June 4, 2010
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“It is very clear who is the aggressor here”
‘Israel is held to a standard no one else is held to,’ Regev observed, while Shaath recalled that Israel was fully informed that there were no weapons onboard the Gaza flotilla and yet the Israeli army attacked the ship in international waters. Continue reading
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Solicitor Daniel Machover on the legal ramifications of Israel’s attack on the flotilla
4 June, 2010 http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.3768331 more about “Solicitor Daniel Machover on the lega…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Bilderberg plays into conspiracy theory by keeping silent
The Bilderberg Group is an unofficial conference of around 150 invitation-only guests who are insiders in politics, banking, business, the military and the media. The group’s meetings are held in secret and are closed to the public; activities supposedly range from strategizing world affairs to playing golf. The current conference is being held at a… Continue reading
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1967 USS Liberty survivor was onboard flotilla ship
In June 1967, the Israel military attacked the USS Liberty. A survivor of that attack was onboard the Gaza aid flotilla and has survived yet again to tell the story. Joe Meadors is a pro-Palestinian activist and a survivor of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. That attack by the Israeli Air Force… Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon on Israeli collective madness
“Gilad Atzmon, a British writer and musician who was born in Israel and served in the Israeli army, believes that the raid will lead the world to see what Israel is all about”. “They are convinced that the more people they kill, the more people will be deterred to jeopardise what they regard as their… Continue reading
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The activists were asking for it By Mark Steel
IT’S TIME the Israeli government’s PR team made the most of its talents, and became available for hire. Then, whenever a nutcase marches into a shopping mall and guns down a selection of passersby, they could be on hand to tell the world’s press: ‘The gunman regrets the loss of life, but did all he… Continue reading
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BDS-Related Responses to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre of 31 May 2010
Only a few days since Israel’s illegal and fatal act of aggression against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, BDS-related reactions around the world were quick and qualitatively consequential. Building on 5 years of international BDS activism since the Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS was launched on 9 July 2005, a year and a half since… Continue reading
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Moshe Machover: Colonizers’ Hutzpah
This astounding piece of hutzpah is actually quite instructive, inasmuch as it typifies and constitutes a reductio ad absurdum of the age-old method of hasbarah, the propaganda machine of the Zionist project and its Israeli settler state. Continue reading
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The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla by Israeli Navy Commandos on May 31, 2010: The Legal Framework of International Law By Lynda Brayer
Since no state of war existed at the time, the attack on these vessels constitutes an act of war against those governments under whose flags the vessels were sailing. Continue reading
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NEW WEBSITE: The Gaza Flotilla archive from delegitimize.com
Thanks to Ali Abuminah, this website will give you all of the facts and figures and testimonies from the Freedom Flotilla. Greta Co-founder and webmaster of Electronic Intifada has created an inspired website supporting the flotilla: http://delegitimize.com Includes fact sheets, media coverage, statements, videos, and protests. Great resource. http://delegitimize.com/ is a new media library project Continue reading
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Israeli Occupation Archive has posted 7 new items 4 June, 2010
* UK Lawyers: In law Israel has a case to answer * Interior Minister seeks to revoke Israeli Arab MK’s citizenship * Moshe Machover: Colonizers’ Hutzpah * Haneen Zoabi: Flotilla Interview on RT * World Zionist Organization: Responding to the Consequences of the Flotilla Episode * IOA editors: Israel Exposed * Craig Murray: Israeli Murders, Continue reading
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The Gaza Flotilla and Israel’s Many, Many Rights By Charles Glass
Even if no international law, and certainly no Law of the Sea, actually permits armed soldiers to board unarmed merchant ships in international waters, it is good that Gelb had the guts to say there’s one. Israel can rely as well on Dershowitz, the Harvard Law professor who years ago proposed that Israel destroy Palestinian… Continue reading
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Israel, Nazi propaganda chief Göebbels would have been proud of you By William Bowles
As the true nature of the massacre on the Mavi Marmara becomes apparent now that witnesses can speak out, so too is the scale of the pre-planned propaganda blitz conducted by the Israelis, a blitz that was launched in tandem with the armed attack. Continue reading
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An Italian Fascist Founded the Unit which Attacked the Freedom Flotilla By Miguel Martínez
Wikipedia tells us that the team was “formed in 1949 by Yohai Ben-Nun”. Wikipedia fails to tell us that Yohai Ben-Nun’s instructor, and the mind behind the team, was an Italian (non Jewish) Fascist by the name of Fiorenzo Capriotti, a former member of the Italian Decima Mas unit. Continue reading
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Israel killed more than 9, threw wounded into sea, witnesses say
Activists say some people who were initially on the flotilla are missing. They are also telling stories of horror, carnage and pure barbarism at the hands of Israeli officials. In a shocking account, Humanitarian Aid Foundation (?HH) President Bülent Y?ld?r?m, who returned on Thursday, said a photographer, whose first name was Cevdet, was shot in… Continue reading
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Gaza returnees share horror stories from Israel
Gaza returnees share horror stories from Israel – Activists who were on the flotilla bringing aid supplies to Gaza that was attacked on Monday continued to recount the horror of the attack and its aftermath on Thursday. Many of them speak of a wounded Turkish citizen being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier. Continue reading
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