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Pro-Palestinian Flotilla Activist: Why I am not sailing aboard the Dutch ship after all
July 2, 2011Hasna El Maroudi, 26, Dutch pro-Palestinian activist/journalist of Moroccan descent, had planned to join other activists aboard a Dutch ship to Gaza. She changed her mind after having to deal with the sponsoring organization’s lack of transparency, and the direct involvement of Hamas. She wrote about the process in joop.nl and I was recently sent [...]
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Turkey Flotilla Inquiry: Activists Killed Execution Style
February 12, 2011Turkey’s investigation of the Mavi Marmara massacre contains troubling findings that two victims were killed before any IDF soldiers boarded the ship, in fire from helicopters, that the youngest victim, a Turkish-American, was killed execution style after being wounded in the leg, and that a photographer was killed with a laser-guided weapon while taking photographs: [...]
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Turkel Commission Vindicates Israeli Massacre
January 24, 2011Perhaps only in Israel can even a dead man rise from the grave to sing his country’s praises (well OK, it could happen in a few other places too like North Korea, Belarus and perhaps Iran). That’s what’s happened to poor Shabtai Rosenne, former Israeli foreign ministry official, appointed along with several other elderly cheerleaders [...]
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IDF Investigates Commander in al-Samouni Gaza Massacre
October 25, 2010Several months ago, the IDF announced publicly that it had begun investigations into two senior commanders for decisions they made during Operation Cast Lead which had been specifically singled out by the Goldstone Report as potential war crimes. The Haaretz article reporting this, specifically mentioned one inquiry involved the use of white phosphorus against military [...]
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Tragedy in Gaza
July 22, 2010They opened a new shopping mall in Gaza last week. I am completely serious. The Palestinians are laughing their behinds off at the West and especially at Israel. In the meantime, Israel is entering a new diplomatic fight to attempt to stop another flotilla, this time from Lebanon, from attempting to enter Gazan waters. Gosh [...]
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Flotilla | what to make of the IDF “hit list” story?
June 19, 2010Other flotilla related news from Israel: army declares all recordable media was confiscated from journalists on ships “for security reasons”; Defense Minister Barak losing key supporter in his party On the hours following the Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla, there were rumors of an Israeli “hit list” that has fallen from the pocket of [...]
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Amos Horev: Castrated Palestinian in Blood Vengeance
June 18, 2010Amos Horev, the retired IDF general, former Technion president, and chief booster of the Israeli defense industry, has a rather sordid past that many might find akin to being a terrorist, Israel-style. He is one of three panel members of the Gaza flotilla investigation and this incident, described by the inimitable Tom Segev in a [...]
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Israeli Chair of Gaza Flotilla Attack Investigation Doesnt Believe It Should Exist
June 14, 2010This is getting damned strange. The Obama administration and Israel have been haggling for a week over the nature and composition of the supposedly independent commission which will investigate the Gaza flotilla disaster. We hear that the U.S. demanded that someone of judicial “stature” like a Supreme Court justice be appointed as chair. [...] Related [...]
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Flotilla | The case against an Israeli-led investigation (part II)
June 8, 2010By agreeing to an Israeli legal panel that would look into the attack on the flotilla, the US administration might end up saving Netanyahu’s government In a previous post I tried to explain why I think an Israeli-led investigation will not result with a credible account of the events concerning the attack on the Gaza-bound [...]
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Turkish Prosecutors Open Investigation into Israeli Attack on Mavi Marmara
June 6, 2010A Turkish prosecutor has open a case against the Israeli officials who approved the attack on the Gaza flotilla and the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, which left 9 Turkish nationals dead: Israel’
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5 things about the Gaza flotilla
June 4, 2010Among my reasons for not posting again about the Gaza flotilla situation: I’m not sure I have anything new or fresh to add to the conversation; my computer time is quite limited these days and I’m not sure I want to spend it writing about this; often when I post about Israel, I get comments [...]
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Al Jazeera Cameramans Eyewitness Acccount of IDF Attack
June 4, 2010Now that Israel has been forced by Turkey to release the Gaza flotilla detainees, some of the r accounts of the events that transpired on the Mavi Marmara are circulating in the press. Reuters carries this story of an Al Jazeera cameraman who was on the boat: Al Jazeera television cameraman Andre Abu Khalil, who [...]
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19 Year-Old Turkish-American Killed by IDF in Gaza Flotilla Attack
June 3, 2010So now we know why Israel refused to announce the dead and injured. The NY Times reports that one of the dead is a dual U.S.-Turkish citizen, Furkan Dogan: One of the nine people killed in an Israeli commando raid on a flotilla of ships heading for Gaza this week was a United States citizen [...]
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Mary Hughes Thompson, Free Gaza Co-Founder, Recounts Flotilla Nightmare at Sea
June 3, 2010The following is a statement Mary Hughes Thompson, co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement, wrote in Cyprus, where she has been helping coördinate the Free Gaza flotilla. I report it with pride: Because the Cypriot authorities prevented me and a dozen others from boarding our boat CHALLENGER, I joined my two colleagues in the Free [...]
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British Prime Minister Calls for End to Gaza Siege, Obama Doesnt
June 3, 2010Today, Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron forthrightly told the House of Commons that the time had come to end the Gaza siege: …Cameron told the Commons: “Friends of Israel – and I count myself a friend of Israel – should be saying to the Israelis that the blockade actually strengthens Hamas’s grip on [...] [...]