UN fact-finding mission says Israelis “executed” US citizen

The report says Dogan had apparently been “lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time” before being shot in his face.

The forensic evidence that establishes that fact is “tattooing around the wound in his face,” indicating that the shot was “delivered at point blank range.”

The UN isn’t usually [...]

Turkey says will send another flotilla to Gaza, backed by their navy

Among Israel’s consequences in attacking the flotilla in international waters, killing a few Turks in the process, is the destruction of their alliance with Turkey, one of the few friends they had left in the area.

A Special Place in Hell / The Second Gaza War: Israel lost at sea

Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, says what the commandos did was lunatic and self-defeating.

We are no longer defending Israel. We are now defending the siege, which is itself becoming Israel’s Vietnam.

We were determined to avoid an honest look at the first Gaza war. Now, in international waters and having opened fire on an international [...]