Israel intercepts Swedish Gaza flotilla

[2007 5,291]

yeah sure   

 

sure they get kicked out. Because Israel was established. But what have the Jews in Yemen or Iraq to do with it?  Nothing except for being Jewish. And that,my friend, is anti-semitism and can't be justified.

Yemen? 

You mean by the houthis (which are literally attacking everyone who's not houthis)? Don't try to make it seem as the society is abusing them there. 

[lego 44,165]

Hold up tho. Isn't the bottomline that they engaged in international waters?

Yep.

[MonsterOfSpain 8,331]

What's Ana Miranda doing there omg  

[Melech 9,900]

Jewish supremacy? I know someone who said that in Germany too and ended killing 6 million of us. 

 

Yemen? 

You mean by the houthis (which are literally attacking everyone who's not houthis)? Don't try to make it seem as the society is abusing them there. 

Muslim countries are one of the most dangerous for Jews. (And other minorities) 

[MonsterMum 2,532]

Yep.

Well sadly, it's not the first time this happened.

It makes no sense either "they could carry weapons".

It's like saying Germany charing a Dutch boat in international waters is just for the safety of Germany as if they would expect a David vs Goliath situation

 

[Dolev 867]

"and Israel is to blame for this unfortunate because...?"

You were first mockingly denying that it's possible and now you are asking this ridiculous question and deep down you know very well the answer. 

Blind nationalism and jewish supremacy is preventing you to see the truth, what the rest of the world sees.

 

Miko Peled is not anti-semitic, none of you ever listen to what he has to say.

Denying? Where? I actually thought you'd bring a better argument :emma: smh @ at the "poor palestinian babies" like we live in Alaska and they have no electricity. Why doesn't Hamas put money into building hospitals and providing those poor babies with better facilities? Why would Hamas rather invest money in terror-tunnels instead? Ask yourself.

Stop repeating these "jewish supremacy" bs. I said I don't support Israel's control over the West Bank.

Wasn׳t it you who called Briggite Gabriel a self-hating Arab? 

[lego 44,165]

Denying? Where? I actually thought you'd bring a better argument smh @ at the "poor palestinian babies" like we live in Alaska and they have no electricity. Why doesn't Hamas put money into building hospitals and providing those poor babies with better facilities? Why would Hamas rather invest money in terror-tunnels instead? Ask yourself.

Stop repeating these "jewish supremacy" bs. I said I don't support Israel's control over the West Bank.

Wasn׳t it you who called Briggite Gabriel a self-hating Arab? 

Don't even try.

Your mocking post says everything. You don't have to live in Alaska to die from cold. You and the one who liked your post are so quick to pull antisemitism card, while you joke about palestinian sufferings and deaths. To build hospitals? Which you bomb to ground every 3 years? 

The only power plant was bombed and electricity's cut all the time, thanks to Israel.

Go to live there for a month and then say how there is no blockade and how they have everything.

You are comparing peace activist with a woman who calls for nuking the Arab world?

 

[Dolev 867]

Well sadly, it's not the first time this happened.

It makes no sense either "they could carry weapons".

It's like saying Germany charing a Dutch boat in international waters is just for the safety of Germany as if they would expect a David vs Goliath situation

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karine_A_Affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Full_Disclosure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Affair

[Dolev 867]

Don't even try.

Your mocking post says everything. You don't have to live in Alaska to die from cold. You and the one who liked your post are so quick to pull antisemitism card, while you joke about palestinian sufferings and deaths. To build hospitals? Which you bomb to ground every 3 years? 

The only power plant was bombed and electricity's cut all the time, thanks to Israel.

Go to live there for a month and then say how there is no blockade and how they have everything.

You are comparing peace activist with a woman who calls for nuking the Arab world?

 

Oh yes we're bombing hospitals for fun What's more enjoyable then seeing people suffering?

grow up and stop wording my mouth or trying to make me look like some religious lunatic. You're no better then anyone dear. You're constantly ignoring the root of the problem and blaming Israel for everything possible.

