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Witness: No one armed on Gaza flotilla
Berlin – Three visibly shaken Germans, who experienced a deadly raid by the Israeli military on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, denied on Tuesday that anyone on board was armed. “The Israeli government justifies the raid because they were attacked. This is absolutely not the case,” former member of…
Former US ambassador captured aboard Gaza aid ship to be sent home
A former U.S. ambassador aboard a Gaza aid ship seized by Israel commandos is on his way home, his wife said Monday evening. Edward Peck, 81, of Chevy Chase, Md., was among activists in the flotilla trying to get humanitarian aid to Gaza, said his wife, Ann Peck. She said…
In raw video, reporters claim Israelis fired on activists before boarding ship
Update: Turkey will reportedly send military escort with future Gaza aid boats In what could be a serious blow to Israel’s narrative on the killing of at least nine humanitarian activists making their way to Gaza through international waters, raw video by an Al Jazeera producer, who was filming during…
Israel releases footage of aid boat storming
JERUSALEM (AFP) – The Israeli army released footage on Monday of the resistance put up by pro-Palestinian activists as commandos stormed an aid ship headed to Gaza in an operation that has sparked a diplomatic furor. Video images showed troops rappelling down to the deck of one of the vessels…
Protests erupt across world after Israeli raid
(AFP) – Tens of thousands of people joined angry protests across the world Monday after a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, demanding retaliation and showing support for the Palestinians. In Turkey crowds took to the streets in several cities to vent fury after the storming of a…
Haaretz analysis: The government failed the test of results
“The government failed the test of results,” the editor at large for Israel’s oldest leading newspaper writes in a blistering analysis calling for a full scale investigation of the deadly raid of a Gaza flotilla: an “act of protest [which resulted in] dead demonstrators and a grave international crisis.” “Prime…
Israeli allies freeze military ties over deadly Gaza ship raid
ANKARA  Israel’s allies froze military ties and summoned its ambassadors Monday over the storming of an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, as Muslim leaders slammed the deadly raid as “criminal” and “inhuman”. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was “shocked” by the Israeli navy’s assault on a convoy…
UN chief calls for investigation of Gaza aid flotilla raid
KAMPALA  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he was “shocked” by a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla and demanded a full investigation. “I am shocked by reports of killings and injuries of people on boats carrying supplies for Gaza,” the UN chief said at a…
Hamas says Egypt gassed four Gaza tunnel workers
GAZA CITY (AFP) – The Islamist Hamas movement on Thursday accused Egyptian security forces of killing four Palestinians by pumping poisonous gas into a cross-border smuggling tunnel. “Hamas holds the Egyptian side responsible for the killing of four innocent workers after Egyptian security forces pumped poisonous gas into one of…
A both-and blog
“The Palestine issue” is in most Americans’ hands the epitome of either-or thinking. As Thersites notes, in the case of our politicians, it’s not even “either-or” thinking – it’s “is” thinking. On Israel, there’s no particular difference in substance between the statements of Nancy Pelosi and, say, Pamela Oshry. As…
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