Israel Flotilla Raid – Breakdown of Who’s Right and Wrong

Cyek Uygur of the Young Turks analyzes the blame question over the Israel’s flotilla massacre.

Though he misses the mounting evidence that Israeli commandos were firing before they landed, a possibility that would have taken place before the melee on the IDF tape, Uygur makes some good observations about the laughability of the American proposal that Israel investigate itself, and demonstrates the criminality of the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

The IDF Video of the Sea Assault and Other Disasters

Gearing up for a battle, the IDF releases a video taken by their friendly naval ship and their peace loving do no wrong Israeli soldiers. World, Israel has a message for you, when an Israeli soldiers lands on your ship, greet them with flowers and candy do not try to send them off…..First for weeks now, Israel has been promising to meet the activists with might and fire. I think it’s fair to expect the worst and try to protect yourself from Israel and its juvenile military leaders.

Israel’s Culture of Impunity Leads to Another Massacre

Israel’s farcical propaganda aside, its murderous rampage against unarmed humanitarian aid organizers aboard the flotilla to Gaza is beyond justification. To start with, Israel’s embargo is morally bankrupt and deplorable.

Its enforcement of this siege is inherently criminal. And so criminality is the basic principle of Israeli policy regarding Gaza.

Hamas, Politics, and the Gaza Mosques

During my visit to Gaza, I had learned about how politics have been injected into the places of worship in Gaza. Mosques in Gaza are everywhere and thanks to a high unemployment rate and the fact that desperation leads to people to God. Attendance is at all time high. That’s all fine and great, praying people are no more dangerous than no praying ones. However in the past the majority of Gaza mosques have been preaching life lessons, religious sermons about the life of the early Muslims and the proper way to worship. Few mosques where getting into politics and advocating one side’s political agendas. But that all changed after the Hamas take over. In addition to taking control of all government properties, Hamas militants wanted to take over mosques in Gaza in order to give them more platforms to defend their actions and point fingers to those who disagree with them.

You Know a Country’s Fucked up When…

…its officials call a humanitarian aid shipment “a provocation.”

In anticipation of the Free Gaza Movement’s most recently launched, and largest, flotilla of aid ships seeking to get banned and other supplies to Gaza — where the vast majority of the people are aid-dependent — Israeli authorities have set up detention tents in the country’s main southern port. They spent days undergoing intense naval maneuvers to prepare to stop the 750 humanitarian activists attempting to break Israel’s unjustifiable 3-year blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Guest Post: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? The Butcher of Gaza is

One year after the first anniversary of the war on Gaza during which the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] murdered 1,400 Palestinians including 400 children, the IDF and war criminal Lt. General Gabi Ashkenazi will be coming over for dinner.
The Gaza War was a three-week Israeli military assault that took place in the Gaza Strip during the winter of 2008–2009.

Faced With Egypt’s Wall, Gaza Tunnels Go On Sale

A news report by Falasteen Alyoom “فلسطين اليوم” reports that now one can buy a functioning Gaza tunnel for $20,000 instead of $150,000, the ongoing price. It seems that the laws of supply and demand work even in the smuggling business in Gaza. Smuggling tunnels have become popular in the Gaza Strip after the Embargo of 2007 that limits the amounts of goods entering into that narrow strip of land.

Hamas to Participate in “Let’s Move!”

Early Thursday morning, Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha announced the establishment of a fat camp in the Gaza Strip. “We are reaching out to America,” Taha stated. “We’ve witnessed its First Lady’s quest against childhood obesity and want to help. What better place for fat American kids to lose weight than in Gaza?”

Ten Things Hamas Got Right in Gaza

Like many organizations Hamas is not a one unified group and it seldom speaks with one voice. In Gaza, there are few reasonable men and women who are in leadership positions in Hamas Gaza government. Those Hamas leaders, many educated in the West have no military background and that’s why many in the international community do not mind working with them. However, since those leaders have no militant connection, they are often weak in the ranks of Hamas and its decisions making. The bands of tugs and militant groups that is commissioned with protecting the establishment of Hamas and its leaders are the dangerous one. Most Hamas militants do not mind breaking into people’s homes and even kill individuals of interest. As long as you are away from the Radar of those Hamas militants, you are safe.

Israel, Not Hamas, Bans Music in Gaza

During my visit to Gaza this summer saw devastation, destruction and hunger on daily basis. I heard so many horror stories about the situation on the ground prior to my visit, but many of those stories came alive as I walked down the shattered streets of Gaza and spoke to people with shattered dreams and [...]