I don't wanna live there. Hamas will probably kill me for being both Israeli & gay, but thanks for inviting. Anyway I guess you lived there for a month... so please share with us your authentic experience. :)

and no, I actually compared him with the guy in this trailer

but I used Briggite as an example of how you're fine with Israeli people with different opinions to support your narrative while calling Arab who support Israel self-hating. 

[lego 44,165]

A Jewish reporter in Gaza responds to Jane Eisner

"Selfie with the greatest threat to Israel" -- Dan Cohen with kids in Gaza. (Photo: Dan Cohen via Twitter)

 

 

Today, Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the of The Jewish Daily Forward wrote a piece called “Why the Forward Sent a Brave Reporter to Gaza,” in which she described the decision to send their Middle East correspondent, Naomi Zeveloff, to Gaza for a three day reporting trip. She writes that the decision to send Zeveloff, who is Jewish, was “mulled over for many months” and required “complex planning.”

 

Eisner’s assumption is that Gaza is a dangerous place for a Jewish journalist to visit, even for a couple of interviews on a subject as non-controversial as psychological trauma. This viewpoint is shared by Eisner’s colleague at the Forward, JJ Goldberg, who put it into blunt terms last summer while debating The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah on Democracy Now!, claiming “I’d be shot” upon stepping foot into Gaza. Ironically, Goldberg’s claim is a succinct description of Israel’s “buffer zone” policy, in which any Palestinian who walks within a loosely-interpreted 300 meters of the border is shot by an Israeli soldier or remote-control machine gun.

 

 

As a journalist who happens to be Jewish and having spent almost four months on the ground in Gaza including the last weeks of the war last summer, it is clear to me that Eisner knows nothing of reality on the ground in Gaza.  More than anything else, Eisner’s hysteria over sending Zeveloff to a place where journalists – Jewish and gentile — make regular visits, exposes her anti-Palestinian racism.

 

Eisner wrote about a rocket launch Zeveloff heard while she sat in a beachside hotel as “a frightening introduction to everyday life in Gaza.” Zeveloff featured a quote from an interviewee saying the rocket is the “soundtrack” to Gaza.

 

Since the final ceasefire last summer, however, rockets have been few and far between. If there is a soundtrack to Gaza, it is the incessant hum of drones and roar of F16s punctuated by Israeli gunfire and the laughter of children.

 

 

This is not to say there is no element of danger in Gaza. I can recall several moments when I was fearful. However, these instances were results of Israeli violence. For instance, in mid-May, I attended a Nakba Day demonstration where unarmed Palestinian protesters marched towards the Nahal Oz border crossing and Israeli soldiers immediately shot three people in the legs just a few meters away from me (as JJ Goldberg projected). I spent many days walking around on ruins on homes, fully aware of the possibility of detonation of an Israeli ordnance buried under the rubble. I went into the buffer zone, knowing that the only thing protecting me was the soldier tasked with choosing who to shoot recognizing that I am not Palestinian.

 

But the danger from Israeli violence doesn’t end in the Gaza Strip. Last year I was used as a human shield by Israeli soldiers while photographing in Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp, and that night was held at gunpoint by Israeli soldiers who then threw a flash grenade as they released me. I’ve been repeatedly threatened and spit on at right-wing Israeli demonstrations in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

 

Eisner’s anti-Palestinian racism reinforces the propaganda of the Israeli government and groups like the Anti-Defamation League, who published a survey claiming the Gaza Strip and West Bank are the world’s epicenter of anti-Semitism — a study so deeply flawed that the Forward itself published a short critique of it.

 

In my experience, if Palestinians in Gaza pose a threat to the health of professional journalists who happen to be Jewish, it’s only by offering too much food and sweets.

 

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/06/jewish-reporter-responds

 

[MonsterMum 2,532]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karine_A_Affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Full_Disclosure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Affair

Liberian Flagged

Iranian

Palestinian in again international waters (thanks for proving the point here about it not being the first time that Israel interfered in international waters)

Now the Marianne of the Freedom Flottila:

The fishing trawler Marianne of Gothenburg, a rebuilt trawler loaded with medical equipment and solar panels, was boarded in international waters and is Swedish flagged.

