Former Israeli navy commander questioned at a London airport

Being questioned while traveling in Europe has also been a concern for senior IDF officials Gaza, ALRAY | Oct 14, 2013 The British authorities have stopped and questioned former Israeli navy commander Eliezer Marom upon arriving London’s Heathrow Airport Monday, Ynetnews.com reported. Marom was commander of the Israeli navy when 13 Israeli commandos committed a […]

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ICC investigating Israel’s attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla | #MaviMarmara

An Israeli speedboat escorts the Mavi Marmara near the port of Ashdod on May 31, 2010. PressTV | Wed May 15, 2013 2:32AM GMT On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos attacked the first Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea, killing nine Turkish citizens, including a teenager with Turkish-US dual citizenship, on board […]

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Members of Marmara Freedom #Flotilla Join GMJ Caravan

FARS NEWS MARCH 27, 2012 | News number: 9012153415 TEHRAN (FNA)- The members of the Gaza-bound relief aid convoy, named Freedom Flotilla, which was attacked by the Israeli forces in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea in May 2010, joined the civil resistance movement for the freedom of the Holy Quds, dubbed as Global March […]

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The Mavi Marmara Massacre – in pictures

█▌ UPDATE  Sept 2, 2011 The Palmer Committee Final Report – UN – DOWNLOAD PDF The Palmer Report: Another Attempt by Israel to Whitewash Murder? | PRESS RELEASE Why the UN’s Palmer-Uribe report on Israel’s flotilla attack is worthless | Analysis by Ali Abunimah Palmer Report’s Fatal Flaws | Palestine Chronicle All previous and news […]

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REMEMBERING FURKAN DOGAN | PHOTO ESSAY

Posted by desertpeace on Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 8:00 pm. Furkan’s Dad speaking about his martyred son…. Commentary by Chippy Dee, Photos © by Bud Korotzer   Late last week there was a meeting at The Commons on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn that few attending will ever forget.  Organized by Al-Awda, the Center for Constitutional […]

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Germany bans anti-Israeli movie

PressTV – Sun Jan 30, 2011 5:48PM ‘The Valley of the Wolves – Palestine’ promotional poster Germany has banned the public screening of a movie, which depicts that atrocities Israel has committed against activists aboard an Ankara-backed Gaza-bound aid convoy. The German Movie Control Association took issue with the content of ‘The Valley of the […]

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Valley of the Anti-Semites?

14:49 01/29/2011 Israel is perhaps not used to being the bad guy in movies. By Belén Fernández The Turkish film ‘Kurtlar Vadisi: Filistin’—’Valley of the Wolves—Palestine’— opened yesterday in Turkey. Based on the immensely popular television series ‘Valley of the Wolves’, the film is a response to the May 2010 Israeli attack on the Turkish-led […]

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The Truth about Mavi Marmara

Friday, 28 January 2011 In recent months, I have been preoccupied with efforts to resolve a very thorny international dispute, the killing of nine Turkish nationals (one o them also an American citizen) on their way to bring aid to children of Gaza. Following the Israeli attack to the Gaza Humanitarian Convoy, the UN Security […]

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US calls Israeli probe of Mavi Marmara raid ‘impartial’

26 January 2011, Wednesday / TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, ANKARA The United States has described as “credible and impartial and transparent” an Israeli inquiry that cleared the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and government of any wrongdoing in a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound international flotilla. The Turkish president lambasted the report as having “no value […]

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Turkel Commission Endorses Law of the Jungle

16:24 01/24/2011 Turkel Commission Endorses Law of the Jungle The Turkel report has served iimmediate Israeli need. By Deepak Tripathi Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the […]

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Yildirim condemns Terkel report, announces new fleet to Gaza

[ 25/01/2011 – 09:21 AM ]   ISTANBUL, (PIC)– Bulent Yildirim, the head of the Turkish relief organization IHH, condemned the Israeli Terkel committee findings on the Israeli navy attack on the Freedom Flotilla last year. Yildirim told a press conference in Istanbul on Monday that Israel provided protection for its soldiers through such report. […]

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Flotilla aid fails to deliver in Gaza | As much as 60 percent of the aid was damaged or otherwise unusable. Some still hasn’t been distributed.

Israeli forces approach one of six ships bound for Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea in this May 31, 2010 file photo. Israel’s Gaza blockade and its deadly raid on a Turkish-led flotilla bound for the Palestinian enclave last May were legal, an Israeli inquiry commission said on Sunday.| Uriel Sinai/Reuters By Kristen Chick, Correspondent / January […]

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Gaza flotilla survivors respond to Turkel Commission report – International Middle East Media Center

Monday January 24, 2011 08:08 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News After Israel released a report absolving its forces from wrongdoing in an attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla last year that left nine aid workers dead, survivors of the attack roundly criticized the report Sunday, calling it a “whitewash” and a “farce”. Survivor of […]

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Israel’s Murder of Activists Was No Mistake

23:30 05/31/2010 Israel has a long record of executing premeditated atrocities. By Ahmad Amr If you think about it, Israel’s calculated murder of peace activists on a mission to break the siege of Gaza makes perfect sense. A lot of observers were baffled that Netanyahu’s government inflated the importance of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which […]

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Mavi Marmara survivors speak out against Israeli “whitewash”

| RO: Ramallah Online   Passengers on the Mavi Marmara before the attack. Viva Palestina Press Release Dear friend, Today, Israel has released a report into its actions on the Mavi Marmara last year, when the ship – carrying aid as part of a flotilla to Gaza – was attacked by Israel, leading to the […]

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