Just Released: Unedited Footage from Mavi Marmara of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla (1 hour)

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Cultures of Resistance
June 11, 2010

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JUST RELEASED: ONE HOUR OF FOOTAGE FROM MAVI MARMARA

Footage taken aboard largest ship in Gaza Freedom Flotilla in hour before and during raid by Israeli military

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A full hour of raw footage taken aboard the Mavi Marmara in the hour leading up to and during the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has just been made available to view at: [see below]

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The second worst thing that ever happened to the Jewish people is the state of Israel by William Blum

by William Blum
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Dandelion Salad
www.killinghope.org
11 June, 2010

The Anti-Empire Report

The worst thing that ever happened to the Jewish people is the Holocaust. The second worst thing that ever happened to the Jewish people is the state of Israel.

Things internationally are so dispiriting there’s nothing left to do but fantasize. I picture Turkey, as a member of NATO, demanding that the alliance come to its defense after being attacked by Israel. Under Article 5 of the NATO charter an armed attack on one member is deemed to constitute an armed attack on all members. That is the ostensible reason NATO is fighting in Afghanistan — the attack against the United States on September 11, 2001 is regarded as an attack on all NATO members (disregarding the awkward fact that Afghanistan as a country had nothing to do with the attack). The Israeli attack on a Turkish-flagged ship, operated by a Turkish humanitarian organization, killing nine Turkish nationals and wounding many more can certainly constitute an attack upon a NATO member.

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