Military Resistance 8E18 31 May, 2010: In Memoriam
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Massacre News Roundup 31 May, 2010
31 May, 2010 — Creative-i
For convenience, I’ve gathered together all the stories published so far (19:41 London time) on the barbaric attack by the Israeli military on 700-800 unarmed people attempting to deliver aid to Gaza, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens more. The remainder have been abducted and taken apparently to Ashdod.
- CounterCurrents Newsletter 31 May, 2010: World Outcry Over Israeli Flotilla Attack
- Electronic Intifada Editorial: International solidarity and the Freedom Flotilla massacre
- Up to 19 reported killed as Israel disrupts Gaza humanitarian effort
- More stories on the Israeli massacre
- Gaza Freedom Flotilla Emergency Action Alert
- Real News Video Coverage of the Freedom Flotilla Massacre
- Live Stream from Turkish’s IHH Mission to Gaza
- Welcome to BBC Israel By William Bowles
- Audrey Bomse Member Of Gaza Flotilla Responds To Israeli Press Conference On Attack
- Israeli Butchery at Sea by Gilad Atzmon
- PCHR Condemns Israeli Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
- AIC: Israel Commits Massacre, Piracy in International Waters against Freedom Flotilla
- Only a government that crossed all red lines By Uri Avnery
- BBC Shameful Reporting of Israeli Army Murder of Aid Activists
- Israel attacks Gaza flotilla – live coverage
- Israel attacks Gaza aid flotilla – activists killed
- 19 Killed as Israelis storm Freedom Flotilla
- Latest from Witness Gaza
- URGENT ACTION NEEDED: ISRAELI TROOPS STORM GAZA FLOTILLA AND KILL 19: DEMONSTRATE TODAY
- Video: 20 killed, Israel attacks Gaza aid fleet; protests in Turkey
- An Open Letter by Jeff Halper to the Israeli Jewish Public: Support the Gaza Flotilla By Jeff Halper
- Video report from Turkey
- Terrorist Attack in International Water: more than 10 massacred and dozens injured, including MEPs
- Israel attacks Gaza aid fleet – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
- Video – Israeli forces storm Gaza aid ship
- ISRAELIS KILL 10 STORMING GAZA FLOTILLA EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION TODAY 31 MAY 2.00PM DOWNING STREET LONDON SPREAD THE WORD
- GAZA AID FLOTILLA ATTACKED, 10 KILLED – GEORGE GALLOWAY SPEAKS OUT
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CounterCurrents Newsletter 31 May, 2010: World Outcry Over Israeli Flotilla Attack
Israel Attacks Freedom Flotilla: 19 Killed
By Aljazeera
http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera310510.htm
Israeli commandos have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing up to 19 people on board. Dozens of others were injured when troops raided the convoy of six ships, dubbed the Freedom Flotilla, early on MondayWorld Outcry Over Israeli Flotilla Attack
By Ma’an News Agency
http://www.countercurrents.org/maan310510.htm
International outcry is pouring over Israeli flotilla attackEnd Israeli Impunity Now
By Cynthia McKinney
http://www.countercurrents.org/mckinney310510.htm
Cynthia McKinney Mourns the Dead of the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza: People of the U.S. and the world must end Israeli impunity now!The Gaza Flotilla – Your Move, Mr. President
By Alan Hart
http://www.countercurrents.org/hart310510.htm
As I write from America, with the drama and implications of Israel’s murderous attack on the Gaza Flotilla still being played out, I find myself wondering if President Obama will have the balls to say to Israel, “Enough is enough”“Those Responsible Must Be Held Criminally Accountable”
By Richard Falk (UN Rapporteur for Palestine)
http://www.countercurrents.org/falk310510.htm
This incident should serve as a wakeup call for a complicit international communityIsrael: Massacre At Sea
By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar
http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar310510.htm
The cold-blooded massacre of 20 unarmed peace activists by commandos from the Israeli army in the eastern Mediterranean in the early hours of 31st May 2010 has once again revealed to the world what this rogue regime is all about. It is evil incarnateBrave Israeli Commandos Slaughter Aid Activists at Sea
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman310510.htm
Even America’s major media can’t duck a crime this grave – attacking and slaughtering up to 20 Gaza Freedom Flotilla activists and injuring dozens more“Criminal Pirate” Israel Makes A Fool Of The OECD Only Days After It Clasped The Viper To Its Bosom
By Stuart Littlewood
http://www.countercurrents.org/littlewood310510.htm
This morning I’m hearing reports of 20 or more dead and dozens injured after Israeli forces attacked the Free Gaza flotilla in international waters and gunned down unarmed crew and passengers. This is no surprise. Israel had been threatening for weeks to use violence, as is its style, to intercept the peaceful missionWelcome To BBC Israel
By William Bowles
http://www.countercurrents.org/bowles310510.htm
The BBC has outdone itself this time with an outrageous piece of blatant Israeli propagandaAttack On Freedom Flotilla Was Beyond The Pale
By Gul Jammas Hussain
http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain310510.htm
The blood of the men and women who sacrificed their lives on Monday for the cause of Palestine will not have been spilt in vain and will usher in a new era of hope for the oppressed people of PalestineCountercurrents And You !
