The Freedom Flotilla of six ships and the MV Rachel Corrie had for their passengers more than 600 peace and human rights activists coming from more than 40 countries. They were bringing with them much-needed humanitarian aid such as food, medical supplies, equipment, school materials and prefabricated cement to help rebuild the beleaguered Gaza Strip ever since Israel imposed a blockade when the Has-led government took power in 2007. This blockade has made Gaza the biggest concentration camp which deprived its citizens the basic necessities for a decent living much more for survival.

Israeli’s claim of self-defense in attacking the Freedom Flotilla in international waters is hardly believable and unjustified. It just showed the degree of its arrogance as it tries to show to the world that that it is beyond the reach of the law. It even has the temerity to announce to the world that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza despite the Report of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict led by Justice Richard Goldstone on September 2009. The report presents strong evidence that during the war in Gaza, Israel engaged in war crimes that revealed a pattern of continuous and systematic assault against Palestinian people and land that has very little to do with Israel’s claim of security.

The Freedom Flotilla is an answer of many ordinary peace-loving citizens of the world who organized the ships and contributed to the bulk of humanitarian materials in an attempt to break the siege on Gaza when the world leaders turned a blind eye to the Genocide being committed by Israel. Its attack by Israel should be a challenge to international bodies, like the United Nations through its United Nations Security Council to stand firm and conduct an impartial investigation. Countries of the world should also unite in condemning this atrocities by imposing a Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against israel.

Let the sad fate of those who died in the Flotilla a challenge to the world’s humanitarian, peace and anti-war movements and all other movements involved in the solidarity campaign to steep up our efforts and initiatives. Let us make Palestine our rallying point in the struggle to free all the oppressed peoples of the world.

Justice to the victims of the Freedom Flotilla raid! Justice, Freedom ,Peace and

Dignity to the people of Gaza! We strongly demand, END THE SIEGE ON GAZA !

7th June 2010

Mindanao Peoples’ Peace Movement (MPPM)

Cotabato City, Mindanao, Philippines



Related article from from the STOP the War Coalition Philippines:

http://www.focusweb.org/content/statement-solidarity-stop-war-coalition-philippines

The URL and Israeli propaganda sampled from a search engine is instructive

We are up against a megaphone system of such psychotic points of desperation, reading them is instructive through its frantic attempt to re-fabricate the entire incident and insert a tissue of false associations.

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Max Read | Gawker

8 days ago

Gaza or Bus

[Israel has begun to expel the pro-Palestine activists it rounded up in a Monday raid on a flotilla of boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, currently under an Israeli blockade.

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the really telling item in the above comment is the "rounded up" reference to the humanitarian aid activists and the "expel" action nomenclature constructed towards victims of a kidnapping by piracy. By cold blooded murderers who killed at least nine civilians with no ties what so ever to the desperate accusations of Israeli propaganda.

Nothing about the still missing bodies, unaccounted for.

Or the assassination lists and methodical terrorism directed at the unarmed passengers

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they didn't have all the knives and other items removed like they made the UN Sabra and Shitila refugee camps undergo* before that slaughter; under their occupation, occurred when they killed 20,000 during the 1980s war in Lebanon.

*[ (1982) Massacre of Palestinian civilians by Christian militiamen in two Beirut refugee camps during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The goal of Israel's action was to expel Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanon. To achieve this objective, Israel allied itself with several Lebanese Christian groups, including the Phalange party, who fought the Palestinians during the protracted Lebanese civil war (1975 – 90). Following the U.S.-brokered evacuation of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) fighters from Beirut, Israeli forces under Defense Minister Ariel Sharon allowed Phalange militiamen into the camps, ostensibly to root out further PLO fighters. Estimates of the number of women, children, and elderly who were killed over the next several days ranged from 800 to several thousand. Although no militiamen were ever prosecuted for their participation, Sharon — who an Israeli commission of inquiry later found indirectly responsible through negligence — was condemned in Arab popular opinion as the culprit of the massacre.

For more information on Sabra and Shatila massacres, visit Britannica.com. ]