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Israelsk massakre på nødhjælpskonvoj til Gaza

31. maj 2010

Linkbox om nødhjælpskonvojen “Freedom Flotilla” til Gaza og den israelske massakre.
(Socialistisk Bibliotek/Modkraft.dk/Tidsskriftcentret, juni 2010)

Indhold

Sites
Artikler
Baggrundsmateriale om Gaza
Kommentarer
Øjenvidneskildringer
Solidaritet

Se også på Modkraft.dk/Tidsskriftcentret:

Linkbox: Israels blodige krig mod Gaza’s folk

Se alle Tidsskriftcentrets emnelister, linkboxe mm. om Palæstina og Israel samlet i én emnebox: Om Palestina/Israel

Sites

Al Jazeera.net:
Focus: Gaza Flotilla

The Alternative Information Center

Democracy Now!
Feature: Gaza

The Electronic Intifada

Free Gaza Movement
Organisationen har ved flere lejligheder forsøgt at bringe nødhjælp til Gaza med skib.

Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
Kampagneside for Palestine Solidarity Campaign, England.

The Guardian
Israel attacks Gaza flotilla – live coverage
Link til flere artikler

Informed Comment
Juan Cole er professor i historie på University of Michigan og kommenterer forhold i Mellemøsten på sin blog Informed Content.

International Solidarity Movement, ISM
ISM har igennem en årrække støttet palæstinenserne kamp med ikke-voldelige midler. Mange artikler om nødhjælpsflåden.

International Middle East Media Center IMEMC
Opdateres løbende med nyheder om angrebet.

Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA)
Gaza

The Palestine Chronicle

Palestine Monitor

Window Into Palestine
Øjenvidneberetninger fra nødhjælpsskibene

WitnessGaza.com
Live dækning fra nødhjælpsskibene.

Artikler

Gaza’s nightmare shows the truth about Israel. By Hadas Thier (International Socialist Review, Issue 76, March–April 2011)
Review of Moustafa Bayoumi (ed.), Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israeli/Palestine Conflict (Haymarket Books, 2010) + Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians
(Haymarket Books, 2010)

Israel’s Palestinian minority thrown into a maelstrom. By Jonathan Cook (Middle East Report Online, June 16, 2010)
“If the blockade on Gaza is justified in the minds of Israeli Jews as collective punishment of the enclave’s Palestinian population for supporting Hamas, a similar skewed logic is being applied to Israel’s Palestinian citizens. According to this thinking, those who sent Zu”˜bi to the Knesset and those who revere Salah should be held accountable — and punished — for their representatives’ actions.”

Israeli law to criminalize advocates of boycotts, inside or outside of Israel. By Cecilie Surasky (Muzzlewatch, June 9, 2010)
“What is Israel’s reaction to the growing nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, and sanctions? Well criminalize it, of course!”

Flotilla activists ‘shot 30 times’ (Al Jazeera.net, 5 june 2010)
Autopsies on bodies of activists killed in Israel’s attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla five days ago indicate that the victims were shot multiple times at close range.

Baggrundsmateriale om Gaza

Report of the international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance (pdf) (United Nations, General Assembly, 27 September 2010, 66 p.)
“The fact-finding mission concluded that a series of violations of international law,
including international humanitarian and human rights law, were committed by the Israeli forces during the interception of the flotilla and during the detention of passengers in Israel prior to deportation.”

Citizen: Being a Gazan. By Moign Khawaja (Foreign Policy Journal, June 7, 2010)
“Gaza has been in the spotlight for the last couple of weeks in connection with the Freedom to Gaza Flotilla movement and Israel’s illegal and immoral response to it. There is no denial to the fact that the siege imposed by Israel for the last three years has worsened the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and has brought it to the brink of a man-made catastrophe.”

Red Lines Crossed: Destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure (pdf) (Gisha, August 2009, 56 p.)
Rapport fra Gisha – Legal center for freedom of movement, en israelsk menneskeretsorganisation om konsekvenserne af den israelske blokade af Gaza. Se Gisha Site for mere om de varer israelerne blokerer for.

United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (pdf) (United Nations, 25 September 2009, 451 s.)
“Goldstone rapporten”. FN rapport om Israels angreb på Gaza december 2008-januar 2009. Der er også fra sitet adgang til resume og konklusioner. Se også sitet Goldstone Facts (Goldstonefacts.org)

Wikipedia.org
2007–2010 blockade of the Gaza Strip
Gaza flotilla clash
International reactions to the Gaza flotilla clash

Kommentarer

Ophæv Gazablokaden nu! Af Ulla Jessing (Modkraft Blog, 18. juni 2010)
“Hele verden forstår nu, efter de israelske militær-angreb i internationalt farvand på nødhjælps-skibe til Gaza, at blokaden må hæves. Men desværre har EU på sit udenrigsministermøde overladt det til Tony Blair, som længe har været international fredsmægler i Mellemøsten uden at man har set nogle resultater, at finde en løsning på Gazablokaden. Tony Blair går med til Israels ønske om kun delvist at ophæve blokaden.”