”Our voyage is a natural, brotherly action; our objective is humanitarian; our basis lies in international law; and our method is non-violence."
 

https://shiptogaza.se/en

[Melech 9,900]

A Jewish reporter in Gaza responds to Jane Eisner

"Selfie with the greatest threat to Israel" -- Dan Cohen with kids in Gaza. (Photo: Dan Cohen via Twitter)

 

 

Today, Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the of The Jewish Daily Forward wrote a piece called “Why the Forward Sent a Brave Reporter to Gaza,” in which she described the decision to send their Middle East correspondent, Naomi Zeveloff, to Gaza for a three day reporting trip. She writes that the decision to send Zeveloff, who is Jewish, was “mulled over for many months” and required “complex planning.”

 

Eisner’s assumption is that Gaza is a dangerous place for a Jewish journalist to visit, even for a couple of interviews on a subject as non-controversial as psychological trauma. This viewpoint is shared by Eisner’s colleague at the Forward, JJ Goldberg, who put it into blunt terms last summer while debating The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah on Democracy Now!, claiming “I’d be shot” upon stepping foot into Gaza. Ironically, Goldberg’s claim is a succinct description of Israel’s “buffer zone” policy, in which any Palestinian who walks within a loosely-interpreted 300 meters of the border is shot by an Israeli soldier or remote-control machine gun.

 

 

As a journalist who happens to be Jewish and having spent almost four months on the ground in Gaza including the last weeks of the war last summer, it is clear to me that Eisner knows nothing of reality on the ground in Gaza.  More than anything else, Eisner’s hysteria over sending Zeveloff to a place where journalists – Jewish and gentile — make regular visits, exposes her anti-Palestinian racism.

 

Eisner wrote about a rocket launch Zeveloff heard while she sat in a beachside hotel as “a frightening introduction to everyday life in Gaza.” Zeveloff featured a quote from an interviewee saying the rocket is the “soundtrack” to Gaza.

 

Since the final ceasefire last summer, however, rockets have been few and far between. If there is a soundtrack to Gaza, it is the incessant hum of drones and roar of F16s punctuated by Israeli gunfire and the laughter of children.

 

 

This is not to say there is no element of danger in Gaza. I can recall several moments when I was fearful. However, these instances were results of Israeli violence. For instance, in mid-May, I attended a Nakba Day demonstration where unarmed Palestinian protesters marched towards the Nahal Oz border crossing and Israeli soldiers immediately shot three people in the legs just a few meters away from me (as JJ Goldberg projected). I spent many days walking around on ruins on homes, fully aware of the possibility of detonation of an Israeli ordnance buried under the rubble. I went into the buffer zone, knowing that the only thing protecting me was the soldier tasked with choosing who to shoot recognizing that I am not Palestinian.

 

But the danger from Israeli violence doesn’t end in the Gaza Strip. Last year I was used as a human shield by Israeli soldiers while photographing in Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp, and that night was held at gunpoint by Israeli soldiers who then threw a flash grenade as they released me. I’ve been repeatedly threatened and spit on at right-wing Israeli demonstrations in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

 

Eisner’s anti-Palestinian racism reinforces the propaganda of the Israeli government and groups like the Anti-Defamation League, who published a survey claiming the Gaza Strip and West Bank are the world’s epicenter of anti-Semitism — a study so deeply flawed that the Forward itself published a short critique of it.

 

In my experience, if Palestinians in Gaza pose a threat to the health of professional journalists who happen to be Jewish, it’s only by offering too much food and sweets.

 

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/06/jewish-reporter-responds

 

and this is relevant to the topic, because ???

[hmm 979]

and this is relevant to the topic, because ???

The thread went off-topic in the first page though

OT: Idk what to think of this to be honest. As much as the people of Gaza desperately need what the boat was bringing, their attempt was futile and was never going to be of any practical help. 

[Melech 9,900]

The thread went off-topic in the first page though

OT: Idk what to think of this to be honest. As much as the people of Gaza desperately need what the boat was bringing, their attempt was futile and was never going to be of any practical help. 

Yeah, all they wanted was to provocate (is that a word?) the Israel. 

[hmm 979]

Yeah, all they wanted was to provocate (is that a word?) the Israel. 

provoke would be the word  

It could be either that or a symbolic attempt to bring to light the Israeli maritime blockade.