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Israel Offers $6 Million To Flotilla Raid Victims

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Israel Turkey Lawsuit, Video, Turkey, Gaza Flotilla Raid, Turk Raid Victims, Reuters, Gaza Flotilla, Israel Turkey, Israel, Mavi Marmara, Israel Turkey Relations, World News

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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Why the Crisis Between Turkey and Israel Is Hurting Everyone

Joshua W. Walker | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Turkey, Gaza, Israel, Mavi Marmara, World News

The United Nations' recent report investigating the deaths of nine Turks when Israel stopped a flotilla trying to break a Gaza blockade has brought an end to a suspenseful episode in Turkish-Israeli relations.

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The Long Decline in Turkish-Israeli Relations

Brent E. Sasley | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Akp, Israel, Turkey, Hamas, Mavi Marmara, Middle East, Turkish-Israeli Relations, World News

There is very little to suggest that Turkey and Israel have enough in common at this point to move beyond the damage. The Turkish insistence on providing military escorts to ships sailing to Gaza all but guarantees a direct clash with the Israeli navy.

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Turkey Cuts Israeli Ties After Gaza Flotilla Refusal

AP | SUZAN FRASER and MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu, Gaza Flotilla Raid, Gaza Flotilla, Israel, Mavi Marmara, World News

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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Israel 'Not Ready To Apologize' For Gaza Flotilla Deaths

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Gaza Flotilla 2010, Gaza Flotilla, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Moshe Yaalon, Israel, Gaza, Mavi Marmara, World News

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

AP | By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Greece, Athens, Gaza Flotilla, Gaza Flotilla 2011, Israel, Mavi Marmara, World News

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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Is Turkish-Israeli Reconciliation Imminent?

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Erdogan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Turkey, Israel, Mavi Marmara, Middle East Peace Process, World News

As the Arab world takes to the streets in search of democracy, the two established democratic nations of the region now have a unique opportunity to work together to serve as pillars of stability.

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Gaza-Bound Boats Barred From Leaving Greek Ports

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Greek Ports, Turkey, Gaza Strip, Greece, Athens, Audacity of Hope, Gaza Flotilla, Mavi Marmara, World News

ATHENS, Greece — American protesters on a boat bound for the Gaza Strip were escorted back to shore Friday, as Greece announced it was banning v...

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Don't Look Away -- The Siege of Gaza Must End

Kathy Kelly | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: International Flotilla, Mavi Marmara, Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, Gaza Siege, Israeli Blockade, USA Boat to Gaza, Israeli-Palestiian Conflict, Israel, Palestine, Rafah, World News

The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, amounting to what is internationally recognized as an apartheid system, could end in peace, with Israel abandoning paranoia and racial violence to allow peace.

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Gaza Flotilla Twice The Size Of Last Year's In The Works

AP | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Gaza Flotilla, Palestine, Gaza, Mavi Marmara, Flotilla Raid, World News

ISTANBUL -- Pro-Palestinian activists say a planned convoy of aid ships to the Gaza Strip will be twice as big as a similar flotilla that was raided a...

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World Story Of The Year: Which Do You Choose?

Posted 05.25.2011

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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Israel Flotilla Raid Violated International Law, UN Council Says

AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 05.25.2011

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GENEVA — A report by three U.N.-appointed human rights experts Wednesday said that Israeli forces violated international law when they raided a Gaza...

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Anna Baltzer: Palestinians "come second" at peace talks

Christian Avard | Posted 05.25.2011

A visit to the occupied territories of Palestine can change one's perspectives forever. Such was the case of Anna Baltzer. Baltzer is a Jewish-America...

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British PM and Turkey: Rue, Britannia!

David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, England, David Cameron, Erdogan, Ihh, Hamas, Israel, Mavi Marmara, World News, World News

British Prime Minister David Cameron traveled to Turkey last week "to establish a new partnership between Britain and Turkey," he stated in an Ankara ...