Will the Flotilla attack be our “Kent State” moment? By Stephen Zunes (Foreign Policy in Focus, FPIF, June 7, 2010)
“The offensive by the Congressional Democratic leadership against the Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla has now moved beyond just rhetorical support for the Israeli attack on the unarmed convoy. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee’s subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation and trade, has called upon U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute U.S. citizens who were involved or on board the flotilla.”

Veteran peace activist: Israel trying to get Gaza people to overthrow Hamas. By Mazal Mualem (Haaretz, 7 June 2010)
“Benjamin Netanyahu is lying when he says the Gaza blockade exists in order to prevent the transfer of weapons to Gaza, Uri Avnery tells Haaretz.”

The day the world became Gaza. By Ali Abunimah (The Electronic Intifada, 4 June 2010)
“Since Israel’s invasion and massacre of over 1,400 people in Gaza 18 months ago,”…”, global civil society movements have stepped up their campaigns for justice and solidarity with Palestinians. Governments, by contrast, carried on with business as usual, maintaining a complicit silence.”

You will have no protection. By Alice Walker (The Electronic Intifada, 4 June 2010)
Kommentar af Alice Walker, internationalt kendt forfatter og feminist og deltager i CODEPINKs forsøg på at bryde blokaden mod Gaza i december 2009, med 1400 internationale aktivister via Ægypten.

Exodus, Mavi Marmara & History Repeating (Beauties and Beasts of the Middle East, June 1, 2010).
I 1947 forsøgte et skib med jødiske flygtninge at sejle til Palæstina. Det blev bordet at engelske tropper. “A struggle followed in which the immigrants put up a desperate defense, defending themselves with what was on board, primarily potatoes and canned goods. One crew member and two passengers were killed in the battle while dozens suffered bullet wounds and other injuries.”

Israel’s Latest Violation. By Stephen Zunes (Foreign Policy in Focus, PFIF, June 2, 2010)
“Every time Israel’s right-wing government engages in yet another outrageous violation of international legal norms, it is easy to think, ‘No way are they going to get away with it this time!’ And yet, thanks to the White House, Congress and leading American pundits, somehow, they do. Israel’s attack on an unarmed flotilla of humanitarian aid vessels”…”has so far not proven any different.”

Israel, folkeretten og Gaza-blokaden som problemets kerne. Af Trine Pertou Mach (Modkraft Blog, 2. juni 2010)
“Vi venter i spænding på, om kravet om ophør for blokaden følges op med handling, eller om opdelingen af denne verdens mennesker i to kategorier – dem, vi tager os af og dem, vi ofrer – snart ser sit endeligt. At Danmark næppe bliver drivkraft i den proces er begrædeligt men efterhånden ikke uventet.”

Gush Shalom in action: A crime against Israel (Gush Shalom, June 1, 2010)
Udtalelse fra israelsk fredsorganisation.

Norman G. Finkelstein: “Israel Is Now a Lunatic State”. Interviewed by Nadezhda Kevorkova (MR Online, 31 May 2010)
“What happened with the Gaza flotilla was not an accident. You have to remember that the Israeli cabinet met for fully a week. All the cabinet ministers discussed and deliberated how they would handle the flotilla.”
This video interview was released by Russia Today on 31 May 2010.

The massacre and the cover-up. By Dan Freeman-Maloy (ZNet, June 1, 2010; online at Internet Archive)
“The precise details of the seizure and ensuing massacre remain vague. And for good reason: Israel, whose officials have for weeks been discussing diplomatic options for confronting the flotilla (whose approximately 700 participants are accompanied by some 10,000 tons of cargo), launched a media disinformation blitz parallel to the military operation. In a pattern reminiscent of the Gaza assault of 2008-9, communications from the flotilla were persistently disrupted, its satellite telephones entirely cut off just prior to the pre-dawn assault.”

Israel has crossed the Rubicon. By Lynda Brayer (ZNet, June 1, 2010)
“Since today, we have a growing list of foreign martyrs murdered by the Israelis in the non-violent struggle for the Palestinian cause. We are also witnessing an increased number of people from Israel taking part in this particular struggle. An Israeli member of Knesset, Hanin Zoobi, and the universally respected leader of the Northern Islamic movement, Sheikh Raad Salah, were on board.”

Raid on the Gaza Flotilla. By Jonathan Cook (ZNet, June 1, 2010)
“It is quite astounding that Israel has been able to create over the past 12 hours a news blackout, just as it did with its attack on Gaza 18 months ago, into which our main media organisations have willingly allowed Israeli spokespeople to step in unchallenged.”

“Those responsible must be held criminally accountable”. By Richard Falk (ZNet, June 1, 2010; online at Internet Archive)
“There are three political imperatives that need to emerge with a sense of urgency: condemnation of the Israeli attack and an accompanying demand for the immediate end of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, appropriately by a decision in the UN Security Council; an authoritative launching of an investigation of war crimes allegations against Israel by the International Criminal Court; the widest possible endorsement and strengthening of the already growing worldwide boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign directed at Israel’s occupation policies in Palestinian Territories.”

