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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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Watch as I take this symbol of resistanceand *poof*it becomes a new symbol of oppression!
June 3, 2010Shemspeed should stay in the music business–where, as a music reviewing blogger, I quite like it–and leave the political fashion statements to someone else. They previously released their Israeli keffiyeh earlier this year. Today they proudly announced that they’re also selling a version of their Israeli keffiyeh with familiar yellow and army green colors–the IDF [...]
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On Israel and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
June 1, 2010I don’t have much to add to the conversation about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Too often, I find, online conversations about Israel and Gaza / the West Bank generate a great deal of heat and not very much light. Of the posts I’ve read, the ones I most recommend are these: From Global Voices Online [...]
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U.S. Officials Dismayed at Gaza Flotilla Attack
June 1, 2010Right now, they’ll only admit it hiding behind anonymity: While the administration’
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Senior IDF Officers Opposed Gaza Flotilla Attack, Security Council Debates Resolution Calling for End to Gaza Siege
June 1, 2010Thanks to Oren Persico of the extraordinary Israeli media watchdog NGO, 7th Eye, who reported that Yediot Achronot columnist Sever Plotzker revealed that senior IDF officers vocally opposed the Israeli Navy’s attack on the Gaza flotilla. Yet no one in the Israeli media could report this: Yediot Achronot and other [Israeli] media outlets were prevented [...]
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GAZA FLOTILLA DISASTER
May 31, 2010Here we go again and on Memorial Day. 9 dead and many wounded. Why? Because the Hamas supporting Islamists on the humanitarian flotilla planned to reprieve their success with Gilad Shalit, Kidnap another Israeli soldier. The Israeli commandos did what they had to do to prevent it. You can watch it here. The commandos were [...]
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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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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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Israeli Intelligence: Welcome to Chelm
May 24, 2010From the realm of Chelm: I’m displaying a copy of a gag order sent to an Israeli media outlet. The document appears precisely as it was received. For those who don’t read Hebrew, it was sent by the Israeli police and originates in the Nazareth district court: …Our division is conducting an investigation in collaboration [...]
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Kamm Trial to Begin
May 24, 2010Israeli reporters bring word that the Anat Kamm trial is to begin tomorrow.
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Dont Like an Israel Palestinian MK? Burn Him
May 23, 2010One of my Israeli readers brings word of a truly ghoulish Israeli right-wing Facebook group, I Too Want to Burn MK Talib A-Sana. It seems that A-Sana, the Israeli Palestinian elected representative of the Raam-Tal Arab nationalist party has asked the officers of the Knesset for permission to travel to Gaza to witness conditions [...] [...]
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Goldblog vs. Peter Beinart, Part II
May 23, 2010Part Two of my conversation with Peter Beinart. Part I is here. More, I hope, after Shavuot: Jeffrey Goldberg: It’s interesting to me that you, an Orthodox Jew, don’t answer the question about Zionism in any sort of theological way whatsoever. Anti-Semitism to me is not a good enough answer to the question of “Why [...]
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Goldblog vs Peter Beinart, Part II
May 19, 2010Part Two of my conversation with Peter Beinart. Part I is here. More, I hope, after Shavuot: Jeffrey Goldberg: It’s interesting to me that you, an Orthodox Jew, don’t answer the question about Zionism in any sort of theological way whatsoever. Anti-Semitism to me is not a good enough answer to the question of “Why [...]
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Chomsky to Deliver Bir Zeit Lecture on Al Jazeera
May 18, 2010Well, maybe this will teach the petty bureaucrats at the Israeli Interior Ministry a lesson. After lecturing him for four hours on the errors of his ways in criticizing Israel and telling him what he could or should do to be allowed admittance, they sent Prof. Noam Chomsky packing back to Amman. Later, Israeli PR [...]
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Israel 2010: 42% of Jews are secular
May 18, 2010