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Electronic Intifada Editorial: International solidarity and the Freedom Flotilla massacre
31 May 2010 — Editorial, The Electronic Intifada
Early this morning under the cover of darkness Israeli soldiers stormed the lead ship of the six-vessel Freedom Flotilla aid convoy in international waters and killed and injured dozens of civilians aboard. All the ships were violently seized by Israeli forces, but hours after the attack fate of the passengers aboard the other ships remained unknown.
The Mavi Marmara was carrying around 600 activists when Israeli warships flanked it from all sides as soldiers descended from helicopters onto the ship’s deck. Reports from people on board the ship backed up by live video feeds broadcast on Turkish TV show that Israeli forces used live ammunition against the civilian passengers, some of whom resisted the attack with sticks and other items.
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Up to 19 reported killed as Israel disrupts Gaza humanitarian effort
31 May, 2010 — RT Top Stories
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Up to 19 people have been killed and more than 30 injured after Israeli military attacked a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, international media report.
Russian news agency Itar-Tass reports that the death toll on Monday noon was about 19, referring to Sky News channel.
According to Israeli media, Israeli soldiers are also among those injured.
Early Monday morning the Israeli navy intercepted the fleet of ships about hundred kilometers off the coast of Gaza. They sent out warning signals for the ships to turn round. A detention center has been established in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod to hold those activists who refuse to turn back. Israeli forces insist that they want to check the cargo aboard.
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Flotilla attack, some names released of captured or injured in Flotilla attack
31 May, 2010 — Viva Palestina
1 June, 2010 — See Updated List Here
George Galloway today released the names and photographs of 12 of the British people captured or injured in the Israeli assault which took place in the early hours of this morning aboard the Turkish Humanitarian ship ’Mavi Marmara.
As far as we know our colleagues are not injured.
Urgent help is requested by everyone to alert the FCO in London, demand that a safe passage for these innocent people is immediately made. Demand that they are all treated fairly and are all provided with medical assistance. Demand that the FCO are provided with proof by the Israeli government that these people are all safe and demand their whereabouts now!
 1. Kevin Ovenden |
 2. Nicola Enchmarch |
 3. Nader Daher |
 4. Hassan Ghan |
 5. Alex Phillips |
 6. Ashan Shamrak |
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8. Alex Harrison
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9. Ismail Patel
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10. Sidique Hajee
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11. Ibrahim Musaji
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12. Peter Viner
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13. Mohammed Bayyat |
7. Sarah ColbourneCall The Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London 020 7008 1500 and provide the names as above as missing.
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Building What? How SCADs Can Be Hidden in Plain Sight: The 9/11 “Official Story” and the Collapse of WTC Building Seven By Prof David Ray Griffin
30 May, 2010 — Global Research – 911Truth.org – 2010-05-29
At 5:21 PM on 9/11, Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed, even though it had not been hit by a plane – a fact that is important because of the widespread acceptance of the idea, in spite of its scientific absurdity, that the Twin Towers collapsed because of the combined effect of the impact of the airliners plus the ensuing jet-fuel-fed fires. The collapse of World Trade Center 7 (WTC 7) thereby challenges the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Center, according to which it was accomplished by al-Qaeda hijackers, even if one accepts the government’s scientifically impossible account of the Twin Towers. This fact was recently emphasized in the title of a review article based on my 2009 book, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7,[1] by National Medal of Science-winner Lynn Margulis: “Two Hit, Three Down – The Biggest Lie.”[2]
1. Why the Collapse of WTC 7 Created an Extraordinary Problem
The collapse of WTC 7 created an extraordinary problem for the official account of 9/11 for several reasons.
