And it gets worse: Israel Navy troops opened fire on pro-Palestinian activists aboard a six-ship aid flotilla sailing for the Gaza Strip, killing at least 10 and wounding several others after the convoy ignored orders to turn back, Turkey’s NTV reported early Monday. NTV… said between 10 and 15 people were killed, with over 6o wounded.
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Cause and effect in the Middle East
While Israel stands accused of actions like these: An international children’s rights charity has said it has evidence that Palestinian children held in Israeli custody have been subjected to sexual abuse in an effort to extract… confessions from them. The Geneva-based Defence for Children International (DCI)… has collected 100 sworn affadavits from Palestinian children who said they…
Israel opens fire on Gaza flotilla
If true, this is going to get much uglier: Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country’s siege on Gaza, according to a Turkish aid agency being quoted by Turkish media. At least two people were killed and more than 30 people injured, the report said early on Monday.…
Gaza Flotilla sails into a positive outcome
As the Israeli army approaches the Gaza Flotilla – great images, team, unarmed civilians versus Zionist soldiers in camo – it’s once again pitiful to see the ways in which Israel supporters are all about PR and spin (there’s no crisis in Gaza etc) rather than realising that this is a battle they will never…
Perhaps Israel would like to silence Gazans permanently
The Gaza flotilla continues its merry way toward the Strip before the inevitable provocation by Israel (so much for Gaza being an independent territory when Israel says it has the right to stop the ships landing on the shore). The cost of the Israeli operation will be millions of shekels. Such money well spent. Gideon…
How Palestine remains central to the Muslim world
Al-Jazeera English reports on the (mainly) Turkish contingent of the Gaza Flotilla on its way to the Strip: In a separate but related item, Turkey’s rise as a major power is being noted across the Arab world.
A writer loathed by the Zionist establishment
My following article appears in this week’s Green Left Weekly: American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein Directed by David Ridgen & Nicolas Rossier Baraka Productions Review by Antony Loewenstein Jewish critics of Israel are as old as the ideology itself. Zionism was regarded by most Jews in Europe as an idealistic delusion before the…
Why the Gaza Flotilla has to reach its destination
Oh Israel, you make it so hard to like you. The Gaza Flotilla is on its way towards the Strip but Zionist propaganda is in full swing. Here’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman: The aid convoy is violent propaganda against Israel, and Israel will not allow its sovereignty to be threatened in any way, in any…
Israel worries about its image and not the people of Gaza (that’s a shock)
Zionist spin never rests: Israel will attempt to block the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ of pro-Palestinian demonstrators heading toward Gaza with humanitarian supplies, the forum of seven senior ministers decided on Wednesday. Humanitarian cargo, however, would be unloaded and inspected at Ashdod and sent to Gaza via the United Nations. The flotilla’s organizers seek to disrupt Israel’s…
Gaza is a paradise filled with luxury (if you’re deaf, dumb and blind)
An article of stunning ignorance and stupidity. Ideology run wild. Here’s Tom Gross in Canada’s National Post (a writer who regularly appears in the Murdoch press down under) with a piece headlined, “Fancy restaurants and Olympic-size pools: What the media won’t report about Gaza“: In recent days, the international media, particularly in Europe and the…