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By US TO GAZA | October 19, 2010

Dear Friends of US TO GAZA,

We are writing with an exciting update report on the plan to send a U.S.-flagged ship as part of the next Freedom Flotilla sailing to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.  Representatives from the US BOAT TO GAZA have just returned from Geneva where an important meeting took place with representatives from Switzerland, Turkey, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Italy, Sweden, Malaysia, the Netherlands and The Free Gaza Movement. US TO GAZA has joined the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla II and we are now deeply involved as part of the international team planning for the next mission which will be leaving at the end of March 2011.

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Ralph G. Loeffler writing from Kayseri, Turkey, Live from Palestine, 18 October 2010

Furkan Dogan. I’m going to say Furkan Dogan so often that it will sound, as it rightly should, just as “American” as John Smith or Bill Jones. Furkan Dogan was an American, a young American of only 19 years when on 31 May a hail of Israeli bullets ended his life on the Mavi Marmara Turkish humanitarian aid ship. Furkan was filming the Israeli assault when an Israeli commando fired his first shot pointblank hitting Furkan squarely in the face. Four more shots were fired into Furkan leaving him dead and unrecognizable.

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GazaFriends:

Amazing to watch Dershowitz lose his cool and the plot as the event progresses, pointing his finger at Susan Abulhawa, calling her names (part 2) and finally asking the audience to shutup (part 3).

Watch the YouTube versions as it seems many people could not view the video from the website:

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2lOOb80hsM
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKHRnKOxenY
part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l58IEKJQeRk

Please add your comments to the event’s facebook page (join the page if you have not already):

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Mornings-in-Jenin/110012312358564