Archive for the ‘Israeli Defence Forces’ Category
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
On August 16, the BBC TV show Panorama broadcast a 30-minute documentary titled "Death in the Med." Here's the program description: "As controversy over Israel's blockade of Gaza still rages, Jane Corbin asks what really happened on the Mavi Marmara, when Israeli commandos seized the ship and nine people died. ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
by Uri Goldflam
I'm about to confuse you.
A short summary of the past few days in the neighbourhood:
Unprovoked, the Lebanese army shoots and kills an Israeli soldier.
Six rockets are fired from Sinai, Egypt into Israel and Jordan. A Jordanian civilian is killed.
Three rockets and two mortars are fired ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
The Issue:
Today, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) confirmed Israel's assertion that its forces were operating in its sovereign territory when they came under fire yesterday (August 3, 2010) from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) at the border. One Israeli commander was killed and another seriously wounded in ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
On July 19, The State of Israel published a new update of the investigations into the Gaza Operation. This update follows the publication of "The Operation in Gaza - Factual and Legal Aspects" (July 2009) and "Gaza Operation Investigations: An Update" (January 2010).
In this document, the Government of Israel shares ...
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, looks at coverage of the Turkish prime minister in the wake the Gaza flotilla incident.
Israel's seizure of the Turkish registered ship Mavi Marmara on May 31 thrust Turkey and its controversial ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
This opinion piece by Charles W. Moore in the Saint John, NB-based Telegraph-Journal, makes the case for Israel's naval blockade of Gaza:
What did they expect? Israel wasn't about to let a bunch of politically-motivated provocateurs breach its three-year blockade of Gaza under the propaganda smokescreen of "delivering humanitarian aid."
Contrary to ...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Here is an op-ed by the National Post's Lorne Gunter:
It is possible for intelligent people to disagree over the way Israel stopped the flotilla that set out for Gaza from Turkey last month. Even after what we have learned about the "humanitarians" on board in the past two weeks -- ...
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
A report published on Monday (June 14) by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, offers an in-depth analysis of testimonies by Mavi Marmara passengers and IDF soldiers that boarded the ship. The report determined that passengers on the Mavi Marmara were prepared to resist the IDF soldiers and use violent ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
In this video released by the IDF, the captain of the Mavi Marmara crew members says that preparations for a violent confrontation with IDF forces were put in motion about two hours before the boarding began, when the Israeli Navy hailed the ship and told it to halt.
According to the ...
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
by David Ouellette
Initial reports about the deadly clashes between armed activists and Israeli naval commandos that erupted following Israel’s interdiction of the Free Gaza flotilla indicate that the Israeli soldiers were ambushed on a ship sponsored by an extremist Turkish organization, the Foundation for Human Rights & Humanitarian Relief, better ...
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