Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
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MIDNIGHT ON THE MAVI MARMARA
The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israeli/Palestine Conflict
Moustafa Bayoumi, Editor
"We have been attacked while in international waters. That means the Israelis have behaved like pirates ... The moment they start to steer this ship towards Israel, we have also been kidnapped. The whole action is illegal."—Henning Mankell, aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Eastern Mediterranean, Monday, May 31st, 2010, 4.30am: Israeli commandos, boarding from sea and air, attack the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sails through international waters bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes, nine peace activists are dead, shot by the Israelis. Scores of others are injured. The 700 people on board the ships are arrested before being transported to detention centers in Israel and then deported. Within hours, outrage at Israel's action echoes around the world. Spontaneous demonstrations in Europe, the United States, Turkey, and Gaza itself denounce the attack. Turkey's prime minister describes it as a "bloody massacre" and "state terrorism." Lebanon's prime minister calls it "a dangerous and crazy step that will exacerbate tensions in the region." In these pages, a range of activists, journalists, and analysts piece together the events that occurred that June night, unpicking their meanings for Israel's illegal, three-year-long blockade of Gaza and the decades-long Israel/Palestine conflict more generally. Mixing together first-hand testimony, documentary record, and illustration, with hard-headed analysis and historical overview, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara reveals why the attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla may just turn out to be Israel's Selma, Alabama: the beginning of the end for an apartheid Palestine.
Contributors include: Omar Barghouti, Max Blumenthal, Juan Cole, Sara Roy, Norman Finkelstein, Glenn Greenwald, Rashid Khalidi, Alia Malek , Lubna Masarwa and Raja Shehadeh.
Film courtesy of Cultures of Resistance
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As a Turkish Jew l am totally disturbed by this action of Israel and lost for words when all my life did nothing but sided with Israel in every arena but this incident left bad taste in my mouth and l am still trying to deal with it,Israel must end this kind of pilicy makes Israel look bad in the eyes of the World
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Dead terrorists make me smile.
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Yeah buddy go you!The people on that ship had the freedom and right to defend themselves from men attempting to commandeer it. They would of been dealt with the same way as Somalian pirates. So really stop advocating high sea piracy. Besides, this is all ironic, the Turks sent out aid ships for the Palestinians right? Weren't the Turks also the ones who sent out aid ships for the prosecuted Jews of Europe from the inquisition until WW2? Gave them a whole city and everything, lest you forget that
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Those "peace activists" were really good with those metal pipes, knives, and stolen guns. Did anyone know that 7 commandos were wounded, 2 of them severely? Some peace flotilla.
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just because we're completely against what Israel's doing doesn't mean that we're anti-semitic. I'm jewish myself, and think what they're doing is terrible.
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You sick anti-semites! Don't you see how ridiculous you are?
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Informative video lets hope we get justice for the innocence inshallah. Never forget the MV Mavi Marmara and there mission to break the siege of Gaza.
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I really believe that the people of Gaza are being collectivly punished by Israel for what the extremists of Hamas are doing.
But not even the most naive pro-palestinian activist could agree to the mindless claims posted in this video.
If there werent any weapons on board,who hurt the Israeli soldiers?
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You can see their wounds clearly in the photos from the Turkish media.
Just google Hürriyet, Israeli raid.
Mavi Marmara had a crew of 600 persons, many of these were armed with knives and iron pipes.
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You must go on NEVER QUIT Palestine will be free again
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Free Palestine!
God bless you all.
Saludos desde Brasil
soldodeserto 1 year ago 6
Israel has shot itself in the foot bigtime now ... FREE PALESTINE!!! WE WILL NEVER STOP, ISRAEL DECIDES NOTHING!
seraph101 1 year ago 4