The Guardian issues the kind of editorial that Israel had better get used to. Actions will follow such words, globally: If an armed group of Somali pirates had yesterday boarded six vessels on the high seas, killing at least 10 passengers and injuring many more, a Nato taskforce would today be heading for the Somali…
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At least some Australian Jews condemn the outrage
The following statement was just released by the Australian Jewish Democratic Society: The terrible and deplorable deaths and injuries that occurred on board the Turkish flagged ship, the Mavi Marmara, one of a convoy of ships attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, are not only heartbreaking for the immediate families of the…
How resistance is framed as terrorism
Here’s the Israeli “proof” that supposedly required armed commandoes to open fire on protesters on the high seas. This certainly shows resistance to the arrival of Israelis – and frankly, the activists had the right to do so in self-defense in international waters – but how this justifies the murder of countless protesters is beyond…
Israel’s choice is clear
My following article appears in today in New Matilda: The deadly attack by Israeli forces on the Gaza relief ships has provoked global outrage, writes Antony Loewenstein. Has Israel bitten off more than it can chew this time? Within hours of Israel’s storming of the Gaza flotilla yesterday in international waters, Haaretz columnist Bradley Burston…
Seriously, nobody believes Israel had the right to storm a boat at night
It takes a moral giant such as Gideon Levy in Haaretz to articulate what Israel has become: Like in “Mini-Israel,” the park where there is everything, but smaller, Israel embarked yesterday on a mini Operation Cast Lead. Like its larger, losing predecessor, this operation had it all: the usual false claim that is was they…
We’re sailing into unchartered waters here, people
A fascinating piece (via Mondoweiss) from the realist website Stratfor: [Exodus author Leon] Uris…used an amalgam of incidents to display the propaganda war waged by the Jews. Those carrying out this war had two goals. The first was to create sympathy in Britain and throughout the world for Jews who, just a couple of years…
The world changed yesterday (maybe) and Israel has no idea why
Robert Fisk on a nation under siege and it doesn’t even understand why: How did we get to this point? Maybe because we all grew used to seeing the Israelis kill Arabs, maybe the Israelis grew used to killing Arabs. Now they kill Turks. Or Europeans. Something has changed in the Middle East these past…
What must happen before Israel is fully accepted
Richard Silverstein has launched a Facebook campaign and outlines some important points: 1. an independent UN investigation under supervision of Security Council with the power to investigate possible war crimes and report results to the Council for referral to International Criminal Court. 2. the U.S. government condemn unequivocally the attack on a Turkish ship in…