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When Jews Broke a Blockade and Violently Resisted
June 1, 2010This is the Hebrew Wikipedia entry about the ship Exodus, which attempted to break the British blockade of Palestinians while filled with Holocaust survivors and others seeking a new life in freedom after suffering under the boot of Nazi tyranny: At 2:30AM on July 18, 1947, a half day before the Exodus was scheduled to [...]
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Facebook Group Calls for End of Gaza Siege, International Investigation of Flotilla Massacre
May 31, 2010I have just created a new Facebook group protesting the Gaza flotilla massacre. I hope you will consider joining and circulate word to everyone you know to ask that they do so. We must rally to demand justice and accountability for the events of last night. Here are the demands I’ve included as part of [...]
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Gaza flotilla: multiple tragedies at sea
May 31, 2010Truly disturbing news from the Mediterranean: 10 dead are reported after Israeli commandos boarded six ships assembled by the Free Gaza Movement to break the Gaza seige. (Read Noam Sheizaf for background and liveblogging.) In addition to the international condemnation for boarding a boat in international waters, guarded statements from the US, and another dramatic recalling of [...]
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Demand International Investigation of Gaza Flotilla Massacre
May 31, 2010I’m hoping to join together with other peace activists and groups like Jewish Voice for Peace to create an international campaign that will have the following demands: 1. A Goldstone-like investigation of the massacre which would investigate culpability of the commander of the Israeli navy and defense minister for this incident (and charges of attacks [...]
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You Had No Idea They’d React That Way?
May 31, 2010Really? Are we really supposed to believe that. Upon waking up this morning, I flipped through the news channels and as I passed the BBC, I heard the discussion going about an “Israeli commando attack on a peaceful ship of civilians bringing aid to Gaza” last night, about 60km off of the coast of Gaza. [...]
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Free Gaza Flotilla: Turkish Ship Attacked, Ten Killed by Israeli Navy
May 31, 2010insaniyardim on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free Live stream from Gaza flotilla UPDATE I: Haaretz reports via Turkish media that 10 have been killed. Dozens storm Israeli consulate in Istanbul in protest. UPDATE: The BBC is reporting that the first group of six ships was intercepted by the Israeli navy 90 miles off the Gaza coast [...]
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Move to Gaza, where the living is easy
May 26, 2010According to the Israeli government, life in Gaza is pretty luxurious. On the same morning that the air force bombed Gaza, wounding 22 people (who were probably all Hamas voters, which means they totally deserved whatever happened to them), the army, the Government Press Office (GPO) and the Foreign Ministry launched a three-pronged, near-simultaneous propaganda [...]
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Israeli Secrets Behind Gaza Siege
May 5, 2010Several years ago, when Ariel Sharon was prime minister, his main advisor, Dov Weisglass “jokingly” said that Israel’s siege was intended to put Gazans on a diet: ‘
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We pulled out of Gaza, and look what we got
May 5, 2010Didi Remez at Coteret (which, if you care about Israel, you should be reading regularly), cross-posted a piece from a new blog called Gaza Gateway, about Ahmed Sabah, a Palestinian who has been separated from his family in the West Bank, and is currently camped out at Erez crossing, refusing to enter Gaza. We’re [...]
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Ashley Bates Dispatches from Gaza
April 18, 2010For an in-depth eyewitness view of life in Gaza, you’ll do no better than, Dispatches from Gaza, a new blog just launched by a young journalist named Ashely Bates. Ashley has been in Israel/Palestine on on a three month internship for Ha’aretz and in late March she entered Gaza to write free-lance. She’s pitching [...]
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Rep. Brian Baird Speaks Sanity
March 5, 2010Can I just say that Washington Rep. Brian Baird is my personal hero? Watch this recent interview with RTAmerica which took place on the heels of his third trip to Gaza. Among other things, Baird calls for the US to break the blockade with Gaza, for US envoy George Mitchell to visit Gaza personally, and to [...]
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Rep. Brian Baird: Break Gaza Siege
February 15, 2010Rep. Brian Baird (D, WA) is now in Gaza speaking truth to power. He in effect told our president: “Mr. Obama, tear down this siege!” What a profile in courage: A U.S. congressman says the United States should break Israel’s blockade of Gaza and deliver badly needed supplies by sea. Rep. Brian Baird, a Democrat [...]
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Burston on Gaza War as Root of All Israeli Evil
February 14, 2010Brad Burston, Haaretz’s columnist can be a helluva fine writer. I’ve written at least one laudatory post about him. After doing so, I read pieces by Burston which seemed almost to be written by a different person. They were churlish pieces attacking Israel’s Jewish critics. I chalked it up to a journalist feeling that it [...]
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Wiesel: Goldstone Report Crime Against the Jewish People
February 6, 2010What was the last event in world history you can recall being a “crime against the Jewish people?” If you answered, “the Holocaust” you win all the money Elie Wiesel lost with Wall Street’s Jewish Ponzi-schemer, Bernie Madoff. Here’s how Haaretz reports Wiesel’s latest eruption against the UN Gaza report: Wiesel blasted Judge Richard Goldstone, [...]
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Gaza: three perspectives on the medias coverage
May 21, 2009Credit: AP In its May-June issue, the Columbia Journalism Review has published three perspectives on the media’s coverage of Operation Cast Lead, also known as the Gaza War. One of them is by your favourite Israeli blogger (that’d be me). Taghreed El-Khodary is the Gaza correspondent for the New York Times. Her reporter’s notebook piece [...]