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By Simon Schama

Historians will tell you there is often a time-lag between the onset of economic disaster and the accumulation of social fury. In act one, the shock of a crisis initially triggers fearful disorientation; the rush for political saviours; instinctive responses of self-protection, but not the organised mobilisation of outrage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25616.htm



A Great Global Shift of Power?

"The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination"

By Noam Chomsky

There are poignant studies of the indignation and the rage of those who have been cast aside as the state-corporate programs of financialization and deindustrialization have closed plants and destroyed families and communities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25618.htm



British survivor of Gaza flotilla raid: 'Israelis ignored SOS calls'

Sarah Colborne said pleas for aid were dismissed by the troops who fired rounds at the activists and handcuffed medical staff.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/03/british-survivor-gaza-flotilla



Turkey will "never forgive" Israel

The Turkish president has said that Israel's military raid on civilian aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip has caused "irreparable" damage to his country's relations with Israel, and will "never" be forgiven.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/06/20106312530449379.html



Turkish Premier: "Israel Tries To Justify Itself By Exploiting Anti-Semitism"

"After recent developments, everyone has seen the fact that Israeli government's hostile attitude terrorizing the region, posed a serious threat against peace and stability in the region."

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=352416



Turkey recalls ambassador from Israel

Turkey's ambassador to Israel Oguz Celikkol returned home Thursday morning.
http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=123620



S Africa recalls Israel ambassador

South Africa has recalled its ambassador to Israel amid continuing diplomatic anger over Israel's deadly attack on humanitarian aid ships bound for Gaza.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/201063132526897233.html



Politicians from Both US Parties Rally Behind Israel Following Raid

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich "The U.S., through the United Nations relief organization, has been funding food and shelter for the people of Gaza for 60 years now. There was no humanitarian crisis".

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20006501-503544.html



Whoever started the violence, the Israelis did all the killing

It is Israel's tragedy that too many of its people now believe permanent war is better than peace.

http://tinyurl.com/2efvo5t



IDF Released Several Faked Photos - How Can They Be Trusted in ANY Investigation?
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/52394



Israelis Subdued Captain by Pointing Gun at a Child

By Layelle Saad

"It was hell on the sea. I saw Israeli soldiers killing activists in cold blood and then walking on their bodies."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25621.htm



Doubts Grow Over Israel's Value as U.S. Ally

By Jim Lobe

"It is time Israel realised that it has obligations to the United States, as well as the United States to Israel, and that it (has to) become far more careful about the extent to which it test(s) the limits of U.S. patience and exploits the support of Americans Jews".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25619.htm


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Lift the Siege
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan138.html

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This says it all

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

06/04/10

An American is killed as heavilty armed soldiers of a foreign nation board a ship in international waters, firing live ammunition at the passengers as they rappel onto the deck. Among those passengers: a former US ambassador, a former US colonel and Pentagon official, several members of the European parliament, a member of the Israeli Knesset, and members of parliament from several Arab countries. Imagine if Iran had done this. Washington would have reverberated with the sound of thunder emanating from the White House, and the attack fleet would already be steaming toward the Gulf, taking up position. That the culprit was Israel, however, puts a whole different face on the matter, at least as far as our government is concerned: they’re content to let the Israelis ‘investigate,’ and let the matter drop...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/06/03/this-says-it-all/



The Israeli flotilla attack: Victimhood, aggression and tribalism

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

06/03/10

One can express all sorts of outrage over the Obama administration’s depressingly predictable defense of the Israelis … but ultimately, on some level, wouldn’t it have been even more indefensible — or at least oozingly hypocritical — if the U.S. had condemned Israel? After all, what did Israel do in this case that the U.S. hasn’t routinely done and continues to do? … we’re slaughtering an ‘amazing number’ of innocent people at checkpoints in Afghanistan. We’re routinely killing civilians in all sorts of imaginative ways in countless countries, including with drone strikes which a U.N. official just concluded are illegal. We’re even targeting our own citizens for due-process-free assassination. We’ve been arming Israel and feeding them billions of dollars in aid and protecting them diplomatically as they (and we) have been doing things like this for decades. What’s the Obama administration supposed to say about what Israel did: we condemn the killing of unarmed civilians? We decry these violations of international law? Even by typical standards of government hypocrisy, who in the U.S. Government could possibly say any of that with a straight face?

http://tinyurl.com/2944c5k



Operation Make The World Hate Us

The New Republic
by Leon Wieseltier

06/03/10

Israel does not need enemies: it has itself. Or more precisely: it has its government. The Netanyahu-Barak government has somehow found a way to lose the moral high ground, the all-important war for symbols and meanings, to Hamas. That is quite an accomplishment. Operation Make the World Hate Us, it might have been called...

http://tinyurl.com/26yf2jb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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International investigation into the raid
http://www.avaaz.org/en/gaza_flotilla_8/?cl=600760039&v=6447



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