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Starving Gaza is not cricket

Neither is stopping the aid flotilla sailing.

(LONDON) - Setting sail with the Gaza Flotilla is no Sunday afternoon game of cricket. You're suddenly in the blockade busting business and if you succeed in getting through you'll put a lot of noses out of joint and symbolically squidge the evil ambitions of racist-supremacists like Netanyahu, Barak, Lieberman and Peres.

You’re interfering in their economic terror war to crush Hamas. And the Israelis don’t take kindly to anyone spoiling their sick fun.

Uri Avnery Elaborates on Israeli Psychosis

I don't always agree with Avnery but I have a lot of respect to this brave man.

(LONDON / TEL AVIV) - In this video, noted Israeli activist Uri Avnery refers to the Israeli ignorance, arrogance and collective neurosis.

The founder of the Israeli peace movement Gush Shalom, Uri Avnery Hebrew: אורי אבנרי‎, Uri Avneri, is an Israeli writer and outspoken advocate for the people of Palestine.

Welcome to the State of the Police

Special thanks to Adam Keller's blog, for Israeli citizen Hagai Matar's eyewitness account of events yesterday at Ben Gurion airport.

(TEL AVIV) - Hundreds of police and other security personnel, dozens of Interior Ministry employees, a careful intelligence work, a massive PR campaign. What for?

In order to prevent a few hundred peace activists from touring the country and seeing its reality that, to arrest five Israelis, and drive away from the airport three journalists - including yours truly.

Flotilla, Flytilla and the prospect of `Civil Society Action`

Israel's fate is doomed. It is just a question of time. It is not a matter of ‘if’ but a question of ‘when’.

(LONDON) - It might be argued that the passing week was not very easy on the Palestinian solidarity movement: firstly, an international peaceful flotilla aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza did not manage to leave Greek ports.

The Greek government had surrendered submissively to Israeli pressure and American Jewish organisations, and blocked the naval enterprise.

A letter from a Palestinian woman to the supporters of Palestine

I hope one day to share a coffee with you in my home or in yours, for when this day comes we will have reached our freedom.

(RAMALLAH) - I would like to talk to you as the voice of the thousands of Palestinians who appreciate what you are doing. You who have a great commitment to human rights and who actually act upon your beliefs.

You risk your life to both witness and tell the truth of what you see. You are a group of people who understand what is happening in the holy land and have decided to dedicate your time, money and energy to the issue.

Israel Accused of Mistreating Elderly Western National Prisoners

'Welcome to Palestine' partipants who simply told Israeli authorities they were there to visit Palestine were arrested in droves for simply trying...

(BETHLEHEM / JERUSALEM) - Israeli authorities set stringent conditions for release of "Welcome to Palestine" prisoners.

The large majority of international visitors are still incarcerated under brutal conditions, begin a hunger strike in Israeli jail Bethlehem, today.

Counter Piracy Update

Status of seized vessels and crews in Somalia, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. U.S.A.: Nothing to celebrate this 4th of July.

(NAIROBI, Kenya Ecoterra) - Today, at least 34 larger plus 17 smaller foreign vessels and one stranded barge are kept in Somali hands against the will of their owners

At least 573 hostages or captives - including a South-African yachting couple as well as a Danish yacht-family with three children and two friends suffer to be released.

Update on Counter-Piracy Operations

Status of seized vessels and crews in Somalia, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

(NAIROBI, Kenya Ecoterra) - ECOTERRA Intl. and ECOP-marine serve concerning the counter-piracy issues as advocacy groups in their capacity as human rights, marine and maritime monitors as well as in co-operation with numerous other organizations, groups and individuals as information clearing-house.

In difficult cases we have successfully served as mediators.

The inaugural Newport Celtic Festival & Highland Games

(Newport, Oregon) - The inaugural Newport Celtic Festival & Highland Games presented by Toby Murry Toyota on June 10-11-12 will feature two unique events in addition to the traditional Highland Games contests of skill and strength. Both contests are intended to become traditions at the annual festival and will feature a $100 cash prize to the winners.

Southern Living, The First Lady of Tennessee, Caramel Cake & CoCo

THE GOOD STUFF with Coco McCain

(CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.) - Spring in the South is glorious and Spring Break is even better! We’ve had a marvelous break—but it’s great to be back ...and there’s a lot to catch up on!

Here’s what we’ve been up to this Spring Break - in as much of a chronological order as I can remember. (More on each event later!)