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Tag Archives: Gaza
Israel Navy surrounds last Flotilla ship
Alkarameh – Dignity French ship is miles away from the Gaza Strip but the Israeli Navy already moved to try to stop it from moving forward. The ship holds ten activists on board and determines to move forward towards Gaza in an attempt to demonstrate against the Israeli siege on Gaza.
The recent UN commission report that supported the naval blockade on Gaza and considered it legal encouraged the Israeli authorities to continue preventing any access into Gaza. The report also stated that Israel army used excessive force while trying to stop the former Gaza flotilla.
Death of an Activist in Gaza by Salafists
As Gaza mourns the death of Vittorio Arrigoni, the Italian activist and long standing pro-Palestinian advocate, hundreds gather at the candlelight vigil [singlepic id=522 w=320 h=240 float=right]organized in his honor. Back in the West Bank, foreign peacekeepers and activists were reported to have marched to a house of mourning in El Bireh as a show of support for their colleague.
Vittorio Arrigoni was a 36 year-old activist working for the ISM (International Solidarity Movement), well-known for his dedication and commitment to the Palestinian cause, the young man’s life was cut short as he was about to return to Italy. But let’s take a closer at the man who for his beliefs paid the ultimate price.
Rightness, Justice and Law in the eyes of Israel: Meir Kahane is right too
Turkel commission is an Israeli committee that was made to investigate the Gaza flotilla probe and to give a statement about the legality of the Israeli naval [singlepic id=465 w=320 h=240 float=right]blockade of Gaza. Not surprisingly the first part of the report states that the blockade does not break the international law, it is completely legal and that there is no starving in Gaza and that the Palestinian human rights are protected.
The report is based on one claim: a state can control the transportation and movement of a territory that is outside its borders to protect its security. Beside that, the report states that Israel prevented any kind of starvation inside Gaza while holding a blockade on it from all the sides. The writers of the report
Two years after the Israeli War on Gaza: Israeli leaders threaten to launch a new military operation
Deputy of Israeli Prime Minister, Silvan Shalom said today that Israel would launch a new military operation in Gaza. Shalom said that Israel refuses to [singlepic id=442 w=320 h=240 float=right] accept the current situation in the area around Gaza strip. Israeli Minister Yuval Shtaints stated tat sooner or later Israel will have to attack Hamas and end its sovereignty in Gaza.
Shtaints criticized the Palestinian efforts to get an International recognition of the Palestinian state and said that without peace there will be no Palestinian state. On the ground, the Israeli army killed two Palestinians and injured a third while they were trying to launch an attack on the southern borders of Gaza
Wikileaks and the Mossad, the Palestinian Authority ambition to get a recognition of a Palestinian state, and the rising tension in Gaza
Julian Assange, who is the founder of Wikileaks stated in an interview with AlJazeera that his website will publish thousands of documents that are related to [singlepic id=440 w=320 h=240 float=right]Israel, Second Lebanon War and Al-Mabhouh assassination in Dubai. Assange denied any kind of secret agreement with Israel that prevents the releasing of documents related to the latter.
Assange’s statement that puts Israel in a sensitive situation especially if Wikileaks releases secret documents that proves Israel’s role in Dubai’s assassination and other operations such as the assassination of the Syrian President consultant is not the only reason that is worrying Israel. President Mahmoud Abbas
Gaza Stay Human – Vittorio Arrigoni/ Introduction by Ilan Pappe – Book Review
Ilan Pappe, a professor of History at the University of Exeter starts his introduction in the book by saying: “ It is first and foremost an eyewitness account of 
an everyman and a true humanist. He was there during the Operation “Cast Lead” and so his daily dispatches came directly from the killing fields of Gaza, and are therefore free of any media distortion or manipulation.”
Gaza Stay Human is an amazing book that introduces the twenty-two day Israeli offensive against Gaza strip in December 2008 and January 2009.
Israel offers to “ease” the blockade on Gaza
After three years of blockade on more than one million and seven hundred Palestinians who live in the Gaza strip,[singlepic id=247 w=280 h=200 float=right] Israel is considering an easement on the entrance to the strip but refuses to end the blockade. The Israeli decision to consider an easement on the entrances to Gaza was made after the worldwide criticism that was made about the Israeli policy regarding the Gaza strip and the late freedom flotilla incident that Israel killed in it nine peace activists while preventing it from reaching Gaza.
The Freedom Flotilla incident and Israel’s war plans for the future
While observing Israel’s latest action in attacking the freedom flotilla, one can reach a conclusion that Israel’s policy in using force will lead the area to war [singlepic id=237 w=300 h=210 float=right]soon. The current Israel government has been working since several months to prepare for the next confrontation in the Middle East.
The Israeli army made several exercises and training to evaluate its capability in both launching a war and defending a possible attack in any moment. Not only this but the security forces have trained itself very well to know how to deal with the Israeli population while in war. The diplomatic effort to gain an international support for a possible Israeli attack is in its high levels.
