Coming soon: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara

by shergald Wed Jul 14th, 2010 at 02:30:03 PM EST

Trailer for the documentary, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara

"We have been attacked while in international waters. That means the Israelis have behaved like pirates. The moment they start to steer this ship towards Israel, we have also been kidnapped. The whole action is illegal."--Henning Mankell, speaking aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla

It was the Eastern Mediterranean, Monday, May 31st, 2010. The time was 4.30am: Israeli commandos boarded from sea and air and attacked the six boats that constituted the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it was bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes, nine peace activists are dead, shot by the Israelis with scores of others are injured. The 700 people on board the ships were arrested then transported to detention centers in Israel. They were finally deported.

The documentary is a reality based recounting of the Mavi Marmari attack, free of Israeli spin and propaganda about what actually happened on that night.

Within hours, outrage at Israel's action echoes around the world. Spontaneous demonstrations in Europe, the United States, Turkey, and Gaza itself denounce the attack. Turkey's prime minister describes it as a "bloody massacre" and "state terrorism." Lebanon's prime minister calls it "a dangerous and crazy step that will exacerbate tensions in the region."
In these pages, a range of activists, journalists, and analysts piece together the events that occurred that June night, unpicking their meanings for Israel's illegal, three-year-long blockade of Gaza and the decades-long Israel/Palestine conflict more generally. Mixing together first-hand testimony, documentary record, and illustration, with hard-headed analysis and historical overview, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara reveals why the attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla may just turn out to be Israel's Selma, Alabama: the beginning of the end for an apartheid Palestine.

Contributors the documentary include: Omar Barghouti, Max Blumenthal, Juan Cole, Sara Roy, Norman Finkelstein, Glenn Greenwald, Rashid Khalidi, Alia Malek , Lubna Masarwa and Raja Shehadeh.

Look for it coming soon.

Coming soon: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Coming soon: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara (2.50 / 2)

Whoever's on duty today might want to correct those little errors in the text since you have removed editing ability from the diary.

I also want to thank all those lurkers who come by to read my diaries. You constitute 94% of the daily visitors to EU and makeup what I believe is the most important sector of readers. Keep coming.

by shergald on Wed Jul 14th, 2010 at 02:36:02 PM EST

Re: Coming soon: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara (none / 1)

Gambatte, shergald.

fairleft

by fairleft (fairleftatyahoodotcom) on Wed Jul 14th, 2010 at 04:19:37 PM EST
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Re: Coming soon: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara (none / 1)

Fairleft, you're not a lurker. You're an active. But at least you're not part of the very active cliquie, what they're now calling the community.

by shergald on Wed Jul 14th, 2010 at 09:04:52 PM EST
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Re: Coming soon: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara (none / 0)

Don't stoop to the level of the haters: that's exactly what they want. But I'm sure you know that.

fairleft

by fairleft (fairleftatyahoodotcom) on Thu Jul 15th, 2010 at 11:05:01 AM EST
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Re: Coming soon: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara (none / 0)

Yeap. Jake especially who has ranted against the display of IP on ET in the past, and just recently. He'd like it restricted to the Salon (off the frontpage).

by shergald on Thu Jul 15th, 2010 at 11:41:51 AM EST
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Re: Coming soon: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara (4.00 / 3)

shergald:

Jake especially who has ranted against the display of IP on ET in the past

In this thread you are taken to task by four of the site staff: dvx, afew, DoDo and Colman for violating the site's copyright policy which is also quoted to you and which you dismiss off-hand.

The same thing happened in this other thread involving site editors afew, DoDo, and ceebs. That makes five site staff objecting to you violating the site's IP rules.

You may fixate on JakeS as much as you want and rant about "haters" but that is not the problem. The problem is you wilfully ignore

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After it has been repeatedly pointed out to you by both regular users and site staff.

Your current diary, BTW, doesn't seem to violate the policy and nobody has complained about it.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jul 15th, 2010 at 12:19:39 PM EST
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Re: Coming soon: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara (none / 0)

I don't disagree with you about those rules violations.

But, about Jake S, it does seem his comment below is mean-spirited. Why belittle complaining about not being able to edit your own diary; who wouldn't complain about that sort of 'punishment'? In general, why add fuel to fire?

fairleft

by fairleft (fairleftatyahoodotcom) on Thu Jul 15th, 2010 at 12:36:34 PM EST
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Re: Coming soon: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara (4.00 / 2)

No love lost between JakeS and shergald, but shergald might want to drop the persecution complex and you might want to not encourage it, given that if the site staff were intent on censoring or banning shergald he would have been gone long ago. This is not DKos, you know?

By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jul 15th, 2010 at 12:40:47 PM EST
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Re: Coming soon: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara (1.00 / 3)

You were part of Jake's posse who self-admittedly decided to hijack a diary of mine in the fashion of typical trolls, weren't you?

So go tell it to someone else. That happened long before the complaints of copyright infringement, which never occurred in any case.

And please stop the junior psychiatry. It is unbecoming even someone of your status. Fairleft, as I, have seen this kind of thing before on the place you suggest this isn't: Dkos. So, as they say in the English vernacular, stuff it.

by shergald on Thu Jul 15th, 2010 at 03:56:41 PM EST
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