Gaza flotilla
Dec 8 2010, Marco Villa

The nadir of Turkish-Israeli relations thus far is when Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire on Turkish humanitarians seeking to deliver food and medical supplies to 1.5million Palestinians besieged in Gaza due to an Israeli blockade. Israeli...

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Gil, Jerusalem
The Israel Navy is planning to take control Tuesday of a Gaza-bound aid boat organized by Jewish activists from Israel and abroad. The military has been closely...
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Michael Davison, Raanana
When I saw the headline of this article, my first thought was, “What, again?” I was expecting a typical BBC hatchet job on Israel, as usual. Anyone who’s...
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Muzikansky, Jerusalem
Israel threatened Monday to pull out of a U.N. inquiry into a deadly raid on a Turkish flotilla heading for Gaza, after the U.N. chief said there is no agreement that...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
An American Gaza flotilla reflects the growing pro-Palestinian movement in the United States. American supporters of Palestinians still have a long way to go in...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
When Israel attacked a humanitarian convey in international waters and killed nine civilians, the Israeli government and its American apologists argued that a nation...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
In solidarity with the Palestinians and in response to an Israeli attack in international waters on a Gaza-bound flotilla (to break the Israeli inhumane blockade) that...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Turkey and Israel used to share a strategic relationship that was written down in a 1996 military cooperation agreement whereby the Turkish military would award Israeli...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
After the Gaza flotilla massacre - where Israeli occupation troops killed nine Turks - the previously strategic ties between Turkey and Israel appeared set to meet...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Unlike past crises between Turkey and Israel, this time relations do not appear to moving back into normalcy. Barring dramatic breakthroughs in peace between Israel and...
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Brandon, Rochester
Two Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers said on Friday. They said they recovered the body of...
made popular Jun 26 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
While a many American editors and journalists still write with caution on Israel so as not to offend Zionist sensibilities, some American cartoons are making their...
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Alex, Portland
The international community has welcomed Israel’s decision to ease its land blockade of the Gaza Strip, a decision made Thursday after weeks of pressure from its...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Gaza Flotillas steered by Jews are now heading to attempt to break the siege. Since 2006, the besieged Palestinian Gaza Strip - home to 1.5million people of whom 70%...
made popular Jun 19 2010
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Ali, Tehran
Iranian ships carrying aid supplies are due to set sail for Gaza in the coming week, Iran’s state news agency has reported. The move is likely to further...
made popular Jun 15 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Israel has clearly instructed its domestic lobby to go to work demonizing the Gaza flotilla: branding all of the civilian activists as terrorist and the funding...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
After Israel’s massacre of nine civilian activists in international waters abroad a flotilla intending to deliver aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip, the...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Israel’s increasingly more militant population is not content killing nine civilian activists on the Gaza flotilla in international waters. The Israelis...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Israel is such a self-righteous nation it never once stops to consider if its growing isolation is due to its grotesque abuse, killings and occupation of Palestinians...
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Wa'd, Amman
A new video has been released from the Israeli attacked flotilla heading to Gaza. The IDF attacked the flotilla and left at least 19 people dead. Most victims were...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
After the murder of nine Turkish civilians in international waters by Israeli commandos, the Turkish government has stated that future humanitarian flotillas to the...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
I have been documenting, or, rather reporting on the documentation, of IDF Lies in the wake of the Gaza flotilla: After its massacre of nine Turkish civilians, Israel...
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Inon, Jerusalem
Israeli and Palestinian officials say Israel has allowed some formerly banned food items into the Gaza Strip after widespread international criticism of its...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
After its massacre of nine Turkish civilians, Israel went on the offensive in its propaganda. So delusional and extreme (and really underlining Israeli insecurity) was...
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Alain, Paris
The French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner has suggested that Europe take responsibility for oversight of materials entering Gaza from the sea. Under an...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
After its massacre of civilian activists in international waters, Israel immediately detained the activists and confiscated their cameras in order to prevent them from...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Give it up once more for the old badass holding it down for decades now: Helen Thomas. Unlike the other poseurs and phonies in the White House press corps whom all...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
After Israel’s massacre of nine Turkish civilians and its temporary arrest of hundreds more on the Gaza flotilla (in international waters), Turkey stated that if...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Israel claimed “weapons” were on board the flotilla. As you can see the “weapons” are those awful food, medicine and wheelchairs. I have...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Forget about America’s right-wing. Their support for Israel and hatred for Arabs and Muslims is not worth exhausting any effort of condemnation since it is simply...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The immorality and depravity of Israel knows no bounds: According to a report in The Guardian, an Algerian activist, who gave her name as Sabrina, revealed that...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
In an interview with American journalists, Turkey’s ambassador to the United States - Amb. Namik Tan - made it clear that Turkey may be on the verge of ceasing...
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Ari Rusila, Jyväskylä
“If ships reach Gaza - victory, if terrorized by Zionists - victory.” (PM Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas) The Gaza Flotilla is a model example of successful PR...
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This is the storyboard that you would definitely have heard. What perhaps you will not hear, at least not so readily, is that the humanitarian flotilla was the...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
As the bodies are identified after Israel’s massacre in international waters, it has been made known that an American citizen was amongst the dead. Furkan...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
In the wake of Israel’s massacre of 9 civilians on a flotilla in international waters seeking to deliver aid to the Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip and...
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Marcela, London
They are the generation who protested in the 1960s and have girded themselves again to campaign for Palestinian rights. The Free Gaza movement, which chartered the...
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Erkut, Ankara
Turkish planes carrying hundreds of activists from the Gaza-bound aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces have arrived in Istanbul from Israel. The activists...
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Faheem, Abbottabad
Israeli raid on Freedom Flotilla has triggered a wave of protests in Pakistan. Political parties and different organisations have been condemning the Israeli action...
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Juha, Helsinki
Avi Granot, Israel’s ambassador to Finland, was summoned to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on Tuesday to explain Israel’s actions in connection with...
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