A small but welcome step (considering Egypt is a client state) and a slap in the face to Israel’s insane, cruel and counter-productive siege on Gaza: Egypt opened its border with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, letting Palestinians cross until further notice amid a storm of international criticism of Israel’s blockade of the enclave, officials…
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When killing activists on one boat isn’t enough
More violence please, we’re Israeli: Israel will use more aggressive force in the future to prevent ships from breaking the sea blockade on the Gaza Strip, a top Navy commander told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. “We boarded the ship and were attacked as if it was a war,” the officer said. “That will mean…
Focusing on power politics always leaves the innocent out
This front page story in today’s Washington Post indicates the real flaws in so much corporate reporting on the Middle East. What’s the angle and who’s affected? Not the people under occupation in Palestine (or elsewhere) but the diplomatic act between two major powers: The worldwide condemnation of the deadly Israeli assault on the Gaza…
The terrorist ship set sail (so IDF friends say)
Just in case you weren’t sure the real agenda behind the Gaza flotilla, loony neo-con Zionist Melanie Philips tells all: ‘Peace convoy’? This was an Islamist terror ambush
Please ask the hard questions about Israel’s anti-democratic streak
While Israel continues to hold two senior Australian journalists, including reporter Paul McGeough, in detention – wonderful media management there, Zionist state, just jolly, imagine what they’ll say about you when they leave – Deakin University’s Scott Burchill wants us to question the very nature of the current Israeli government: The humiliation of pro-Zionist Biden…
Naomi Klein pledges to stand with the Gaza boats
Naomi Klein, on the advisory board of the Free Gaza Movement, spoke in Toronto yesterday:
Guardian calls for Israel to pay a price for its “pariah” status
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…
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…