صلح Pax سلام שלום Pace Hasîtî Barış 和平 Мир Peace Mir Friede Paix
Cultures of Resistance filmmaker Iara Lee was on board the Mavi Marmara and has just released previously unseen footage of the massacre that took place on the ship that she managed to smuggle out. This is a 15-minute clip of an hour-long video which follows the first clip.
Warning: video contains very disturbing images
Voice of reason former US Ambassador Edward Peck interviewed by Free Speech Radio News just before the Rachel Corrie sailed. His eyewitness account of his experience as part of the Gaza convoy that was attacked by the Israeli military is worth a listen. Ambassador Peck served as the former chief of mission in Iraq and as deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan administration. Run-time is just under twelve minutes.
Paul Woodward has a good post (below) on the nine murdered men aboard the Mavi Marmara, building upon Diane Mason’s efforts. These nine confirmed dead collectively leave behind 29 now fatherless children, as well as devastated families. Meanwhile, autopsies reveal that that these murdered Turkish citizens were shot repeatedly and at close range, five of them to the head.
As the Rachel Corrie sails out towards Gaza with Denis Halliday, Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire and many others, also check out the statement from the Irish government. Significantly, there’s emerging evidence that IDF radio communication was fabricated. More glaring discrepancies in the official IDF claims are emerging.
** Please refer to PULSE, my web bookmarks or Twitter feed for updates. While at least nine are confirmed dead, a number of others are still unaccounted for.
THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA HAS BEEN ATTACKED BY ISRAELI MILITARY FORCES. Al Jazeera reports 16 killed. Turkish TV are reporting at least 16 dead and over 60 injured.
You can watch Press TV (who are reporting 20 killed) live here and Al Jazeera English here. Al Jazeera reports:
The Israeli Army Radio said soldiers opened fire “after confronting those on board carrying sharp objects”.
Free Gaza Movement, the organisers of the flotilla, however, said the troops opened fire as soon as they stormed the ships.
When the confirmed death count was still “only” 3:
Live Streaming Turkish TV
** Please also refer to PULSE, my web bookmarks or Twitter feed for updates.
http://twitter.com/freegazaorg
http://www.livestream.com/insaniyardim
http://www.flickr.com/photos/freegaza
Three compelling presentations: Lowkey and Jody McIntyre precede Norman Finkelstein’s talk for the Palestinian Club at Brooklyn College. Lowkey gives a short talk til around the eight minute mark; Jody then gives his presentation til around the 40 minute mark; upon which time Lowkey gives a few spoken word performances. Norman Finkelstein presents at the 48 minute mark, which is overlapped in the second video.
See also Norman Finkelstein’s Gaza’s calm determination, an excerpt from his current book, and Jonathan Cook’s Israel’s Big and Small Apartheids and Barak defies outpost demolition law.
Part One
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A moving, must-see video that first aired on Channel 4 (UK)’s Dispatches on 15 March. BAFTA-winning filmmaker Jezza Neumann follows the lives of three children for over a year. The children are amazing: well-spoken, reflective, resilient, understandably vengeful and fearful, but very endearing. The toll this inhumanity has taken is also clear. NB: If you are using the Internet Explorer (IE) browser and the video does not seem to appear, go to Tools and select Compatibility View. Alternatively you can open Firefox, Safari or Chrome to watch the video; the post is also mirrored at PULSE. You can download the video here (right-click, ‘save link as’).
