VIDEOS OF WHAT HAPPENED ON THE MAVI MARMARA
Released June 10 by Free Gaza (via) Yediot Aharanot. June 11, 2010.
**Thermal imaging of an IDF boat riding alongside the Mavi Marmara
**Video from activists on-board; shown on CNN Turkey and Israel's Channel 2
Video from Israeli Navy boats riding alongside the Mavi Marmara
IDF thermal imaging from above
Video taken from Mavi Marmara
**From security cameras on Mavi Marmara--in preparation for IDF's arrival
ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED ON THE MAVI MARMARA
In U.S. media
"Days of Planning Led to Flotilla's Hour of Chaos," Sabrina Tavernise and Ethan Bronner, New York Times. June 4, 2010
From the Israeli soldiers
"We had no choice," Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post. June 4, 2010
"A brutal ambush at sea," Ron Ben-Yishai, Yediot Aharanot. May 31, 2010.
From the flotillistas
Interview with Ahmad Ibrahimi, Imam and Coordinator of Algerian Delegation to “Freedom Flotilla," Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas). June 4, 2010. MEMRI. Video #2504.
Interview with Murat Akina on taking Israeli soldiers as hostages. Channel 10 Israel (Via Elder of Ziyon). June 10, 2010.
Testimony from ship captain of Mavi Marmara about his efforts to activists' preparations for battle. Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. June 6, 2010.
"Soldiers Thought We Would Kill Them," Yediot Aharanot. June 7, 2010.
"Eyewitness Reports about the Flotilla Clash: There Was Resistance and Israeli Soldiers Were Captured; IHH Official: Our Goal Was to Reach Gaza or Die Trying," MEMRI. Report #3002. June 6, 2010
"'Unprovoked' attack on Gaza bound ship," BBC. June 4, 2010
"Witness to Israeli raid," PRI's The World. Radio interview with US-based Brazilian journalist, Lara Lee. June 3, 2010.
GOOD ANALYSIS OF THE DIVERSE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS
Geopolitical analysis
See also page on analysis of Erdogan and AKP's reorientation of Turkish regime, and what it means for region, US, and Israel.
"Op-ed: The Ballgame and the Sideshow," Thomas Friedman, New York Times. June 4, 2010.
"The US Is Defending Not Just Its Closest Ally in Israeli Raid, but Also Approach to War," Emptywheel.com. June 4, 2010.
"Op-ed: Erdogan's Turkey is Not a Friend," Michael Rubin, Forward. June 2, 2010.
"Mideast Peace Tops List of Hopeless Causes," Aaron David Miller, Bloomberg.com. June 3, 2010. See also interview with Miller here.
Military/strategic analysis
"Op-ed: A botched raid, a vital embargo," Daniel Gordis, New York Times. June 3, 2010.
"What's the Right Way to Board a Hostile Ship?" Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy. June 2, 2010.
"How Israel botched what should have been a straightforward military operation," Fred Kaplan, Slate. June 2, 2010.
"What's to investigate? We know what happened to the Gaza flotilla," Shmuel Rosner, Slate. June 1, 2010.
"In the Past," by Yoav Fromer, Tablet Magazine. June 1, 2010.
Legal analysis
"Q&A: Is Israel's naval blockade of Gaza legal?" Reuters.com. June 2, 2010.
"The Gaza flotilla and the maritime blockade of Gaza--legal background," Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. May 31, 2010.
Public relations and public opinion analysis
"Our PR amateurs," Yair Lapid, Yediot Aharanot. June 4, 2010
"Op-ed: An Assault Cloaked in Peace," Michael Oren, New York Times. June 2, 2010.
"How did we get so dumb?" Sima Kadmon, Yediot Aharanot. June 1, 2010.
"Siege Fatigue and the Flotilla Mistake," Ronen Bergman, Wall Street Journal. June 1, 2010.
"Everyone thinks we're bananas," Jeffrey Goldberg @ The Atlantic. June 1, 2010.
"Facebook meets the flotilla," Daniel Gordis, The Huffington Post, May 31, 2010.
Other footage from on-board the Mavi Marmara earlier in its trip
"I wanted to be a shahid" (Released by IDF June 3, 2010)
Pre-trip TV coverage of flotillistas from Al-Jazeera
Al-Jazeera. May 30, 2010. Via PMW.
Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas). May 30, 2010. Via PMW.
From Al-Jazeera English. May 27, 2010.
Middle East Monitor - UK NGO
Post-trip TV coverage
"German news on the flotilla," Channel One Germany, June 10, 2010. Via Barry Rubin.
"Turkish paper releases 'censored' photos of beaten Israeli commandos," Haaretz. June 5, 2010.
"Israel's attack on all of us," AlJazeera.com Magazine. June 6, 2010.
"Turkish protestors: We are all soldiers of Hamas," Yediot Aharanot. June 3, 2010.
Al-Jazeera English. May 31, 2010.
"CNN News: Octavia Nasr explains Arab Rage and Social Media," The Second Draft.com May 31, 2010.
Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar). May 31, 2010. "Yemen-Based Egyptian Cleric Wagdi Ghoneim Interview"
Via MEMRI, 2491. June 1, 2010.
Coverage as seen on Israeli television
Channel 2 Mako (with help of Google translate)
Political Cartoons
Michael Ramirez, Investors Business Daily. June 1, 2010
Abu Muqawama.com via LATimes, July 12, 2010.
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