RACHEL CORRIE - ISRAEL ALLOWED
TO ATTACK HUMANITARIAN SHIP TO GHAZZA IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS! UPDATED 16 MAY 2011
BREAKING NEWS: Israel Attacks Humanitarian Ship to Gaza in International Waters
by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
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Global Research, May 16, 2011
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Montreal, 12.30 AM EST,
SEE UPDATED ARTICLE, May 16, 12.50pm
NOTE: Our earlier report (filed at 12.30am) following initial communication with the ship shortly after midnight (March 16) pointed to cooperation between the Israeli navy and their Egyptian counterparts. The initial report pertaining to the role of the Egyptian navy was incorrect. While there was "cooperation", it should be emphasised that the Egyptian navy played a supportive role, which served to appeasing the Israeli attacks as well as escorting the Spirit of Rachel Corrie into Egyptian territorial waters. Global Research has been in contact with the Spirit of Rachel Corrie, a Malaysian ship carrying a humanitarian aid cargo to Gaza, which has been attacked in international waters by Israel.
The vessel left the Port of Piraeus, Greece on Wednesday, May 11 carrying 7.5 kilometers of UPVC
(plastic) sewage pipes to help restore the devastated sewerage system in Gaza. The humanitarian initiative is sponsored by Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF) and participating in this mission includes anti-war activists and journalists, consisting of 7 Malaysians, 2 Irish, 2 Indians and 1 Canadian. The Spirit of Rachel Corrie is an initiative of The Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF) chaired by Malaysia's former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamed. The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) (Global Research) is also participating in this mission.
In a subsequent communication from the boat, it would appear that Israel sought the collaboration of Egypt
"The MV Finch, carrying sewage pipes to Gaza, had warning shots fired at it by Israeli forces in theand the humanitarian vessel was escorted into Egyptian territorial waters. A subsequent report from the ship confirmed that the Egyptian vessel acted in support of the Mission. We will be informing our readers as events unfold. UPDATE AFP REPORT The first press reports state that "Israeli naval forces fired warning shots at a Malaysian ship carrying aid to Gaza as it approached the shore, forcing it to withdraw to Egyptian waters, the vessel's Malaysian organiser told AFP." Palestinian security zone this morning at 0654 Jordan time (0354 GMT)," said Shamsul Azhar from the Perdana Global Peace Foundation.
Israeli naval forces fired warning shots at a Malaysian ship carrying aid to Gaza as it approached the shore,
"The MV Finch, carrying sewage pipes to Gaza, had warning shots fired at it by Israeli forces in theforcing it to withdraw to Egyptian waters, the vessel's Malaysian organiser told AFP. Palestinian security zone this morning at 0654 Jordan time (0354 GMT)," said Shamsul Azhar from the Perdana Global Peace Foundation. "Currently the ship has been forced to anchor in Egyptian waters, 30 nautical miles from Gaza," he told AFP." [emphasis added]
Global Research is in contact with the Ship and will be providing updates in the next few hours.
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Global Research Articles by Michel Chossudovsky Anonymous: I Killed Rachel Corrie – A Poem
I Killed Rachel Corrie
I killed Rachel Corrie.
I never heard of her
but I paid my taxes,
so I killed Rachel Corrie.
I built the bulldozer
and trained the driver
and gave the orders
that took her life,
so I killed Rachel Corrie.
I went to watch my team play a big game
and to have a few drinks with them afterwards
instead of reading what Rachel wrote
and hearing what she said,
so I killed Rachel Corrie.
I go to church on Sunday
and attend Friday prayers
and keep Shabbat holy
but mustn’t upset my community
with painful questions,
so I killed Rachel Corrie.
I attend dialog groups
and hear both sides
and give them equal weight
as did my forefathers
to the Japanese and the Ainu
the Roman and the Gaul
the European and the Choctaw
the White and the Black
the Nazi and the Jew
and the Israeli and the Palestinian,
so I killed Rachel Corrie.
I write letters
to newspapers and elected officials
and I demonstrate outside their offices
and I donate to human rights groups
and to send humanitarian aid
and I support nonviolence
and I boycott and divest and sanction,
so I killed Rachel Corrie.
I travel to Gaza
in freedom marches
and convoys
and flotillas
and I attend conferences in Bil’in
and fly to Tel Aviv
and march to Jerusalem
and I’ve been beaten
and shot
and jailed
and expelled,
so I killed Rachel Corrie.
I resist with arms
and launch Qassams
and strap explosives to myself
and drop bombs and napalm
and white phosphorous and DIME weapons
and I kill as many as I can
of those who are the enemy
and I torture and terrify them
and their families and children
so that they know they are never safe,
so I killed Rachel Corrie.
I killed Rachel Corrie because it was not enough;
I killed Rachel Corrie because I did not drop everything and devote my life to making this stop;
I killed Rachel Corrie because I did not change the base reality of our world and I, in fact, participated in it;
I
killed Rachel Corrie because I cared too much for my career and my
comfort and my hobbies and my obligations and my conferences and my
projects and my causes and my campaigns and my coalitions and my
ideologies and my letters and my articles and my poetry;
I
killed Rachel Corrie because I still really want to dance around to Pat
Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers;
I
killed Rachel Corrie because I could have been one of millions choosing
to give up everything and walk in step so that our feet causes the
earth to shake and the rivers to change course and the mountains to
crumble and the mighty to tremble and bow to our voices as we say,
“Al-Sha’ab yureed,” “Si, se puede,” “Never again,” and it will no longer
matter whether we are Jews, Muslims or Christians, Arabs, Kurds,
Armenians or Hebrews, immigrants or indigenous, men or women, because we
are united in ending the injustice and in preventing and reversing the
ethnic cleansing of one people in order to pay for the ethnic cleansing
of another.
But I am not one of those millions united for justice.
So I killed Rachel Corrie.
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Tuesday 17 May 2011
RACHEL CORRIE ISRAEL ATTACKS HUMANITARIAN SHIP TO GHAZZA
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