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Gaza protest boat forced into Israeli port

by News Sources 07.19.2011
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Israel Navy intercepts sole remnant of flotilla heading for Gaza

by News Sources 07.19.2011

Haaretz reports: The Israel Navy intercepted the French yacht Dignite-Al Karame on Tuesday after it had refused to stop heading toward the Gaza shore, as per IDF instructions. Elite troops from Shayetet 13, a naval commando unit, boarded the vessel minutes after IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz issued the order to intercept it and [...]

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Gaza-bound ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists sets sail from Greece

by News Sources 07.18.2011

Amira Hass reports from somewhere in the East Mediterranean. On Saturday evening a Gaza-bound boat left Greek territorial waters. Its 10 participants regard themselves as representatives of the entire abortive flotilla to Gaza, and are determined to exhaust all possibilities in order to reach their destination, or at least carry out the symbolic act of [...]

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Journalists barred from flight to Israel

by News Sources 07.07.2011

Al Jazeera reports: Two Dutch journalists were not allowed to board a flight from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv late yesterday. Security Correspondent Bud Wichers and Photographer Ettora Hesseling, who are both working for an International news agency, recently covered the preparation of the Dutch Flotilla activists from Greece. They intended to sail with flotilla, but [...]

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Juliano ship heads for Gaza

by News Sources 07.06.2011

Ynet reports: The Gaza-bound Juliano ship left Greece Wednesday afternoon, after suffering huge delays due in part to a ban set by Athens on the departure of flotilla ships from its ports. On board the ship are 20 activists. Last week flotilla organizers claimed that Israel had sabotaged the ship in an attempt to prevent [...]

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‘Sexy Israel’ getting treatment for flotilla nightmares – updated

by News Sources 07.06.2011

Dimi Reider writes: I’m somewhat of a fool for excruciatingly bad Hasbara videos, but this one surely takes the cake: From this video, we learn “Israel” is massively paranoid, even somewhat hysterical, believing edited second-hand evidence from biased sources (IDF spokesman’s video from the flotilla), suspicious of people trying to help her and storming out [...]

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Audacity of Hope‘s attempt to break the Greek blockade

by News Sources 07.06.2011
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Egypt to Gaza: The road begins here

by News Sources 07.05.2011

An editorial in Egypt’s Al-Masry Al-Youm says: Egypt owes its unique history prior Mubarak to its pro-activeness in the region. A revolutionary Egypt must now reclaim its former prominence. Perhaps the re-opening of Rafah border crossing and the success of the Palestinian reconciliation in Cairo are living proof that the Arab World’s national dignity following [...]

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Greece confines Gaza flotilla and frees U.S. captain

by News Sources 07.05.2011

Reuters reports: The captain of a U.S. ship arrested for trying to sail to Gaza as part of a flotilla aiming to deliver aid to Palestinians despite a Greek ban was freed on Tuesday, but three other activists were still in custody. Just over a year after nine people were killed when Israeli marines stormed [...]

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A July Fourth shame on America’s founders

by News Sources 07.05.2011

Ray McGovern writes: Yes, that was I standing before the U.S. Embassy in Athens on the eve of the July Fourth weekend holding the American flag in the distress mode — upside down. Indignities experienced by me and my co-guests on “The Audacity of Hope,” the American boat to Gaza, over the past ten days [...]

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Outsourcing the Gaza blockade

by News Sources 07.04.2011
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Sabotaging Flotilla II: waging war against civil society

by News Sources 07.04.2011

International law and international relations scholar, Richard Falk, writes: The reports that two of the foreign flagged ships planning to be part of the ten vessel Freedom Flotilla II experienced similar forms of disabling sabotage creates strong circumstantial evidence of Israeli responsibility. It stretches the imagination to suppose that a sophisticated cutting of the propeller [...]

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Canadian flotilla ship intercepted by Greek coast guards

by News Sources 07.04.2011

Al Jazeera reports: A Canadian ship taking part in a planned aid flotilla to Gaza has been forced to return to harbour in Crete after an attempt to reach international waters was thwarted by coast guards, according to onboard activists. Most of the vessels which hoped to sail to Gaza in an effort to break [...]

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Gaza Flotilla: The media battle in Israel

by News Sources 07.03.2011
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US captain of Gaza ship held in ‘shocking conditions’

by News Sources 07.03.2011

AFP reports: The captain of a US vessel intercepted after it tried to defy a ban and sail for Gaza from Greece is being held in “shocking conditions” Sunday and has not received consular assistance, a lawyer said. Captain John Klusmer was arrested when the US boat Audacity of Hope — the flagship in a [...]

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Israel and Greece forge closer ties

by News Sources 07.03.2011
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Gaza flotilla aims to leave Greece next week

by News Sources 07.03.2011

The Jerusalem Post reports: The fate of the flotilla to the Gaza Strip was in jeopardy on Saturday after Greek authorities prevented an American vessel from leaving Athens and issued a blanket order forbidding ships from sailing to the Gaza Strip. Despite the order and additional setbacks, Adam Shapiro, an American co-founder of the International [...]

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The flotilla narrative and Israel’s fear of the media

by News Sources 07.03.2011
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Why every flotilla succeeds and the siege of Gaza will end

by Paul Woodward 07.02.2011

Is it possible to break the siege of Gaza if no one notices? As an exercise in directing global attention to the plight of a population subject to collective punishment, the first flotilla in August 2008 was a bit of a flop — even though it reached Gaza. In the Jerusalem Post, Herb Keinon cynically [...]

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‘Netanyahu has become Greece’s lobbyist to the European Union’

by News Sources 07.01.2011

Haaretz reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sometimes seems almost too arrogant and self assured for his own good. However, unlike in most instances, this weekend he actually has justification for his haughtiness. Netanyahu’s personal investment in his relationship over the past year-and-a-half with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in which he increased diplomatic ties with [...]

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The battle over the Gaza Flotilla

by News Sources 07.01.2011

Joseph Dana reports: On Thursday, the passengers of the Audacity of Hope, the US boat in the “Freedom Flotilla 2” to Gaza—a convoy of ten boats, two cargo ships and some 300 civilians—emerged from their hotel on the edge of an Athens turned upside down. The air was heavy from the stench of garbage and [...]

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Israelis seem to have moved the blockade from Gaza to Greece

by News Sources 07.01.2011

The New York Times reports: With the propeller shafts of two ships mysteriously damaged, Greek authorities holding other vessels in port on government orders and an American boat turned back by the Greek Coast Guard just 20 minutes off the coast Friday, the international flotilla to Gaza has stalled. Organizers say they see the long [...]

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The power that we have to make change when our governments are silent

by News Sources 06.30.2011

Huwaida Arraf, Gaza Freedom Flotilla organizer, interviewed by PalestineStudiesTV: I’ve talked a lot with the Israeli media and told them that for their viewers/listeners/readers, this should not be perceived as anti-Israel or anti-Jewish. There are Israelis on our action; there are Jews from different countries. Part of our action — a quarter of the American [...]

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Alice Walker on ‘the freedom ride of this generation’

by News Sources 06.30.2011

Jesse Rosenfeld interviewed American author, Alice Walker, as she waits to depart as a passenger on The Audacity of Hope heading for Gaza. Reflecting on her years of activism, it is clear that Walker sees a connection between civil rights in America, liberation from apartheid in South Africa and the Palestinian cause. “Without the international [...]

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