[This is just a stepping stone... watch and see how activists from around the world begin to mobilize against Israeli interests. The massacre of the Freedom Flotilla was the last straw and I believe that people are just fed up and ready to act.] SF Chronicle: Hundreds of demonstrators, condemning Israel’s blockade of the Gaza [...]
Andrew Sullivan: To read Charles Krauthammer today is to enter a twilight zone of an alternate reality. A country permanently occupying and colonizing a neighboring region, and treating its original inhabitants as dangerous interlopers, is the victim. An elite commando unit attacking a ship carrying toys and wheelchairs in the hours before dawn are those [...]
So much for Netanyahu’s claim that the assaulting Israeli soldiers used minimal force: al Jazeera - Two men were shot four times, and five of the victims were shot either in the back of the head or in the back, Buyuk told the newspaper, based on preliminary autopsy reports. Ibrahim Bilgen, a 60-year-old activist, was shot four [...]
See the al Jazeera video here.
Avaaz.org – Nearly 400,000 have signed in less than a week: “We call for an immediate, independent investigation into the flotilla assault, full accountability for those responsible, and the lifting of the Gaza blockade.”
Again, Lowkey, puts it down passionately and effectively. See the video here.
and they, especially Peck, speak with razor sharp rationale. See the video here.
Palestine Telegraph: The President Correa said: “The ambassador should leave Tel Aviv immediately, in protest against the attack on the fleet of freedom, which led to the killing and wounding of civilians. Nicaragua decided on Wednesday to freeze the diplomatic relations with” Israel. YNET News: “In view of the recent attack on the flotilla ship [...]
The fall out continues: “The Nicaraguan government Tuesday suspended the country’s diplomatic ties with Israel in protest of the Jewish state’s deadly raid on the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla on Monday… The Nicaraguan government ‘emphasized the illegal nature of the attack on a humanitarian mission in clear violation of international and humanitarian law,’ it added.” [...]
Razor Sharp: It’s time the Israeli government’s PR team made the most of its talents, and became available for hire. Then whenever a nutcase marched into a shopping mall in somewhere like Wisconsin and gunned down a selection of passers-by, they could be on hand to tell the world’s press “The gunman regrets the loss [...]
I got my blog up and running again just in time to comment on Israel’s most recent savagery… But before I do, I want to remind the blog’s viewers that this blog though experiencing some technical difficulties at the moment, will always be back up and running, no matter what. I am, however, in the [...]