Israeli embassy officials continued to insult the dead by pouring scorn on the trial and calling it a “unilateral political act with no judicial credibility” because the four accused were being tried in absentia. Perhaps Ashkenazi, Marom, Yadlin and Levy should man up and travel to Istanbul to submit themselves before Mavi Marmara court.
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Erdogan: Israel is the West’s Spoiled Child
When the US casts that veto at the UN, Obama will be rejecting an important segment of those progressive supporters who, in 2008, walked the streets for him and brought voters to the polls because they believed he would be a different kind of president. The PEPs (Progressive except on Palestine) won’t care, but peace and justice volunteers will.
Warped Flotilla “inquiry” invites mega-mischief
The Palmer report deserves condemnation and is getting it. Such dangerous tripe belongs in the wastepaper basket.
As Turkey Freezes Israel Ties, Critics Decry “Whitewashed” U.N. Report on Gaza Flotilla, Blockade
The U.N. report concludes that the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip is legal under international law. Democracy Now! interview with author Norman Finkelstein and Free Gaza Movement organizer Huwaida Arraf.
Turkey Does the Right Thing
Turkey decided to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Israel and suspend military ties with the Zionist state after Tel Aviv’s refusal to do the decent thing and apologize for murdering unarmed civilians on the high seas.
UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis “Executed” US Citizen Furkan Dogan
By Gareth Porter* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered [...]
Guilty As Charged: UN Report on Gaza Flotilla Massacre
By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On September 22, Reuters headlined the news, saying: “UN Experts Condemn Israel Attack on Gaza Flotilla” It explained that the UN Human Rights Council’s (HRC) “panel of international experts” concluded what was obvious on day one – that Israel’s international water attack “was unlawful and resulted in [...]
Sinking Ship – By John J. Mearsheimer
The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself. By John J. Mearsheimer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israel’s botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable of reversing. The attack also highlights the extent to which [...]
Anait Brutian: Let the Truth Be Heard!
By Anait Brutian* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On June 16, 2010 the International Action Center circulated a petition entitled: Defend Gaza Freedom Flotilla Survivors’ Right to Speak! The petition concerned a scheduled event for Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 7:00 PM at House of the Lord Church, 415 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn and a speaking [...]
The Final Turkel Commission Report – Submitted To: The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu
The Final Turkel Commission Report July 4, 2010 Submitted To: The Most Honorable Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu By Mohamed Khodr* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In response to the world’s outrage (except the U.S.) against Israel’s May 31st murderous attack on peace activists aboard the “Free Gaza Flotilla” delivering humanitarian aid to besieged [...]
Alison Weir: Israel’s Flotilla “Investigation” – Accused Murderer Chooses Own Jury; Court Reporter is Family Member
Another Compromised Reporter By Alison Weir* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The New York Times, whose regional bureau chief has a son in the Israeli military, reports that Israel has just appointed a panel charged with investigating its attack on an aid flotilla that killed nine aid volunteers, including a 19-year-old American. Isabel Kershner, who [...]
A Voyage of Life and Death [Video]
In the early hours of Monday, May 31, the Israeli navy intercepted a flotilla of boats carrying thousands of tonnes of aid to Gaza. Nine passengers on the Mavi Marmara – the flotilla’s largest boat – were killed. This much we know. In the aftermath of the event, accounts from both sides have diverged wildly. [...]
The Images Israel Didn’t Want Seen: New Video from Gaza Freedom Flotilla
In the wake of the commando raid that left nine dead, the Israeli government confiscated every recording and communication device it could find–thus allowing the state to control what the world learned about the assault. Filmmaker and activist Iara Lee was one of the few Americans on-board the Mavi Marmara. Despite the Israeli government’s thorough [...]
Protecting America’s Security from the USS Liberty to the Freedom Flotilla
By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “We do not need to apologize for defending ourselves. The armada of hate and violence is merely one manifestation of the constant provocation Israel faces.” (Danny Ayalon, Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel) Only a member of the Netanyahu Court could stand before the TV cameras of [...]
Save Israel from itself
Obama and his fellow Americans have to decide where they stand: On the side of freedom and justice or Israel? By Aijaz Zaka Syed* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz JUST when you think Israel cannot descend any lower, it surprises you with ever-new depths of depravity. If anyone ever needed any more evidence about the [...]
Israel Says No, The US Agrees: Time For The World To Get Serious
By Dr. Alan Sabrosky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz So the predictable dynamics are unfolding. Anywhere the US does not have a veto, Israel is being condemned for its latest atrocities and for its illegal blockade on Gaza. Israel as usual has its puppets in the US Congress and the US mainstream media coming to [...]
