending a new ship to challenge the Gaza blockade by Israel as the U.N. Security Council calls for a probe amid global...

- Gaza Freedom flotilla carried world-renowned names and veteran activists - Inclusion of human beings on relief missions is  not necessarily a deterrent to state murder....

As we remember the fallen today, one thing is clear: Our troops and Marines did not die for the vicious, hateful state of Israel. President...

- Massacre at Sea -  ABC News Report: White House 'Working to Understand' Israeli Attack; scheduled meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled. For...