Israel to stop flotilla ‘without physical contact’

by on June 28, 2011 5
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The Real News has produced an excellent, thorough report including interviews with Joseph Dana,  Ray McGovern, Gerry MacLochlainn from the Irish Boat, IDF press spokesperson and Vice Admiral Eliezer Merom, commander of the Israeli Navy (@5:36, don't miss his bloviations), covering Israel's threat to journalists and the flotilla media battle...more later


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Annie Robbins is Editor at Large for Mondoweiss, a mother, a human rights activist and a ceramic artist. She lives in the SF bay area. Follow her on Twitter @anniefofani
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  1. annie says:
    June 28, 2011 at 10:02 am

    don’t miss this report. good for real news for such excellent coverage.

    they ROCK!

    • Sumud says:
      June 29, 2011 at 4:55 am

      Excellent report but they need to get their fact checking sorted: nine people were killed by the IDF during last year’s flotilla raid, not six.

      Interesting to hear the IDF spokeswoman say that they won’t distinguish between activists and journalists. They did the same during last year’s raid. So much for press freedom in the “only democracy in the middle east”.

  2. Pixel says:
    June 28, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    “Unknown parties” will torpedo the flotilla providing Israel with deniability.

  3. Chu says:
    June 28, 2011 at 1:19 pm

    all they do is blame Hamas? What has the Hamas done lately?
    Last I remember, Israel army killed 1400 people in Gaza, the majority unarmed civilians. Hamas couldn’t retaliate, since they have no tanks, airforce, navy. Makeshift rockets do not compare to white phosphorus launched from helicopters, and targeting infastructure like bread factories is also appalling. Not to forget a polluted water system, that Israel prevents them from repairing – as a result of the blockade.

    The world is realizing who the real terrorists are with events like this. But the corrupt US, the biggest military in the world, has been co-opted by Zionists for decades. Posing as moral people, but yet some of us know a different picture. What do we do?

  4. Mndwss says:
    June 28, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    Israel to stop flotilla ‘without physical contact’ ?

    Do they have a new seacret weapon?

    Maybe they have IDF divers drilling holes to release gas into in the boats?

    A gas with a freindly name?

    Maybe TGTKAPCB?

    (The Gas That Kills And Preserves Cadavers BeautifullY).