Bestselling Swedish author Henning Mankell, who sailed on the ships trying to break Israel’s Gaza blockade, shares his diary of the journey.
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The far-right shows its proud side
Israeli dissident Neve Gordon on Israel’s fascist turn. Remind me how we share “values” with Israel again? In Israel, almost all of the protests against the navy’s assault on the relief flotilla took place in Palestinian space. Palestinian citizens in almost every major town and city, from Nazareth to Sachnin and from Arabe to Shfaram,…
Some Swedes care about Palestine and show it
More progress: Swedish dockworkers will launch a weeklong blockade of Israeli ships and goods arriving in the Nordic nation to protest Monday’s attack on a Gaza-destined aid flotilla. Nine activists died after Israeli troops intercepted the convoy. Swedish Port Workers Union spokesman Peter Annerback says workers will refuse to handle Israeli goods and ships during…
Talk to Hamas now, says Turkey
While the New York Times calls for better relations between Israel and Turkey – and even urges Israel to end its siege on Gaza – Ankara has its own ideas about moving forward (via The Cable): As the crisis over a deadly Israeli commando raid on a vessel carrying Turkish activists continued to command the…
Sorry, Israel, you’re too kind to those activists, please come again
Are we seriously saying that a group of activists on a ship threatened the lives of Israel, its people and pets? Jon Stewart has a few words: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Clusterf#&k to the War House – Korean Peninsula & Middle East www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes…
When tribalism meets a land grab, stand back
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald: Thus, nuclear-armed Israel is bullied and victimized by starving Gazans with stones. … The… Israel Navy is threatened by a flotilla filled with wheelchairs and medicine. … And the greatest superpower the Earth has ever known faces a grave and existential threat from a handful of religious fanatics hiding in caves. … An American condemnation…
Australians are increasingly vocal about Israel
Today’s letters in the Sydney Morning Herald show a combination of anger, defensiveness (on the part of Zionists who dishonestly claim that they actually think independently from the Israeli government) and passion: Immanuel Suttner and David Tester (Letters, June 4) ask if and when Bishop George Browning and others would express outrage about attacks by…
Public opinion is lost
While Israeli bloggers debate the rights and wrongs of this week’s Gaza flotilla massacre (there’s something right about it, I hear you ask?) this piece of news is pretty damning: Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla after autopsy results on the bodies of…
Where’s the Tea Party anger over Israeli killings?
A little message from Juan Cole: Hey, Tea Party. A foreign navy boarded an unarmed ship flying the flag of a NATO member in international waters and shot dead an American citizen with four bullets to the head and one in the chest on Memorial Day. It did this while the head of the belligerent…