Midnight on the Mavi Marmara

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Moustafa Bayoumi Editor ISBN: 9781935928010
Publisher: OR Books Publication: September 1, 2010
Imprint: OR Books Language: English
Author: Moustafa Bayoumi Editor
ISBN: 9781935928010
Publisher: OR Books
Publication: September 1, 2010
Imprint: OR Books
Language: English

Eastern Mediterranean Monday May 31st 2010 4.30am: Israeli commandos boarding from sea and air attack the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sails through international waters bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes nine peace activists are dead shot by the Israelis. Scores of others are injured. The 700 people on board the ships are arrested before being transported to detention centers in Israel and then deported.Within hours outrage at Israel's action echoes around the world. Spontaneous demonstrations in Europe the United States Turkey and Gaza itself denounce the attack. Turkey's prime minister describes it as a "bloody massacre" and "state terrorism." Lebanon's prime minister calls it "a dangerous and crazy step that will exacerbate tensions in the region."In these pages a range of activists journalists and analysts piece together the events that occurred that May night unpicking their meanings for Israel's illegal three-year-long blockade of Gaza and the decades-long Israel/Palestine conflict more generally. Mixing together first-hand testimony documentary record and illustration with hard-headed analysis and historical overview Midnight on the Mavi Marmara reveals why the attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla may just turn out to be Israel's Selma Alabama: the beginning of the end for an apartheid Palestine.

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Eastern Mediterranean Monday May 31st 2010 4.30am: Israeli commandos boarding from sea and air attack the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sails through international waters bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes nine peace activists are dead shot by the Israelis. Scores of others are injured. The 700 people on board the ships are arrested before being transported to detention centers in Israel and then deported.Within hours outrage at Israel's action echoes around the world. Spontaneous demonstrations in Europe the United States Turkey and Gaza itself denounce the attack. Turkey's prime minister describes it as a "bloody massacre" and "state terrorism." Lebanon's prime minister calls it "a dangerous and crazy step that will exacerbate tensions in the region."In these pages a range of activists journalists and analysts piece together the events that occurred that May night unpicking their meanings for Israel's illegal three-year-long blockade of Gaza and the decades-long Israel/Palestine conflict more generally. Mixing together first-hand testimony documentary record and illustration with hard-headed analysis and historical overview Midnight on the Mavi Marmara reveals why the attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla may just turn out to be Israel's Selma Alabama: the beginning of the end for an apartheid Palestine.

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