Posts Tagged ‘Palestine’
Russians Support Israel on the Gaza Flotilla Massacre
Russia BTH | 23 June 2010 Views from Russia on the Gaza Strip It wasn’t Israel’s attack on the naval convoy destined for the Gaza strip that shocked and surprised Russian pundits, who were mostly sympathetic to Israel in its reaction to not let the flotilla pass at all costs, even to the point of violence. On the contrary, they were [...]
Israel: New flotilla will be stopped
People's Daily | 21 June 2010 Israel says any ships headed to the Gaza Strip will be intercepted as part of the blockade on the Mediterranean territory. After Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting, Israel's Science Minister said no vessels will be allowed to reach the shores of the Strip. His comments come after reports that the Lebanese [...]
Israel’s Greatest Loss: Its Moral Imagination
Ha'aretz | By Henry Siegman | 11 June 2010 If a people who so recently experienced such unspeakable inhumanities cannot understand the injustice and suffering its territorial ambitions are inflicting, what hope is there for the rest of us? Following Israel’s bloody interdiction of the Gaza Flotilla, I called a life-long friend in Israel [...]
Mavi Marmara and the U.S.S. Liberty
Brookings | By Charles K. Ebinger | 15 June 2010 The Attack on the USS Liberty: Lessons for U.S. National Security General Petraeus warned that the stalled Middle East peace process is a direct threat to U.S. interests and prestige in the region and that the lack of progress in Palestine foments anti-Americanism, undermines Arab [...]
Saree Makdisi on “the racism of our age”
Los Angeles Times | By Saree Makdisi | 13 June 2010 Don't single out Helen Thomas The veteran journalist was pilloried for her remark about Israel, but where's the uproar over such comments directed at Palestinians? Unconscionable. Offensive. Hurtful. Bigoted. Terrible. Hateful. These are the words being used to describe Helen Thomas' [...]
Chomsky on the Freedom Flotilla
In These Times | By Noam Chomsky | 8 June 2010 The Real Threat Aboard the Freedom Flotilla Israel’s violent attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza shocked the world. Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime. But the crime is nothing new. For decades, Israel [...]
Hoodbhoy on the Flotilla Massacre
ViewpointOnline | By Pervez Hoodbhoy | 11 June 2010 This article, recovered from Google cache, is not accessible in Pakistan. A revised (sanitised) version appears as The Flotilla Massacre: Why?, and a condensed version has been published as The flotilla killings, in Dawn. Reflections on the Flotilla massacre Israel is responsible for [...]
Raw 1-Hour Footage: Attack on the Mavi Marmara
Cultures of Resistance | 8 June 2010 Under Attack: Mavi Marmara Attacked - Flotilla footage mirrors Via Iara Lee, a filmmaker from Cultures of Resistance CulturesOfResistance.org - Hosted by Twin Cities Indymedia. Note: Footage includes graphic violence, gunfire and lethal injuries. Can you host more files or recompress into open formats? [...]
Putin on Western Democracy, the Gaza Flotilla, and Iran
Pravda.ru | 11 June 2010 Putin: Western Model of Democracy Doesn't Exist Vladimir Putin gave a traditional interview to French journalists prior to his visit to Paris. In the interview, the chairman of the Russian government said that the Western model of democracy does not exist per se. Below you can read several most intersecting [...]
Helen Thomas: Zionists Control America; Obama gave up totally, early on
Helen Thomas on her one question for Obama DC's most experienced journalist says Obama lost credibility when he dodged question on Israeli nukes “American politics, pro-Israel. If you take a vote in Congress, maybe you might get five people vote against any further aid to Israel as it continues its occupation. That's about it. They [...]
