'Just World News' with Helena Cobban

Turkel compounds Netanyahu's problems

When Israeli PM established the internal and powerless commission under retired High Court judge Jacob Turkel to investigate some aspects of the Mavi Marmara raid, he did so only as...

IHH publishes report on flotilla raid; Tirkel Committee temporarily beached

The IHH has now published a very thorough-looking report on the whole flotilla project and Israel's raid against it. Kudos to Adam Horowitz and Mondoweiss for publishing it. I'm reading...

Obama and Erdogan's 75-minute talk at G-20

Today's Zaman has an intriguing description of the 75-minute meeting that Obama held with Turkish PM Rejep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday, the eve of yesterday's G-20 meeting in Canada. It's...

Boarding the 'Mavi Marmara', 1947 edition

An anonymous friend who served with the Royal (British) Navy in the eastern Mediterranean in 1947-48 sent me some notes about how the Royal Navy set about the mission of...

Swedish dockworkers follow Oakland's BDS lead

Following the amazing lead given by citizen activists and dockworkers/longshoremen in Oakland, California at 5 a.m. on Sunday, today dockworkers in Sweden announced they will try to institute a week-long...

Turkey, Israel, the U.S.

Several strongly pro-Israeli members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have stepped up their campaigns against NATO ally Turkey over the past week, in a campaign that has...

Quietly charismatic Mavi Marmara survivor speaks out

Go to the website of Fakhoora.org and see this short video of Fakhoora director Farooq Burney describing his experiences aboard the Mavi Marmara during the raid. Burney was on the...

Flotilla: Obama backs Israel's self-'investigation'

The White House yesterday expressed support for the Israeli government's plan to launch its own self-'investigation' into the violent IDF commando raid in international waters that two weeks ago today...

81 great questions from Avnery on the flotilla ''Inquiry'

Veteran peace activist Uri Avnery has compiled a great list of 81 questions that any credible Israeli commission of inquiry should fearlessly answer. Don't hold your breath that any of...

Flotilla: NYT criticizes Israel-US investigation plan

An editorial in today's NYT criticizes the agreement that Washington and Israel reportedly reached a couple of days ago under which Israel would run the allegedly 'international' investigation into its...

Washington's bizarre stance on flotilla raid investigation

Haaretz is now reporting that, Israel and the United States agreed Thursday on the nature of the Israeli investigative committee that will look into the events surrounding the takeover of...

Flotilla: Sweden's Bildt and other international dimensions

I'm traveling. No time to blog properly. In the meantime, here is an important-looking item: Swedish FM Carl Bildt says Israel needs the international community to help it get out...