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"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, aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
At 4:30 AM on Monday, May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos, boarding from sea and air, attacked the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sailed through international waters attempting to bring humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes, nine peace activists were dead, shot by the Israelis. Scores of others were injured.
Within hours, outrage at Israel's action echoed around the world. Spontaneous demonstrations occurred in Europe, the United States, Turkey, and Gaza itself to denounce the attack. Turkey's prime minister described it as a "bloody massacre" and "state terrorism."
In these pages, a range of activists, journalists, and analysts piece together the events that occurred that May night. Mixing together first-hand testimony and documentary record with hard-headed analysis and historical overview, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara reveals why the attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla may just turn out to be Israel's Selma, Alabama moment: the beginning of the end for an apartheid Palestine.
Moustafa Bayoumi is an associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. He is co-editor of The Edward Said Reader and the author of the American Book Award-winning How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America.
Contents
Introduction
Moustafa Bayoumi
1. ON BOARD THE SHIPS
Flotilla Raid Diary: "A man is shot. I am seeing it happen."
Henning Mankell
What Happened to Us Is Happening in Gaza
Iara Lee
Defenders of the Mavi Marmara
Ken O'Keefe
From '48 to Gaza
Lubna Masarwa
The Price of Defying Israel
Paul Larudee
Kidnapped by Israel, Forsaken by Britain
Jamal Elshayyal
First, They Appeared As Shadows
Sümeyye Ertekin
An Act of State Terrorism
Kevin Ovenden
Why do we participate in the Freedom Flotilla?
Haneen Zoabi
Poem: What Is Not Allowed
Richard Tillinghast
2. UNDERSTANDING THE ATTACK
Ship of Fools
Gideon Levy
The Day the World Became Gaza
Ali Abunimah
Israel Reveals Its True Face
Ahdaf Soueif
Israel's Security Cannot Come at Any Price
Ben Saul
The Real Threat Aboard the Freedom Flotilla
Noam Chomsky
Three Reflections
Rashid Khalidi
The Gaza Occupation and Siege Are Illegal
George Bisharat
Israel's Anti-1967 Moment
Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss
"You Will Have No Protection"
Alice Walker
List of Items Prohibited/Permitted into the Gaza Strip
Gisha.org
3. THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA
Gaza: Treading on Shards
Sara Roy
Not by Cement Alone
Amira Hass
Digging Behind the Gaza Blockade
Nadia Hijab
Israel Itself May Be Among the Victims of Its Own Pathology
Eyad Al Sarraj
1,000 Days
Raji Sourani
4. INSIDE ISRAEL
Lexicon of Most Misleading Terms in Israel/Palestine Conflict
Amira Hass
"No Citizenship Without Loyalty!"
Neve Gordon
Israel's Commando Complex
Doron Rosenblum
The Deadly Closing of the Israeli Mind
Ilan Pappé
Israel's Loss of Moral Imagination
Henry Siegman
The Myth of Israeli Morality
Lamis Andoni
A History of Impunity
Yousef Munayyer
The Israeli Media's Flotilla Fail
Max Blumenthal
No Villa in the Jungle
Raja Shehadeh
5. OLD FRIENDS, NEW THINKING
Turkey After the Flotilla
Murat Dagli
Smearing the IHH
Martha B. Cohen
Victimhood, Aggression, and Tribalism
Glenn Greenwald
Schumer's Sippenhaftung
Juan Cole
Defending the Indefensible: A How-To Guide
Stephen M. Walt
Treat Israel Like Iran
Stephen Kinzer
The Victim That Is Israel
Arun Gupta
No Direction Home
Daniel Luban
Something's Got to Give
Alia Malek
Ever Fewer Hosannas
Norman Finkelstein
6. PALESTINE ON OUR MINDS
International Solidarity Under Attack
Mike Marqusee
Our South Africa Moment
Omar Barghouti
Expediting the Day of Liberation
Adam Shapiro
