Tag: Free Gaza Flotilla

"What is the British Government planning to do, please, to safeguard British subjects (and indeed the other humanitarians) sailing with the flotilla on its peaceful mission to Gaza?"

Timing is everything when waging war “by way of deception,” the motto that has long guided Israeli war-planners. Whenever Israel’s geopolitical goals are threatened,...

- Israeli Piracy Continues, Terror State Issues No Apologies - As news broke that the Israeli navy engaged in yet another act of piracy of nine Jewish activists off...

- UN  Human Rights Council Report on Flotilla of Ships Carrying Humanitarian Assistance - By Greta Berlin Israeli troops broke international law by storming an aid flotilla...

- Whose side are we on? - By Ken O'Keefe I will be returning to America in the next 36 hours as a publicly accused “terrorist...

We Americans are all Palestinians. From the two small boats that landed on August 23, 2008, we grew to six ships in the last flotilla, and will have nine to twelve in the flotilla this fall as we go back to Gaza. To borrow from Dr. King who gave a beautiful anthem for justice in Washington D.C., the Free Gaza movement knows that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. Let us see the day when we can say: "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Open Letter to the Panorama BBC Team from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate (www.peacepeople.com)  Dear BBC Panorama Team  I write to you regarding your programme of 16th...

In a generational sense, Operation Cast Lead [Gaza massacre] and the flotilla attack can be understood as the anti-1967 war. It was the 1967 war that helped solidify Israel's image in the eyes of the world, and in particular of American Jewry, as the scrappy underdog beating the odds. That image has now changed forever, and the ongoing siege of Gaza has caused many to consider what Zionism has built in the Middle East. The Goldstone report stands as the defining indictment of this era.

The Reut Institute, it seems, has recognized that Israel's "branding" campaign is not going to go anywhere unless there are fundamental policy changes.

The men who were killed ranged between 33-61 with one American Turkish young man of 19 who wanted to be a doctor who was shot five times in the head and back. There are autopsy reports available ... and there are descriptions of who they were, why they were going and how many times they were shot on our website at www.freegaza.org

But it seemed to matter to the Israelis, because until this week they insisted their own inquiry was sufficient, and that was already under way. One fact emerging from this process was that the victims, according to “Sgt S” who shot six of them, “were without a doubt terrorists”. And he produced evidence to back this up, which was: “I could see the murderous rage in their eyes”.

- Will there be another Massacre in the Mediterranean; does Israel dare? - By Greta Berlin at witnessgaza.com They said it couldn't be done, that Americans...

Could you also determine if the State Department has made a demarche to the Israeli government concerning the circumstances surrounding the commandos deadly shooting of unarmed 19 year old American citizen Furkan Dogan, who was shot 5 times, several times to the head?

By the Free Gaza movement, and most of the world Stockholm, Sweden -- It has been over two months since Israel’s 31 May 2010 deadly...

By Greg  Dropkin in CounterPunch Three weeks after the massacre on the Freedom Flotilla, ILWU dockworkers in the San Francisco Bay area delayed an Israeli...

From Gaza Friends, see the faces of the Massacre on the Mediterranean at Free Gaza. - The terrorists on board that ship as well as the...

- U.S. Marine Ken O’Keefe said that two activists were already dead when he helped to disarm the first commandos that boarded the Mavi...

In the face of Israel's defiance of the world community, international law, refusal to negotiate, and deplorable human rights record including recently killing an unarmed American...

There can be no doubt that whatever the misgivings of some of the U.S. military brass about Israeli militarism, President Obama though his actions...

From the Free Gaza movement and allies: Thousands of words have already been written about the Freedom Flotilla, Israel is out with its talking heads...

The most recent attempt to highlight Israel’s criminal blockade and illegal occupation of Gaza was met with more Israeli piracy. See Al Jazeera and Witness...

Put simply, Israel says to the world: We do what we want when we want, we're entitled. Illegal blockade: we're entitled. Kill unarmed Americans and human...

From Democracy in Action: Gaza Freedom Flotilla is an act of activists and social movements, a civil society  action made necessary when governments refused their...

By Selcan Hacaoglu and David Rising ISTANBUL – Mourners in Istanbul hoisted coffins Thursday to cheers of "God is great!" as they honored activists slain...

An American college student gets her eye shot out by the Israeli Army in the West Bank. Israel kills nine, including one American in the...

By SABRINA TAVERNISE and MICHAEL SLACKMAN in the NYT ISTANBUL — One of the nine people killed in an Israeli commando raid on a flotilla...

The assault on the Freedom Flotilla was not a mistake or a "completely mishandled" situation (NYT). Nor was it "folly" or "bad mistakes." (Ameircan...

Update: Israel deports human rights activists, Batch of Freedom Flotilla passengers reach Jordan as Israel drops plan to prosecute activists. This comes via Steve Clemons...

Update: Coverage of Israeli state terrorism: - Gaza Inquiry Pushed - Gaza Flotilla Attack: Guns and Blood - Gaza aid flotilla: Israeli sabotage suspected - Irish aid boat,...

Update: Israel deports human rights activists, Batch of Freedom Flotilla passengers reach Jordan as Israel drops plan to prosecute activists. --- A political meme—a set of...

Israel may believe she can do whatever she wants, wherever she wants. But this latest outrage will come at a political cost. Phyllis Bennis and...

News is activists are sending a new ship to challenge the Gaza blockade by Israel as the U.N. Security Council calls for a probe amid global...

- Gaza Freedom flotilla carried world-renowned names and veteran activists - Inclusion of human beings on relief missions is  not necessarily a deterrent to state murder....

As we remember the fallen today, one thing is clear: Our troops and Marines did not die for the vicious, hateful state of Israel. President...

- Massacre at Sea -  ABC News Report: White House 'Working to Understand' Israeli Attack; scheduled meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled. For...

By IAN DEITCH HAIFA, Israel - Israeli gunships headed out to sea on Friday to stop a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists from reaching the Gaza...

By Ann Wright   By the time you read this, we will be on the high seas of the Mediterranean (we hope the seas will not...