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Slandering the Good Guys: Some Basic Facts About IHH

Iara Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaza Flotilla, Israel, Gaza, Mavi Marmara, Turkish Ngo, Ihh, World News

Given that IHH is among the most courageous humanitarian NGOs in the world, our politicians should perhaps be thanking them, rather than trying to tarnish their stellar reputation.

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The Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See: Smuggled Footage From the Flotilla Attack

Iara Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Flotilla, Gaza Blockade, Israel, Gaza, Mavi Marmara, Video, World News

As a passenger of the Mavi Marmara, I and others were able to smuggle some footage off the ship.

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A Call for Ehud Barak to Resign. Forever.

Dana Agmon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Lebanon, Defense, Governance, Middle East, Israel-Mavi-Marmara, Ehud Barak, Israeli Government, Israel Labor Party, Israel, Resignation, Mavi Marmara, Minister of Defense, World News

Enough is enough. You have proven incapable in every political post you held. It is time to be the man you always claimed to be. And the only way to be that man is to tender your resignation.

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Is it Time to Rethink Human Rights?

Saad Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mavi Marmara, Gaza-Freedom-Flotilla, Israel Raid, Turkey Israel Relations, Pakistan Human Rights, Baloch, Egypt Human Rights, Scandanavia, Turkey, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Pakistan, Malasia, World News

What is the point of campaigning for human rights when there are serious human rights violations in your own backyard?

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The Hezbo(ti)lla

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaza Flotilla, Hezbollah, Iran, Hamas, Hassan Nasrallah, Israel, Mavi Marmara, Bashar Al-Assad, Turkey Gaza, World News

Amidst all this jockeying, there is another player, under-analyzed since the initial flotilla furore, but nonetheless critical to its outcome: the Lebanese terrorist movement, Hezbollah.

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Gaza Blockade: Unarmed Protest A Palestinian Approach? (New York Review)

The New York Review of Books | Eyal Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Intifada, Nonviolence, Gaza, Martin Luther King, Blockade, Civil Rights, Unarmed Protest, Nyr, Gandhi, New York Review of Books, Barack Obama, Mavi Marmara, Books News

Four days after Israeli commandos stormed a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip, killing nine passengers and igniting an international ...

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Palestinian Youth Respond to Israel's Attacks

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Amnesty International, Palestine, Israel, Oxfam, Gaza, Mavi Marmara, World News

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By Nora Barrows-Friedman "How fast everyt...

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Challenger I Passengers: Israeli Commandos Shot First

Mya Guarnieri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Flotilla, Gaza, Gaza Flotilla, Israel, Mavi Marmara, Flotilla Raid, World News, World News

The IDF's footage of the Mavi Marmara raid does not include the crucial moments prior to the soldiers' boarding that would allow viewers to determine if the activists were behaving in self-defense.

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No Matter What the Pressure Brought to Bear on It, Israel Should Never Give Up Its Right of Self-Defense

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaza Flotilla, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Gaza Blockade, IHH, Mavi Marmara, Free Gaza Movement, New York News

Israel has to be certain that no jihadists and suicide bombers enter Gaza to join the terrorists already there. Supporters of terrorism have already tried to deliver by ship to Gaza large amounts of war material.

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Photos Of Beaten Israeli Commandos Released By Turkey

Haaretz.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli, Turkey, Flotilla, Flotilla Raid, Flotilla Attack, Mavi Marmara, Censored Photos, Israeli Military @Y:World, World News

Turkey's highest circulating newspaper Hurriyet on Sunday released photos of Israeli navy commandos who had been embroiled in the clash aboard the Gaz...

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AFTER THE MASSACRE: The Global Impact of the Gaza Flotilla Crisis

Phyllis Bennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Palestine, U.S., Flotilla, Gaza, Blockade, Mavi Marmara, Home News

AMSTERDAM-- Israeli commandoes murdered nine humanitarian aid workers in international waters. Nine were Turkish citizens; one a U.S. citizen. They w...

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