20 Dead after Israel Attacks Gaza Humanitarian Ship in Int'l Waters

At least 20 people are dead and many are injured on the lead ship of the Gaza Humanitarian Aid flotilla after the Israeli military, paid for with US tax dollars, boarded and attacked the unarmed people. Contrary to Israel's lies, obviously prepared in advance, no one attacked these heavily armed thugs; this is a humanitarian vessel with civilians on board, and Israel continued its attack after the white flag was raised, all in international waters. Support this website and protest this outrageous violation of international law by US/Israel as Israel does not exist for 1 second without US tax dollars.

Here are the latest news reports:

Al-Jazeera with live video and blog links:

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/201053133047995359.html

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/05/31/aftermath-israels-attack-gaza-flotilla

Palestine Chronicle

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16003

More Youtube videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB-Mk4bFz-U

Russia Today, with links and video:

http://rt.com/Top_News.html

(They broadcast at 5 a.m. on Cable Channel 32 in San Francisco).

Free Gaza which organized the flotilla has a Twitter:

http://www.freegaza.org/

Gaza Freedom Flotilla

http://gazafreedommarch.org/cms/en/Solidarity.aspx

Ma'an News

http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx

The Israeli Left joins the international protests:

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=288408

International Middle East Media Center:

http://www.imemc.org/article/58818

Palestine News Network

http://english.pnn.ps/

Palestine News Agency

http://english.wafa.ps/

Uprooted Palestinians:

http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2010/

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For more information, see:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

(2006) Oneworld Publications, ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4

(Has full details on the 1948 to present mass murder of boys and men, rape and murder of girls and women and theft of Palestinian land all planned by David Ben-Gurion, first president of Israel, and cohorts, as Ben-Gurion described in his diary quoted in Pappe’s book.)

Israel-Palestine on Record by Howard Friel and Richard Falk

(2007) Verso, ISBN 978-1-84467-109-0 (Contains eyewitness testimony for 2000 to 2006 of Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes and the horrors of daily life in Occupied Palestine due to daily Israeli terrorism, all paid for with billion US tax dollars annually, making Israel the 4th largest military gang in the world).

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/

Zionism in the Age of Dictators by Lenni Brenner at

http://www.marxists.de/middleast/brenner/

The Iron Wall by Lenni Brenner at

http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/

The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman at

http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/

Boycott, Divest, Sanctions Movement against Zionist Israel at

http://bdsmovement.net/

The Israeli Military State starts in childhood at:

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/indoctrinating-israeli-youths-to-be.html

Israel’s nuclear war capacity and history of threatening the former Soviet Union in an excellent article by John Steinbach:

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/policy/israeli-nuclear-policy/steinbach_israeli_program.pdf

51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis edited by Lenni Brenner

(2002) Barricade Books, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56980-235-1

The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black

(1984, 2001) Carroll & Graf, NY, ISBN 0-7867-0841-7

The Third Reich and the Palestine Question by Francis Nicosia

(1985) University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-72731-3

Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse by Sylvain Cypel

(2005, 2006) Other Press, ISBN 13:978-1-5905 1-210-4

(A good early history of the apartheid wall and history and contemporary life of Israel and its relationship to the US as a military base. The lack of separation of church and state is evident as “All Israeli students study the Hebrew Bible in public school for several hours a week, from the elementary grades through high school (knowledge of the Bible is tested on the high school exit examination.)” (p. 177) Superstition and militarism clearly go together This is a sign of an extremely backward society).

A Wall in Palestine by Rene Backman

(2006, 2010) Picador/St. Martin’s Press, NY ISBN 978-0-312-42781-8

(Good maps of the apartheid wall and description of resistance to it; it is clearly a land grab as there are means of going through wall and thus it has nothing to do with security; also describes segregated roads and racist license system).

An Israeli in Palestine by Jeff Halper (an American who moved to Israel in 1973 at age 27, is a professor of anthropology, is the leader of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Campaign against Israel described in Appendix 4). (2008) Pluto Press, ISBN 978-0-7453-2226-1. “There is not even a civil mechanism by which Jewish, Christian, and Muslim citizens of Israel can marry each other since personal status, citizenship, marriage, death, inheritance, is regulated by religious and not civil law.” p. 76

Palestine Inside Out by Saree Makdisi, (2008, 2010) Norton Press, ISBN 978-0-393-33844-7. With a beautiful foreword by Alice Walker, comparing the racist horrors of Zionist Israel to white racism in the USA, Makdisi, a Palestinian-American professor of English literature at UCLA, writes a detailed account of the daily horrors of life in Occupied Palestine. His periodic sections “By the Numbers” offer useful statistics, his maps are plentiful, and his entire book is a ringing indictment of the mental illness that is religion and the anti-women horror of theocratic states. As Americans read it, we must remember that this is all paid for with our tax dollars and supported 100% by every single Democratic and Republican politician at every level of government. It is opposed by all socialist parties and the Green Party.

DVD-Warner Classics: The Ramallah Concert: Knowledge Is The Beginning with West-Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Ramallah Concert program: Mozart Sinfonia, Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, Elgar’s Nimrod from Enigma Variations. Orchestra consists of young Jewish Israelis and Arabs of many countries, including Palestine, plus some Europeans.