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You Sank My Humanitarian Aid! ⇒

   31 May 2010, early morning

The IDF attacks a boat full of protesters trying to bring aid to Gaza who were in international waters.

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  1. The Gaza Blocakade. More people have died from their generators messing them up than from this raid, all because Israel won’t let them rebuild the power plant the IDF blew up.

    by ramanan on June 4 2010, 10:50 am   #

  2. Whether the Israelis fired at the passengers before or after landing on the ship matters little to the crux of what happened here. The initial act of aggression was the Israeli seizing of a ship in international waters which was doing nothing hostile; that action was taken to enforce a horrific, inhumane blockade and, more generally, a brutal, decades-long occupation; and whatever else is true, at least nine civilians were killed by the Israeli Navy, only the latest example of Israel (and the U.S.) using massive military force against civilians.

    — Glenn Greenwald

    by ramanan on June 4 2010, 4:01 pm   #

  3. This marine looks like a total bad-ass. Israel is accusing him of being a terrorist sent to train Hamas. He wasn’t impressed with that allegation.

    by ramanan on June 7 2010, 11:05 am   #

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