Israel's Deadly Attack on Peace Activists Provokes International Outrage, Diplomatic

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Peck: Flotilla raid was 'highly suspect'

June 2: Former U.S. Ambassador Edward Peck tells msnbc's Contessa Brewer that the people aboard the raided ships were "defenders, not the attackers."

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Meet the 19-Year-Old American Killed in the Flotilla Attack

This post originally appeared on War in Context.

For several days, Israel has been able to contain some of the fallout from the flotilla massacre by withholding information about the dead and injured. The object of this exercise has clearly been to slow the flow of information in the hope that by the time the most damning facts become known, the international media’s attention will have turned elsewhere.

But the dead now have names and faces and one turns out to be a nineteen-year-old American: Furkan Dogan.

Dogan is alleged to have been shot with five bullets, four in the head.

Does the Obama administration intend to investigate the circumstances in which one of its citizens was killed? Protecting the lives of Americans is after all the most fundamental responsibility of our government.

Dogan’s death was presumably instant, but according to Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal there were others on board the Mavi Marmara who died because Israeli soldiers refused to treat their injuries.

“After the shooting and the first deaths, people put up white flags and signs in English and Hebrew. An Isreali [on the ship] asked the soldiers to take away the injured, but they did not and the injured died on the ship.”

Crimes have been committed and since the suspects all acted under the direction of the Israeli government and its defense forces and took place on international waters outside Israel’s area of legal jurisdiction, “a prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation conforming to international standards” — a demand made by the UN Security Council with the support of the Obama administration — cannot be conducted by the Israeli government or a commission appointed by them. An investigation conforming to international standards must also be an international inquiry.

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I REALLY wish Obama would fucking grow a pair and man up. Israel has been acting like a bully over in the middle east for some time. People need to wake up and get their head out of their ass, Israel needs someone to give them a pretty severe dressing down, and leave the threat over their heads of the US not backing them up on things anymore as a consequence to their actions.

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We need to stop handing them billions of dollars

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I REALLY wish Obama would fucking grow a pair and man up. Israel has been acting like a bully over in the middle east for some time. People need to wake up and get their head out of their ass, Israel needs someone to give them a pretty severe dressing down, and leave the threat over their heads of the US not backing them up on things anymore as a consequence to their actions.

He'll just whitewash whatever Israel did.

We need to stop handing them billions of dollars

today

All that fiat money is a real sham(e). Edited June 3, 2010 by Myk JL

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He'll just whitewash whatever Israel did.

typical double standard of US foreign policy

quick to condemn NK for torpedo attack without proof

a week later they are sheltering Israel like they can do no wrong

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Now Israelis are mocking the dead activists and oppressed palestines. No wonder the whole world hates them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_wl2491

The Israeli government has apologized for sending the press a link to an online video parodying last week's deadly commando raid on a flotilla of pro-Gaza activists.The video, which promptly went viral, has stirred up further outrage about the fallout from the raid, with some calling for the video's apparent creator, a Jerusalem Post columnist, to be fired for spoofing the circumstances of an attack claiming nine fatalities.

The video shows people dressed up as Gaza activists, some in Arab-looking attire, singing "We Con the World" to the tune of the Michael Jackson hit "We Are the World" — with the "we" being the activists seeking to break Israel's blockade of Gaza. Waving knives and batons, the faux-activists sing: "We'll make the world abandon reason / We'll make them believe that the Hamas is Momma Teresa," and, "As Allah has shown us / For facts there's no demand."

You can watch the video here:

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Israel is the original tool shed