Gaza Flotilla

Israel Offers $6 Million To Flotilla Raid Victims

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

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By Jonathon Burch and Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA, May 24 (Reuters) - A Turkish lawyer said on Thursday that Israel had offered to pay $6 m...

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The New Republican Haggadah

Steve Sheffey | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Gaza Flotilla, Iran, Israel, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Goldstone Report, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

There's probably nothing President Obama can do to convince some Republicans that he's pro-Israel. If President Obama split the Sea of Reeds and walked through it dry-shod, they'd accuse him of not being able to swim.

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Israel Drops Case Against Gaza Flotilla Activists

AP | Posted 02.21.2012

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JERUSALEM -- Israel's attorney general has decided not to prosecute Israelis who participated in a Gaza-bound flotilla that was raided a year ago. Th...

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Jailed for Sailing to Gaza, Challenging the Blockade

Medea Benjamin | Posted 01.05.2012

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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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Israel To Deport Gaza Flotilla Activists

AP | Posted 01.05.2012

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JERUSALEM -- Israel has begun deportation procedures for a group of pro-Palestinian activists who tried to breach its naval blockade of the Gaza Strip...

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Exclusive: Video From Gaza Flotilla as Israeli Navy Prepared to Intercept Boats

Democracy Now! | Posted 01.04.2012

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Watch the Democracy Now! exclusive report from the "Freedom Waves to Gaza" flotilla this morning, shortly before the Israeli Navy intercepted the two ...

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New Flotilla Challenges Gaza Blockade

AP | By IAN DEITCH | Posted 01.04.2012

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JERUSALEM -- Israel's navy boarded two small protest boats trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Friday and towed them to an Israeli port ...

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Being Erdogan

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: Turkey, Nato, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey-Israel Relations, Gaza Flotilla, Israel, Erdogan, Ataturk, Ottoman Empire, World News

Prime Minister Erdogan is looking for -- and finding -- levers that can allow Turkey to build and wield the political and economic might commensurate to a strategically located country with a history of near-global hegemony.

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Turkey as the New Norway?

Brent E. Sasley | Posted 11.07.2011

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Without putting too fine a point on it, Turkey has in the last few months been acting like a petulant child that doesn't get its dessert before the meal.

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Jupiter, Turkey, and Israel

Dr. Josef Olmert | Posted 11.02.2011

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The collapse of Turkish-Israeli relations is a sad development and one is left to hope that somehow the last word has not been said yet.

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Turkey Cuts Israeli Ties After Gaza Flotilla Refusal

AP | SUZAN FRASER and MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 11.02.2011

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey expelled Israel's ambassador and cut military ties on Friday over Israel's refusal to apologize for last year's deadly r...

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Foreign Minister Says Israel Will Not Apologize To Turkey Over Flotilla Raid

AP | IAN DEITCH | Posted 10.17.2011

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JERUSALEM — Israel will not apologize to Turkey over a raid on a Gaza-bound protest aid ship last year in which nine Turkish pro-Palestinian act...

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

Mya Guarnieri | Posted 09.25.2011

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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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Israeli Foreign Minister Will Not Quit Over Gaza Flotilla Apology

Posted 09.23.2011

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday he would not quit the coalition government if it decides to apolo...

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Turkish Prime Minister Insists On Israeli Apology

AP | Posted 09.22.2011

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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's prime minister on Saturday ruled out a normalization of ties with Israel unless the Jewish state "officially apologizes" fo...

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Israel 'Not Ready To Apologize' For Gaza Flotilla Deaths

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 09.20.2011

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JERUSALEM — Israel will not apologize for killing nine Turkish activists aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla last year, an Israeli Cabinet minister sai...

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Foreigners Aboard Gaza-Bound Ship Returning Home: Official

AP | Posted 09.19.2011

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JERUSALEM -- An Israeli official says all 15 foreigners aboard an intercepted Gaza-bound ship will return home by the end of the day. Interior Minist...

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Gaza-Bound French Ship Seized By Israeli Navy

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 09.18.2011

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JERUSALEM — Israeli naval commandos on Tuesday seized control of a French ship attempting to break Israel's sea blockade of the Gaza Strip and t...

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By Torpedoing the Gaza Flotilla, Israel Sunk Its Own Ship

Medea Benjamin | Posted 09.11.2011

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Through it all, the Israelis helped us turn a potential non-story into a media blitz that has not ended. The passengers are now returning home to the local public spotlight.

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Pro-Palestinian Air Protest Blocked In Israel

AP | JEREMY LAST | Posted 09.07.2011

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TEL AVIV, Israel — Aided by Facebook, Israel on Friday prevented scores of pro-Palestinian activists from boarding Tel Aviv-bound flights in Eur...

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Start of the Season

Kathy Kelly | Posted 09.06.2011

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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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Israel Braces For Pro-Palestinian Activists' Arrival At Airport

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 09.06.2011

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JERUSALEM — Israel dispatched a beefed-up security force to its main international airport Thursday and asked foreign airlines to prevent blackl...

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Gaza Flotilla 2011: More 'Cat-And-Mouse' Than Crisis

AP | By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 09.06.2011

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ATHENS, Greece -- On a hotel rooftop in Exarchia, a gritty neighborhood known to breed artists and anarchists, a hodgepodge of activists plotted how t...

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Flotilla In, Negotiations Out?

Dr. Josef Olmert | Posted 09.04.2011

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Benjamin Netanyahu should be very careful not to waste the goodwill that was shown towards Israel by refraining from any move towards the Palestinian Authority.

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Gaza-Bound Boat Escapes From Greece

Posted 09.04.2011

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PARIS (AP) — French pro-Palestinian activists say a pleasure craft linked to a flotilla banned from sailing from Greek ports to the Gaza Strip has l...

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