An Unprecedented Occurrence
One reason is that, because of the collapse of WTC 7, the official account of 9/11 includes the dubious claim that, for the first time in the known universe, a steel-frame high-rise building was brought down by fire, and science looks askance at claims of unprecedented occurrences regarding physical phenomena. New York Times writer James Glanz, who himself has a Ph.D. in physics, wrote: “[E]xperts said no building like it, a modern, steel-reinforced high-rise, had ever collapsed because of an uncontrolled fire.” Glanz then quoted a structural engineer as saying: “[W]ithin the structural engineering community, [WTC 7] is considered to be much more important to understand [than the Twin Towers],” because engineers had no answer to the question, “why did 7 come down?”[3]
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More stories on the Israeli massacre
31 May, 2010
Israeli Massacres Go International; Commandos Kill 20 Free Gaza Activists
Israeli occupation forces massacred 20 activists on board the Gaza-bound “Freedom” flotilla Sunday overnight and Monday, according to the Israeli TV. 60 other people were also injured. The killing took place in international waters. Among the injured, leader of the Islamic Movement’s northern branch in the occupied territories Sheikh Raed Salah whose injuries are serious, according to reports. Israeli marine commandos had opened …
Turkey to Call UN Meeting over Israeli Attack, Recalls Envoy
Turkey will call an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over Israel’s deadly raid on aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip, a Turkish diplomat told AFP Monday as above tens of thousands of people went out to Turkish streets condemning the Israeli inhumane act. Turkey also recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said. “Our ambassador to Israel has been recalled to Ankara,” Arinc told a press …
Massive Condemnation in Lebanon of Israel’s Crime
The Israeli massacre of at least 20 activists on board the Gaza-bound aid ship drew widespread condemnations in Lebanon. HEZBOLLAH MP: IF THEY FAIL TO ACT TO LIF THE GAZA SIEGE, SITUATION IN REGION WILL GET WORSE Hezbollah MP Hasan Fadlallah denounced the Israeli massacre as a “crime against humanity” and called on the international community to take action. “This is a premeditated crime against humanity by the Israelis,” Fadlallah told …
International powers are closing ranks in condemning the deadly raid.
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Emergency Action Alert
31 May, 2010 — Palestine Solidarity Committee
Israeli commandos descending from helicopters stormed the six-boat flotilla in the early hours of Monday morning, killing 20 while it was in international waters, about 90 miles (150km) from Gaza, where Israel has no jurisdiction
WRITE TO WILLIAM HAGUE AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE – THE UK GOVERNMENT MUST END ITS SILENCE RECALL BRITAIN’S AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL
Click here http://www.psc.iparl.com/lobby/49 and use our online tool to send an email to Mr Hague. It takes less than two minutes.
You can also cut and paste the email below, and send it to deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg at cleggn@parliament.uk
Dear Mr Clegg
Israeli naval forces this morning stormed a peaceful flotilla of boats delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza, and killed 20 of the unarmed civilians on board. Dozens more have been injured. Forty British nationals were on the flotilla. None of them have yet been accounted for.
Will the British government continue to maintain its complicit silence over the attack, or will it finally speak out and condemn Israel’s piracy and murder on international waters?
You had the opportunity to defend British citizens sailing with the flotilla, and demand safe passage for them and the vital aid they were carrying, but you chose not to do so.
You now have the opportunity to stand up for international law, and to lead the international community in condemning Israel’s actions and holding them to account.
I call on you to take this opportunity. Your political and moral obligations lie with those who seek to peacefully deliver aid, not with a country which repeatedly violates international law.
Yours sincerely
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) aims to raise public awareness about the occupation of Palestine and the struggle of the Palestinian people. PSC seek to bring pressure on both the British and Israeli government to bring their policies in line with international law. PSC is an independent, non-governmental and non-party political organisation with members from communities across the UK. Join PSC today!
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Ten Things You Need (But Don’t Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill By Daniela Perdomo
29 May, 2010 — Global Research – AlterNet – 2010-05-27
How the owner of the exploded oil rig has made $270 million off the disaster, and nine other shocking, depressing facts about the oil spill.
It’s been 37 days since BP’s offshore oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, crude oil has been hemorrhaging into ocean waters and wreaking unknown havoc on our ecosystem — unknown because there is no accurate estimate of how many barrels of oil are contaminating the Gulf.
Though BP officially admits to only a few thousand barrels spilled each day, expert estimates peg the damage at 60,000 barrels or over 2.5 million gallons daily. (Perhaps we’d know more if BP hadn’t barred independent engineers from inspecting the breach.) Measures to quell the gusher have proved lackluster at best, and unlike the country’s last big oil spill — Exxon-Valdez in 1989 — the oil is coming from the ground, not a tanker, so we have no idea how much more oil could continue to pollute the Gulf’s waters.
