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“Let me explain that very briefly. Sometimes, because we deal so much at least which you know so much about, we have to remember how we got here. Remember, it was Ehud Barak who decided to pull all Iraqi troops — I mean, excuse me, all Iraqi — all Israeli troops out of Gaza. He did that back in `06.”
Joe Biden, VP USA
Ariel Sharon’s unilateral disengagement plan, adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank.
Question: What is the connection between the Freedom Flotilla — which was inspected thoroughly by Turkish authorities before heading to sea — and “dozens of tons of weapons destined by Hamas, destined by Iran, for Gaza” and a supposed quest by Iran for a “Mediterranean port a few dozen kilometres from Tel Aviv and from Jerusalem”? Also there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, no shortage of food and no shortage of medical supplies.
Netanyahu even invokes the “flawed” UN Goldstone report in speech
(NY Times) – Israeli officials quickly responded to a legal challenge by reserve officers asking the Supreme Court to hold the prisoners for prosecution. With hundreds of detained activists waiting in Ben-Gurion International Airport to board planes sent by Turkey and Greece to take them home, Israel’s attorney general, Yehuda Weinstein, wrote to the court saying that the decision was based on “clear diplomatic interests touching on the state of Israel’s foreign relations and national security.”
Activists Overpowered First Commandos …
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Al Jazeera had its own camera crews travelling on the Gaza aid convoy, but all of the video they shot has been confiscated by Israeli authorities. There is no word on when – or if – the pictures might be released.
Israel has been releasing its own video – which supports the Israeli version of events, and contradicts the reports of many witnesses.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
