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Cuban Exile Groups Dabbling in Risky Business

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ and GISELA SOLOMON | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: International Human Rights Day, U.S. Coast Guard, Cuban Exiles, Flotilla, Ramon Saul Sanchez, Fireworks, Havana, Miami News

MIAMI — A coalition of Cuban exile groups said Wednesday their plans to anchor a small flotilla off the coast of Havana and launch fireworks to ...

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Jailed for Sailing to Gaza, Challenging the Blockade

Medea Benjamin | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Flotilla, Flotilla, Gaza, Israel, Gaza-Freedom-Flotilla, World News
Medea Benjamin

The people of Gaza can't wait for political leaders to decide it's in their interest to negotiate, so it's up to us -- as civil society -- to step up the pressure. That's what these waves of boats are doing.

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Turkish Foreign Policy: What Would Ataturk Do?

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: France, Syria, Egypt, Erdogan, Flotilla, Iran, Turkey, Germany, Nato, Netnyahu, Ataturk, Islamists, European Union, Iraq, Palestinians, Turkey Israel, Turkish Foreign Policy, Ankara, World News
Leon T. Hadar

The notion that Erdogan and the AKP are pursuing a foreign policy based on an Islamist agenda reflects a common fallacy, that ideological principles are the main driving force behind the foreign policy of Turkey.

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Israel's Blockade of Gaza: A Twenty-year-old Injustice

Mya Guarnieri | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Gaza Flotilla, Flotilla, Hamas, Gaza Strip, Israel, Israeli Blockade, World News
Mya Guarnieri

A tremendous majority of those talking about the Gaza Strip blockade use 2007 as the start-date, unintentionally lending legitimacy to Israel's cause and effect explanation, an argument that pegs the closure to political events.

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Floating Some Ideas for the Flotilla Folk

David Harris | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Egypt, Syria, Flotilla, Israel, Hamas, Gaza, Gaze Flotilla, Israel Flotilla, Gaza Israel, Peace Flotilla, Flotilla Peace, Gaza Israel Flotilla, World News
David Harris

Now don't bet the family farm that the flotilla folk will show up anytime soon in Egypt, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or anywhere else outside Gaza. The reason? Simple and obvious. If it doesn't have an Israeli connection, they're just not interested.

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Start of the Season

Kathy Kelly | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Guernica, Spanish, Spain, Flotilla, Greece, Gaza, Greek, Fasting, Gaza Flotilla, Israel, World News
Kathy Kelly

I'm here as an activist passenger on the United States flotilla boat, blocked by the Greek government's decision. Our guiding question asks to what extent we can focus world attention on the plight of Palestinians in Gaza.

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An Open Letter to U.S. Senator Mark Kirk

Kathy Kelly | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Senator Mark Kirk, Israel, Gaza, Gaza Flotilla, Flotilla, Operation Cast Lead, Gaza Blockade, Audacity of Hope, World News
Kathy Kelly

Senator Kirk, we are your constituents. It's not too late for you to acknowledge that your earlier call for military action against us jeopardizes our safety and to reverse your claim which insinuates that we are dangerous people.

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Conflict Resolution Commandos: A Response to the Flotilla

Roi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Conflict Resolution Commandos, Turkey, Flotilla, Gaza, Peace, Roi Ben-Yehuda, Palestine, Israel, Military, Idf, Non-Violence, Andrea Bartoli, World News
Roi Ben-Yehuda

Imagine back in 2010 if instead of masked men with guns, trained for intense warfare at sea, boarding a ship in the dead of night, the IDF had dispatched an elite unit of conflict resolution specialists. Could the tragedy at sea been averted?

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Gaza Flotilla Activists Seeking 'Blood,' Says Israeli Foreign Minister

Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Strip, Flotilla, Avigdor Lieberman, Gaza Flotilla, Hamas Islamists, Israel, World News

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday participants in an aid flotilla planning to challenge an Israeli ...

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Staying Human: Preparing to Sail to Gaza

Kathy Kelly | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Israel, Afghanistan, Flotilla, Gaza, Gaza-Freedom-Flotilla, Greece, Afghanistan War, Impact News
Kathy Kelly

We have to make sacrifices to stop the crimes that are ultimately being committed in our names. In different ways, we have to risk the consequences of being where we need to be when we need to be there.

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Turkish Action Movie Called Anti-Semitic

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Flotilla, Turkey, Valley of the Wolves: Palestine, Turkish Movie, Flotilla Raid, Valley of the Wolves, Mavi Mamara, World News

A new Turkish action movie based on last summer's Israeli commando raid on a Gaza aid ship is generating controversy for its violent content, with som...

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World Story Of The Year: Which Do You Choose?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wikileaks, Flotilla, Turkey, Pakistan, Cablegate, World Story of the Year, Anna Chapman, Nobel Peace Prize, Haiti, Chile Miners, San Jose Mine, Liu Xiaobo, Iran, 2010, Mavi Marmara, Russian Spies, Gaza Flotilla, Espionage, Slidepollajax, Julian Assange, 21st Century, Haiti Earthquake, 2010 Stories, Iran Stoning Woman, World News

Haiti's devastating earthquake kicked off what was to be a truly turbulent year in global news. But the last year of the first decade of the 21st cen...

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What You Get for Not Rocketing Israel

Sam Sedaei | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Settlements, Flotilla, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hamas, Israel, Gaza, Democracy, World News
Sam Sedaei

Are Israel's actions truly a reaction to hostilities against its existence and security? Let's look at this claim in the context of the ongoing negotiations between the Palestinian Fattah Movement and Iran.