The Gaza Siege: A Fact Sheet
What exactly is the blockade of Gaza? By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In recent days, coverage of the attack on the aid flotilla headed to the Gaza Strip has focused on the lack of availability of certain humanitarian goods. This fact sheet is a reference tool based on international aid agencies and [...]
UPDATE! Video: Turkey’s PM Erdogan speech with subtitles
Update 1: Part two was added. Update 2: Part three was added. Following is part one (first 15 minutes) of full speech of Turkey’s PM Erdogan responding to Israel’s terrorist attack against humanitarian aid ships “Freedom Flotilla”. Part 1: Video link: http://loaditup.blip.tv/file/3707889/ Code to embed part 1 in your blog:
Beyond The Gaza Flotilla Attack: What Needs To Be Done, And How
By Dr. Alan Sabrosky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The opening moves in the reaction to the Israeli interception of the first wave of the Gaza flotilla have now been made. Israel visibly underestimated the international response to its attack and the casualties it inflicted. Widespread condemnation ensued almost everywhere, many Americans became aware for [...]
Israeli raid on flotilla: an intentional message for Gaza and the rest of the world
By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On Monday Israeli commandos boarded one of the civilian passenger ships that was part of the “freedom flotilla” sailing to break Israel’s siege on Gaza and opened fire, killing at least nine and injuring many others. My first reaction was, as respected New York Times columnist Nick [...]
Richard Falk, Huwaida Arraf & Norman Finkelstein on the Freedom Flotilla
In the middle of the night Monday, Israeli commandos boarded ships in the “Freedom Flotilla” attempting to bring humanitarian aid to residents of still-blockaded Gaza. The aggressive response by Israel turned deadly, after with at least nine activists killed. The international community has reacted with shock and outrage; protests have erupted around the world outside [...]
UPDATED: Full Text of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Speech! (English, Turkish and subs Video)
Translated and transcribed from Turkish by Güzin Bilgi for www.palestinethinktank.com and Gulagnik Translators (www.gulaknick.wordpress.com) English editing by Mary Rizzo. It may be reprinted with full credits to the translators and source. You can watch the speech video with English subs at the end of English script! English: Today I do not only want to speak [...]
Open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Dr. Christof Lehmann * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz June 1st 2010 Open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Your Excellence, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu I am a clinical psychologist, specialized in psycho-traumatology, and have been working for over twenty five years with victims of human caused trauma. When I say, that I have the [...]
Israel’s International Piracy
By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As expected by many, the serial terrorist Israeli army attacked this morning, May 31st 2010, the “Freedom Flotilla” ships with gas bombs and live fire, murdering at least 19 humanitarian international activists, 16 of them Turks including one MP, and injuring 29 others. The Israeli navy, [...]
Alan Sabrosky: The Madness Of Arrogance: Israel’s Attack On The Gaza Aid Flotilla
By Dr. Alan Sabrosky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israel’s attack on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla on America’s Memorial Day was all too predictable, although the form it took surprised even me. And it confirms the old proverb that “Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,” for the attack was the kind [...]
RAW FOOTAGE: Israel navy massacres on one of Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB-Mk4bFz-U Spread the video:
American Humanitarian Hypocrisy; Armenian Genocide
By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The hypocrisy of the American legislators has never stopped to amaze me. On Thursday March 4th The House Foreign Affairs Committee had approved, by 23 to 22 votes, a non-binding resolution to condemn WWI-era massacre of Armenians on the hands of the Ottoman troops that began [...]
Big Brother Erdogan
By Sami Moubayed* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz After the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in Ankara, many in the West referred to a new Turkish foreign policy called “neo-Ottomanism”, suggesting a revival of the intellectual, political and social influence of the Ottoman Empire, which departed the scene 92 years ago. That [...]
It’s Not a New Turkey, It’s The Right Time
By Ramzy Baroud* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Uri Avnery’s assessment of the recent Israeli-Turkish diplomatic and political row – that “the relationship between Turkey and Israel will probably return to normal, if not to its former degree of warmth” – seems sensible and daring. In my view, however, it is also inaccurate. Simply put, [...]
Our Last Port Is Freedom
By Free Gaza Movement Team Sending a Flotilla in the Spring to Break the Siege of Gaza Contact: IHH, Ahmet Emin +90 530 341 19 34 Free Gaza Movement, Eliza Ernshire +44 754 011 22 94 [Istanbul, Turkey] Today the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Relief Foundation (IHH), announce a joint venture, sending 10 [...]
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