On July 8, hundreds of internationals will fly into Ben Gurion Airport and openly declare that we are here to visit Palestinians and travel in the Occupied Territories.
Dahr Jamail, Max Blumenthal, Al Jazeera English and MaxBlumenthal.com. June 28, 2011.
Activists say the ship directed at breaking Israel's blockade of Gaza has been damaged in Greek port; exposing Hagee's support for pro-Israel legal group.
For flotilla activists, the struggle is as much about forcing a local debate on alternatives to Mideast policy as confronting Israel’s continued oppression of Palestinians.
Peter Certo, Foreign Policy in Focus. September 28, 2010.
The Israeli soldiers boarded at night in international waters, which means that they were by definition aggressors who cannot claim to have acted in self-defense.
Adam Horowitz, Philip Weiss, O/R Books. August 11, 2010.
This excerpt from the new book, "Midnight on the Mavi Marmara," explains how the world is now forced to reconsider what Zionism has actually built in the Middle East.
'Anyone who does not agree with the government and/or military policy is perceived as a traitor. Democracy is to be feared and freedom of speech has become profanity.'
International condemnation has deepened the Israeli public's siege mentality, leading many demonstrators to claim that anti-Semitism best explained the world's motives.
Questions remain unanswered on both sides. But without a full and transparent airing of all the evidence, the truth of that dreadful night on the Marmara may never come to light.
When Israeli commandos dropped from the sky, swarmed the vessels and massacred international activists, Israel lost a massive battle in its global public relations war.