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Real News Video Coverage of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Massacre
31 May, 2010 — The Real News Network
Five video reports from The Real News Network
20 killed, Israel attacks Gaza aid fleet Pt1 | Press TV coverage of Gaza aid convoy
20 killed, Israel attacks Gaza aid fleet Pt2 | Press TV coverage of Gaza aid convoy May 31, 2010
At least 10 dead in Israeli raid | EuroNews: At least 10 people are reported to have been killed in a raid by Israeli commandos on convoy May 31, 2010
Israeli navy storms Gaza aid ship | AlJazeera: Israeli military opens fire on convoy of aid ships trying to break Gaza blockade May 31, 2010
16 reported killed in Gaza aid flotilla | AlJazeera: Israel attacks Gaza aid flotilla – 16 activists killed May 31, 2010
The Editor
Welcome to BBC Israel By William Bowles
31 May, 2010 — Creative-i
The BBC has outdone itself this time with an outrageous piece of blatant Israeli propaganda.
It was a tossup: should I go to the demonstration outside 10 Downing Street today (31/5/10) or write this piece on the absolutely outrageous ‘coverage’ by the BBC of the massacre of at least nineteen people by the Israeli military in international waters?
“It happened about 40 miles (64 km) out to sea, in international waters. — ‘Deaths as Israeli forces storm Gaza aid ship’, BBC, 31 May, 2010
The BBC seems not to care that attacking ships in international waters is a crime under a variety of international laws. Had it been off the coast of Somalia, then no doubt the BBC would have called it piracy but it’s Israel that’s the pirate and a murdering one at that, so the BBC conveniently omits any reference to it.
The short video (lifted from Turkish media coverage) ‘Israeli navy storms Gaza aid ship’ on the BBC Website is echoed by a virtually identical piece, ‘Deaths as Israeli forces storm Gaza aid ship’, put out a few hours later, is the BBC’s entire online coverage of what is now clearly revealed as a massacre of unarmed civilians with dozens reportedly injured and all 700-800 people abducted by the Israeli military and taken to Ashdod, in Israel. (The earlier link now takes you to the one remaining piece, see below.)
The attack came in international waters approximately 65 kilometers off the coast of Gaza according to witnesses, with Israeli storm-troopers shooting as they boarded.
But back to the BBC’s ‘news’ coverage. The first one has now been heavily abridged with a link to the later piece. Correction: in a nifty piece of editing the earlier piece has now been replaced by the later one, but in the now deleted entry, had you been quick enough, you could have read the following,
“Well clearly when you’ve got as many as 600 people on board these ships at night in the high seas, it is a very very difficult situation and you can imagine a rather chaotic situation. Of course the Israeli military is very well experienced at dealing with crowd control. But certainly you’ve got live fire being fired as well as teargas canisters which is what is being reported was fired then that is a very dangerous situation in a crowded space” — Now removed from the BBC Website
Instead, in the one remaining ‘news’ story we find the following outrageous ‘analysis’ by BBC’s Jonathan Marcus, allegedly a BBC diplomatic correspondent:
This was always going to be a high-risk operation for Israel both in terms of reputation and diplomatic repercussions.
Taking over vessels at sea is no easy task, even if the units carrying out the mission are well-trained, and it is especially difficult if the people already on board the vessels resist.
The full details of what happened will emerge in time, but in political terms the damage has already been done.
The deaths threaten to make what was always going to be a potential public relations disaster for Israel into a fully-fledged calamity. — ‘Deaths as Israeli forces storm Gaza aid ship’, BBC Website, 31 May, 2010
So it seems that the BBC care only about Israel’s reputation and that it will undoubtedly be a ‘public relations disaster’. The deaths of at least nineteen unarmed people doesn’t figure in the BBC’s universe of spin. Why should my license fee be used to condone the actions of a genocidal and clearly psychopathic government?
