New Israeli flotilla attack video 16, June 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in American ME Relations, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.Tags: Flotilla, Flotilla video, New flotilla video
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Some parts of this video are a bit difficult to watch.
Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara, May 31st 2010 // 15 min. from Cultures of Resistance on Vimeo.
This is the latest video from the Israeli flotilla attack. Some things I learned:
- The boat was a lot larder than I first realised
- There were SIGNIFICANTLY more people on board than I first realised
- This video mooching around what I’d guess to be a fair bit of the ship gave no evidence whatsoever of any quasi-militias on board. The worst was a guy – quite literally – flicking something at an Israeli helicopter with a tiny hand-held catapult. A bit pathetic and pointless really.
- This video shows what I imagine to be a majority of the people on board having nothing whatsoever to do with brandishing any weapons or attacking anyone. Most people seemed to be holding cameras, offering first-aid and generally milling around.
- The caveat to some of the above points being that this video does not cover any struggles/fighting between Israelis and others. Yet, my point overall has been and still is that the vast majority of people on board wanted no fight to break-out. I’ve no doubt that some were looking for a confrontation, but, I suggest, that such people are not in the majority.
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