More updates on the aftermath of the Freedom Flotilla massacre:

Video Shows Israeli Commando Executing Turkish-American Aid Student

The Israeli military attempted to confiscate and erase the photographic
and video evidence of its brutal asault on the Mavi Marmara ...The most
damaging is a film of an Israeli soldier kicking an American citizen while
the latter is on the ground,and then executing him.

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Appeal to Parliamentarians Worldwide for MK Haneen Zoubi

MK Haneen Zoubi (BALAD) faces death threats as the Israeli Knesset House
Committee votes to revoke her Parliamentary privileges for participating
in the Gaza-bound humanitarian aid Flotilla and protesting against the
blockade. Take Action!

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Averting Another Gaza
by BERNARD KOUCHNER, FRANCO FRATTINI, and MIGUEL ANGEL MORATINOS
The foreign ministers, respectively, of France, Italy and Spain

The whole world was shocked by the tragic consequences of the Israeli
military operation conducted in international waters against the “Peace
Flotilla” convoy of ships. The human cost is unacceptable. Nothing can
justify the use of such violence, and our countries immediately condemned
it.

Following these dramatic events, the time must come for analysis and
reflection on the root reasons of the tragedy. The cause of the boarding
of the Mavi Marmara can be summarized in a single word, one that is very
familiar to us: Gaza.

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U.S. Congress Defends Israeli Attack
by Stephen Zunes

...To rationalize what virtually the entire international legal community
recognizes as an act of war, congressional Democrats have engaged in a
series of falsifications and radical reinterpretations of international
law. ...[M]any Democrats who have engaged in these right-wing attacks on
human rights and international law consider themselves "progressive."
...Peace and human rights activists should raise an outcry in response to
the dangerously intemperate and inaccurate statements from congressional
Democrats and then deny support for the re-election of any member of
Congress who continues to support this latest Israeli atrocity.

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