If you think the BBC will listen, you can contact them either to leave a comment or to complain:
Post comments to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/10195838.stm and complain to http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/homepage/
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Audrey Bomse Member Of Gaza Flotilla Responds To Israeli Press Conference On Attack
31 May, 2010 — Dandelion Salad
more about “Audrey Bomse Member Of Gaza Flotilla …“, posted with vodpod
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Israeli Butchery at Sea by Gilad Atzmon
31 May, 2010 — Gilad Atzmon – Writings
As I write this piece the scale of the Israeli lethal slaughter at sea is yet to be clear. However we already know that at around 4am Gaza time, hundreds of IDF commandos stormed the Free Gaza international humanitarian fleet. We learn from the Arab press that at least 16 peace activists have been murdered and more than 50 were injured. Once again it is devastatingly obvious that Israel is not trying to hide its true nature: an inhuman murderous collective fuelled by a psychosis and driven by paranoia.
For days the Israeli government prepared the Israeli society for the massacre at sea. It said that the Flotilla carried weapons, it had ‘terrorists’ on board. Only yesterday evening it occurred to me that this Israeli malicious media spin was there to prepare the Israeli public for a full scale Israeli deadly military operation in international waters. Make no mistake. If I knew exactly where Israel was heading and the possible consequences, the Israeli cabinet and military elite were fully aware of it all the way along. What happened yesterday wasn’t just a pirate terrorist attack. It was actually murder in broad day light even though it happened in the dark.
Yesterday at 10 pm I contacted Free Gaza and shared with them everything I knew. I obviously grasped that hundreds of peace activists most of them elders, had very little chance against the Israeli killing machine. I was praying all night for our brothers and sisters. At 5am GMT the news broke to the world. In international waters Israel raided an innocent international convoy of boats carrying cement, paper and medical aid to the besieged Gazans. The Israelis were using live ammunition murdering and injuring everything around them.
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PCHR Condemns Israeli Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
31 May, 2010 — PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Release
Ref: 42/2010
Date: 31 May 2010
Time: 8:15 GMT
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the crime perpetrated by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) earlier this morning, 31 May 2010, when Israeli Naval Forces attacked the “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” in international waters as it was sailing towards the Gaza Strip. IOF used excessive and lethal force in its attack on the ships, which left dozens of international civilian solidarity activists who were on board dead or injured.
Today’s crime is hideous, and it is a shame for the international community to remain silent while IOF commits systematic war crimes against civilians.
PCHR believes that Israel would not continue to commit crimes and attacks against civilians, including the crime committed today against the “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” and those international solidarity activists aboard, if the international community did not remain silent, thereby failing to fulfill its obligations and duties to enforce international law and provide protection for civilians.
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PACBI Statement: British Academic Union Severs Links with Histadrut, Boycotts Ariel College
31 May, 2010 — PACBI
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) expresses its profound appreciation for the courageous positions in support of Palestinian rights taken by the membership of the University and College Union (UCU) at its Congress today in Manchester. The UCU has again firmly and decisively established its unwavering commitment to the Palestinian civil society’s campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) againstIsrael until it complies with its obligations under international law and recognizes the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. Making history in the international trade union movement in the West, UCU’s Congress also voted with an overwhelming majority to “sever all relations with Histadrut, and to urge other trade unions and bodies to do likewise.” The UCU has today confirmed its established position that it is legitimate to denounce Israel’s oppressive policies and to hold the state and its complicit institutions accountable for human rights abuses, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
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AIC: Israel Commits Massacre, Piracy in International Waters against Freedom Flotilla
31 May, 2010 — Alternative Information Center
This morning, 31 May 2010, the Israeli navy perpetrated a new crime against humanity when it attacked the Freedom Flotilla, bound for Gaza, sailing in international waters. On the boats were 750 people from 40 different countries, among them 44 parliamentarians and politicians. Based on the initial news after the attack, the number killed is 16 and at least 60 are wounded. All the victims are international activists who helped organized this campaign to end Israel’s aggressive siege on Gaza that has continued for three years.
This aggressive attack against the Freedom Flotilla is an astounding crime in meaning and dimension. It is an attack against unarmed civilian ships. This is a crime and an act of piracy in international waters. It is a clear breach of international laws and agreements. Despite Israel’s redeployment from Gaza in 2005, it has continued to impose a comprehensive siege against the 1.5 million people living in Gaza.
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Only a government that crossed all red lines By Uri Avnery
31 May, 2010 — Gush Shalom
Uri Avnery: this night a crime was perpetrated in the middle of the sea, by order of the government of Israel and the IDF Command
A warlike attack against aid ships and deadly shooting at peace and humanitarian aid activists It is a crazy thing that only a government that crossed all red lines can do
“Only a crazy government that has lost all restraint and all connection to reality could something like that – consider ships carrying humanitarian aid and peace activists from around the world as an enemy and send massive military force to international waters to attack them, shoot and kill.