Western leaders are too cowardly to help save lives. By Robert Fisk (The Independent, 1 June 2010)
“Has Israel lost it? Can the Gaza War of 2008-09 (1,300 dead) and the Lebanon War of 2006 (1,006 dead) and all the other wars and now yesterday’s killings mean that the world will no longer accept Israel’s rule? Don’t hold your breath.”

Outlaws of the Mediterranean. From the Editors (Middle East Report Online, June 1, 2010)
“Compared to the carnage in Gaza itself, the casualties among the Free Gaza Movement are few. Israel is counting on the US, once again, to deflect the international furor over its actions and enshrine the principle that Israel can do whatever it wants, legal or not, to the Palestinians and those who try to help them.”

International solidarity and the Freedom Flotilla massacre. Editorial (The Electronic Intifada, 31 May 2010)
“It is unclear how anyone could credibly adopt an Israeli narrative of “self-defense” when Israel had carried out an unprovoked armed assault on civilian ships in international waters. Surely any right of self-defense would belong to the passengers on the ship. Nevertheless, the Freedom Flotilla organizers had clearly and loudly proclaimed their ships to be unarmed civilian vessels on a humanitarian mission.”

Øjenvidneskildringer

Gaza Freedom Flotilla eyewitnesses speak out. By Tom Walker (Socialist Worker, 10 June 2010)
“Osama was one of the eyewitnesses to Israel’s massacre of nine activists taking aid to Gaza who spoke at a 200-strong meeting at London’s Conway Hall last night. He is a filmmaker with the Free Gaza Movement.”

Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara, May 31st 2010 // 15 min. Video by Iara Lee, Cultures of Resistance (Vimeo.com, Jun 9, 2010)
“Despite the Israeli government’s thorough efforts to confiscate all footage taken during the attack, Iara Lee was able to retain some of her recordings. Above is 15 minutes of footage from the moments leading up to and during the Israeli commandos’ assault on the Mavi Marmara.”

Eyewitness accounts uncover horror of Gaza convoy assault (Socialist Worker, 8 June 2010)
“The testimonies of people on the flotilla have blown apart Israel’s lies about what happened. Babu Adam Zanghar spoke at a rally outside the Israeli embassy last Saturday. He said, “We were attacked, some people were killed and others badly injured. Then the spin doctors applied their craft.”

43 Years after surviving Israeli attack on USS Liberty, US veteran Joe Meadors seized by Israeli forces on Gaza Aid Flotilla (Democracy Now!, 4 June 2010). Meadors interviewed by Amy Goodman:
“Joe Meadors was on one of the other Free Gaza boats that was seized early Monday morning.”…”In 1967, Meadors was a signalman aboard the USS Liberty, a US Navy electronic intelligence-gathering ship that was attacked by Israeli planes and torpedo boats in 1967. Thirty-four Americans were killed and more than 170 were wounded in the attack.” Video and trancripts.

Israeli MP’s terror aboard aid ship. By Jonathan Cook (The Electronic Intifada, 2 June 2010)
Haneen Zoubi, medlem af det israelske parlament, og deltager i nødhjælpskonvojen, beretter.

»Jeg så mange sårede, der var gennemvædet af blod«. Af Die Junge Welt/AI (Modkraft 2. juni 2010)
“Interview: Netop hjemvendt fra skibet »Mavi Marmara«, som blev bordet af israelske soldater, fortæller det tyske parlamentsmedlem Inger Höger, hvad der skete da mindst 9 aktivister blev skudt og dræbt i internationalt farvand på vej mod Gaza.”

Solidaritet

Israeli law to criminalize advocates of boycotts, inside or outside of Israel. By Cecilie Surasky (Muzzlewatch, June 9 2010)
“The proposed bill would target those that initiate, encourage, or provide assistance or information about boycotts against Israel.”

Anger on streets at Israeli flotilla attack (Socialist Worker, 8 June 2010)
“Up to 20,000 people poured onto the streets of London last Saturday to condemn Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May. In Edinburgh, over 5,000 marched to the US embassy against the Israeli attack.”

Blokade mod israelske skibe og varer (Arbejderen, 4. juni 2010; online på Internet Archive)
“Mellem den 15. og 24. juni vil ingen skibe til og fra Israel blive losset i svenske havne. Også varer til og fra Israel vil blive blokeret.” Scroll ned.

Globalt raseri mod Israel (Arbejderen, 4. juni 2010; online på Internet Archive)
“Et næsten samlet internationalt samfund kræver, at Israels blokade mod Gaza ophæves. Mange kræver Israel til regnskab efter mordet på aktivister.” Scroll ned.

Demonstration mod Israels drab på nødhjælpsarbejdere (Modkraft.dk, 31/5 2010)
“Der er indkaldt til to demonstration ved Israels ambassade i København mandag den 31. maj. Det sker i protest mod israelske specialtroppers drab på 16 nødhjælpsarbejdere om bord på et skib på vej til Gaza med nødhjælp.”