• November 4, 2024
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Articles Global Affairs Palestine/Israel

On the Road to Gaza: The Freedom Flotilla Will Sail Again

By Ramzy Baroud What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets? On a daily basis, Gaza is conveyed to us as a bloody image or a dramatic video, none of which can truly capture […]

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Mission Accomplished: Why Solidarity Boats to Gaza Succeed despite Failing to Break the Siege

By Ramzy Baroud When Mike Treen, the national director of the Unite Union in New Zealand, arrived at the airport in the capital, Auckland, on 1 August, a group of people was anxiously waiting for him at the terminal with Palestinian flags and flowers. They hugged him, chanted for Palestinian freedom and performed the customary native […]

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Freedom Flotilla: Mike Treen Discusses Gaza Trip with Ramzy Baroud

Mike Treen, National Director of Unite Union, Auckland, discusses with Palestinian writer Ramzy Baroud on why he is going on the Freedom Flotilla in July 2018. The Flotilla will take aid to Gaza in an attempt to break the 11-years Israeli blockade.