On July 18, a bombshell report appeared in the Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot. The was buried on page 8 as a small news item, stated that 550 officers and soldiers who participated in Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip in late 2008 and early 2009 have
When they finished they took a knife and expanded the wound he already had in his stomach. They cut his ab muscles horizontally and by hand spilled his guts out.
As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of Gaza, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the [elected] Islamist group Hamas, which rules the P
Not only was this one of the largest peace demonstrations for a long time, but also the first time that all parts of the Israeli peace camp - from Gush Shalom and Hadash to Peace Now and Meretz – did unite for common action. The main slogan was “The
Unedited version of video that has been released previously, though heavily edited, by Israel in an attempt to back its version of the raid on the unarmed Gaza aid flotilla.
Actual footage of "Mavi Mamara" activist weapons uncovered before and after the IDF ship raid, television interviews with vessel passengers prior to the raid along with actual footage of Mavi passengers readying to attack Israeli commandos.
Bulent Yildirim, who was deported from Israel along with hundreds of other foreigners who tried breaching an Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, said activists grabbed weapons from IDF commandos, but then threw them into the sea.
"We have got to understand that people in third world countries think and care and smile and cry just like us. We have got to understand that they dream our dreams and we dream theirs." -R Corrie, age 10
Aside from the knifes, rocks, and slingshots found in a search of the Mavi Marmara, weapons were discovered leading Israeli defense officials to believe that there may have been weapons on board along with plans to kidnap an IDF commando.
The members of the mercenary group were not carrying identity cards or passports. Each of them had an envelope in his pocket with about $10,000 in cash in which the funding for the mercenaries may have come from elements within the Turkish government
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Friday at a rally in the Turkish province of Konya that Hamas is a resistance movement and not a terrorist group.
Israel raids humanitarian flotilla (a lot of wounded--at least one guy convulsing in death and the raid itself--you have been warned) in Arabic. al-Jazeera video At least nine switching cameras--fairly raw footage from the raided vessel.
The White House speaking on the eve of a meeting of President Obama with the Israeli Prime Minister, said the US "deeply regrets the loss of life and injuries sustained" in the incident and are "currently working to understand the circumstances surro
Irish Senator Mark Daly (Kerry), one of 35 parliamentarians joining our flotilla, agreed to carry any letter and to attempt to deliver it to Shalit or, if that request was denied, deliver it to officials in the Hamas government. As of this writing, t
"We are disappointed that the organizers of the flotilla have refused to also provide basic humanitarian assistance to our son, who has been held in Gaza four years in contradiction of international law," said the family of Gilad Schalit.
To protest the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinians, Israeli officials refused to attend the organization’s two-day international meeting on the peace process, which opens in Turkey on Wednesday.
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