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UN Fact-Finding Mission: Israeli Killing Of US Citizen Was "Execution"

Truth-Out | Gareth Porter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaza Flotilla, Furkan Dogan, Flotilla, Israel, Flotilla Raid, World News

Originally published in Truth-out By Gareth Porter The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner ...

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Empty Promises: Obama Takes His Middle East Peace Plan to the UN

Phyllis Bennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Law, Obama, Flotilla, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Middle East Peace Process, United Nations, World News
Phyllis Bennis

"International law is not an empty promise" - except for Palestinians President Obama's General Assembly speech called on the international community...

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A Flotilla for Gilad Shalit

David Suissa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Idf, Jerusalem, Flotilla, Red Cross, Ariel and Sarah Wiendling, Gilad Shalit, President Obama, World News
David Suissa

Jewish groups should organize an international flotilla for Gilad Shalit that should land in Gaza and ask for a Red Cross visit for the Jewish prisoner.

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Israel to Let the UN in...or Not?

Phyllis Bennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Flotilla, Goldstone Report, United Nations, Alvaro Uribe, Israel, Colombia, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Accountability, Ban Ki-Moon, World News
Phyllis Bennis

The UN's flotilla investigation may well be "unprecedented." But don't get too excited yet. This particular "international" and "UN-backed" team actually reflects Israel's own US-backed influence at the UN.

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Flotilla Raid: Details Emerge Of Bloodshed Aboard Gaza-Bound Ship

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Flotilla, Gaza Blockade, Gaza, Israel Raid, Gaza Activists, Israel, Israeli Flotilla Raid, Flotilla Raid, World News

JERUSALEM — At 4:30 a.m. from her perch on the bridge of a passenger ship in the Mediterranean Sea, Hanin Zoabi saw the first lights of fast-app...

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Israeli Military Finds Flotilla Killings Justified

AP | IAN DEITCH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel-Army, Flotilla, Gaza, Israel Gaza Raid, Israel, Gaza Flotilla Raid, World News

TEL AVIV, Israel — Flawed intelligence-gathering and planning led to Israel's botched and deadly raid on a Gaza-bound protest flotilla, with sec...

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Israeli Victimhood: A Threat to the Jewish State

Mya Guarnieri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, West Bank, Gaza Blockade, Gaza Strip, Flotilla, Gaza, Gaza Siege, Israel, Palestine, Idf, Operation Cast Lead, World News
Mya Guarnieri

The headline excited me. "Analysis: Trying one soldier for Gaza war crime doesn't solve root of problem," it read. Finally, a discussion of the Isra...

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What To Do When You Get Screwed By the Refs

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, World-Cup-Bad-Call, US Soccer, Turkey, Flotilla, World Cup 2010, Terrorism, United Nations, Gaza Flotilla, Armando Galarraga, Aipac, Sports, J Street, Soccer, Israel, Politics News
Larry Gellman

The issue here is not about right and wrong or fair and unfair. It is about smart and productive versus one-sided and self-defeating.

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Erdogan: Fake Friend of Palestinians

Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Foreign Aid, Islam, Turkey, Flotilla, Armenians, Blockade, Kurdistan, Ankara, United States, Iraq, Cyprus, Armenian Genocide, China, Karabagh, Palestinians, Ten Commandments, Tel Aviv, Erdogan, Iran, Nato, Gaza, Human Rights, Armenia, Arab, Assyrians, Greeks, Kurds, Israel, Alevis, World News
Harut Sassounian

In the past week the world witnessed an amazing performance by a government leader that even the most accomplished Hollywood actor could not match! T...

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Fair and Balanced ... on Public Radio?

Andy Thayer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Flotilla, Gaza, Free Gaza Movement, Israel, Free Gaza Flotilla, Blair, Palestinians, Paalestine, Chicago News
Andy Thayer

I just listened to Chicago Public Radio -- not Fox News -- run its top of the hour news capsule, followed by its syndicated BBC Newshour.

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The Day US Jewish Groups Went Too Far With the Word "Terrorist"

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Flotilla, Rachel Corrie, Gaza, American Jewish Committee, Virgin Mary, Terrorist, Palestine, Israel, Hezbollah. AJC, Jewish-Americans, Samar Hajj, World News, Mariam, World News
Sharmine Narwani

Israel and its American supporters will do anything to prop up their myths. Even calling a bunch of really amazing ladies "terrorists" to paint them in a nasty light.

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Retire Ari Fleischer! The Hypocrisy, Double Standards & Dishonesty Behind Helen Thomas's Retirement

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Huckabee Helen Thomas, Helen Thomas Israel, Middle East, Palestinians, Ari Fleischer, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sarah Palin Israel, Likud, Arabs, Mike Huckabee, Don Imus, Fire Helen Thomas, Slidepollajax, Sarah Palin Helen Thomas, Auschwitz, Mike Huckabee Israel, Lanny Davis Helen Thomas, Helen Thomas Ari Fleischer, Lanny Davis, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Chuck Schumer, Israeli Settlements, Flotilla, Holocaust, Settlers, Double Standard, Helen Thomas Palestine, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Twitter, Muslim, Iraq, Helen Thomas, Media News
Katie Halper

More people seemed more upset over Helen Thomas's gaffe than they were over the killing of nine people on board a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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