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GazaFriends: – Israeli Gunboats Came out of the Darkness and Rammed us Three Times
The Dignity, on a mission of mercy to besieged Gaza, was attacked by the Israeli Navy at approximately 6am (UST) in international waters, roughly 90 miles off the coast of Gaza. Several Israeli warships surrounded the small, human rights boat, firing live ammunition around it, then intentionally ramming it three times. According to ship’s captain… Continue reading
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Damaged Gaza aid boat docks in southern Lebanon
A boat carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza has arrived in Lebanon after being turned back by the Israeli navy. The Dignity set off from Cyprus on Monday carrying three tons of emergency and medical aid to the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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Gaza: The Killing Zone – Israel/Palestine
May 2003 Background: Life in Gaza is a constant gauntlet of Israeli sniper fire, military rockets and army bulldozers. No one is safe. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1916650 more about “Gaza: The Killing Zone – Israel/Pales…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Ran HaCohen: Pacifying Gaza
30 December, 2008 Defense Minister Ehud Barak (the Hebrew surname means “lightning,” German “Blitz”) did it again: a historic record of over 200 Palestinians killed in a single Sabbath’s blitz (Dec. 27). Polls now predict five additional Knesset seats for his Labor Party in the coming February general election. That’s 40 Palestinian corpses per seat.… Continue reading
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Join the protests across the UK and take action to stop the massacre in Gaza!
PSC thanks the thousands of people who came out to demonstrate outside the Israeli embassy in London and across the UK, to call for an end to the killing and an end to the siege of the people of Gaza. Continue reading
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Mustafa Barghouti – Palestine’s Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood
Israel cannot and would not act against the will of its economic allies in Europe or its military allies in the US. Israel may be pulling the trigger ending hundreds, perhaps even thousands of lives this week, but it is the apathy of the world and the inhumane tolerance of Palestinian suffering which allows this… Continue reading
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Take Action – (USA) Palestinians in Gaza are bleeding
Write letters to members of Congress and the State Department, demonstrate at the White House and Israeli Embassies and consulates, write letters to the editor and op-eds for every news outlet, call radio talk shows, protest the U.S. representatives at the UN and their protection of Israeli crimes. Continue reading
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Dan Freeman-Maloy: Israeli Slaughter, International Culpability
There is every reason to be outraged. But despite the severity of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, we have little right to act surprised. Whatever else can be said, Israel has made it abundantly clear that until its actions are met with credible international sanctions, it will subject Palestinians (and very likely others in the region)… Continue reading
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Ha’aretz: Pro-Palestinian activists say Navy fired on protest boat off Gaza shore
An Israel Navy ship clashed on Tuesday with a small boat carrying international activists with aid destined for Gaza, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Israeli Navy attacks and wounds Dignity in International Waters
On Tuesday, December 30, at 5 a.m., several Israeli gunboats intercepted the Dignity as she was heading on a mission of mercy to Gaza. One gunboat rammed into the boat on the port bow side, heavily damaging her. The reports from the passengers and journalists on board is that she is taking on water and… Continue reading
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News Update from Gaza: Day 3
Victims toll of Israeli military operation reached 350 while wounded up to 1500 people. Continue reading
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URGENT! Israeli Navy Attacking Civilian Mercy Ship! TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY!
The Dignity, a Free Gaza boat on a mission of mercy to besieged Gaza, is being attacked by the Israeli Navy in international waters. The Dignity has been surrounded by at least half-a-dozen Israeli warships. They are firing live ammunition around the Dignity, and one of the warships has rammed the civilian craft causing an… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: The DIGNITY has left for Gaza
The Dignity has left Cyprus & should arrive in Gaza tomorrow around 10am (local). Watch here for updates and check the website, www.freegaza.org as well. Israel has declared Gaza a ‘closed military zone’, making sure no one can witness the atrocities. Our boat is going to challenge that closure. Continue reading
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Aeyal Gross’s Gaza notes – On Gaza’s (non-existent) health system
The health system in Gaza is in a state of collapse – A medical supplies store was bombarded today – Referrals to medical care outside the Gaza strip are suspended Continue reading
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No place to run, no place to hide By William Bowles
It is directly because of ‘journalism’ like Bowen’s that we have no understanding of our Palestinian brothers and sisters’ situation, where, according to Bowen resistance to Israeli slaughter comes not from a proud people defending what’s left of their homeland but from religious fanatics. Continue reading
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Norman Solomon: A Hundred Eyes for an Eye
Even if you set aside the magnitude of Israel’s violations of the Geneva conventions and the long terrible history of its methodical collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, consider the vastly disproportionate carnage in the conflict. Continue reading
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Mohamed Khodr – The Hanukkah Massacre in Gaza: The Sacrificial Lamb to Israeli-American-Arab Interests
As of this writing 284 Palestinians have been murdered, over 700 injured (many in critical condition); most are innocent civilians living in the most densely populated area in the world—Gaza. This is the highest one day total of dead and injured by Israel’s terrorism since its founding in 1948. Continue reading
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Haaretz: Israel destroys Islamic University in Gaza
Calling the Islamic University a “key center of Hamas power” to justify its destruction is like calling the Hebrew University a key center of Israeli power and, by that, justifying blowing it up! Continue reading
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Dignity Leaves on Emergency Mission
More than two-hundred, maybe three-hundred people have died in Gaza under the shelling of Israeli military jets. Hundreds are injured. This Sunday, the killing activities have continued. The wall between Gaza and Egypt has now been torn down by Gazans, according to international Human Rights observers witnessing and documenting the Israeli attacks on Gaza. Millions… Continue reading
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Dignity Leaves for Gaza: Challenges World to “Stop this Madness!”
There is a time when silence is complicity and inaction is unacceptable. On Saturday, December 27, Israel began Operation “Cast Lead,” a military onslaught against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip that has – so far – massacred more than three-hundred men, women, and children, and seriously injured over a thousand. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 