00:00
323
More
See all Show me
34. Cultures of Resistance: Love Boat or Hate Boat? An…
1 year ago
The Turkish NGO IHH began in 1992 as a humanitarian mission to offer relief to victims injured and displaced during the Bosnian war. They have held Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 2004. Since becoming a fully registered NGO in 1995, IHH -- The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief -- has accumulated more than 60,000 volunteers for their grassroots humanitarian efforts in 120 countries all over the world.

In the immediate aftermath of the massacre aboard the Mavi Marmara on May 31, 2010, while journalists and activists were detained and isolated from the world, the Israeli government was quick to unleash its own version of events. Although it had no evidence to support the inflammatory claim, government spokespeople were cynical enough to understand that first impressions in the mainstream media are what count, and with this in mind they began to hurl the word "terrorist" in reference to both the victims of their attack and the IHH, one of the main organizers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

In this short film, Cultures of Resistance interviews IHH vice president Huseyin Oruc, who discusses his response to the accusations and the highlights the true humanitarian work of his organization.

Likes

  • David Stein 1 year ago
    Show Boat: If the IHH really wanted to help people in Gaza they would have dealt with the reality that Israel controls the perimeter around Gaza and not Hamas. They themselves stated in the video that they must deal with the reality of Gaza and its control under Hamas. The reality that they choose to ignore, however, is that Israel already gives passage to much humanitarian relief on a daily basis. If they just wanted to pass on harmless aid, then they would have shipped on their goods to Israel and let it pass queitly onto Gaza. Instead, they sent a showboat as a form of self-promotion full of trained confrontationalists fully aware that actual aid had little if no chance of making it in without Israeli approval. Israel only inspects material and holds that which could be used for making weapons or construction material that could have a militant application. The IHH is not purely a relief organization but also an NGO that promotes Turkish policies--which are turning more Islamist over time. This is why we should be skeptical of the claims the IHH has to make.
  • Kanan48 1 year ago
    Here is some history about Gaza, to show for how long this occupation state is deliberately committing its war crimes.

    From an article with the title:"The Ordeals of Gaza"

    "Israeli military spokesmen, justifying their army's assault on the Gaza Strip, said the war was about Sderot. In a way, they were right. It is about Sderot. In 1948, where Sderot houses Israeli Jews today, there was a village called Najd - Arabic for a high plateau. It was home to about seven hundred people, most of them small farmers. Two days before the declaration of the State of Israel - that is, on May 13th - Haganah forces expelled the inhabitants.
    Eventually, these people - as the Egyptian Army that invaded Palestine a few days later gradually lost ground to the new Israeli Army - found refuge in the Gaza Strip....
    The Middle East Department of Israel's new foreign ministry made clear what fate was intended for them. Again, I quote from Tom Segev's 1949:
    The department staff estimated that the refugees would "manage." As they put it, "the most adaptable and best survivors would manage by a process of natural selection, and the others will waste away. Some will die but most will turn into human debris and social outcasts and probably join the poorest classes in the Arab countries." Ben-Gurion informed the Minister for Immigration, Moshe Shapira, that the "Government line is that they may not return. That was in April 1949. (page 30)" Link: charlesglass.net/archives/2009/01/the_ordeals_of.html

    And as Moshe Dayan stated in an oration at the funeral of an Israeli farmer killed by a Palestinian Arab in April 1956:

    ". . . Let us not today fling accusation at the murderers. What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived. We should demand his blood not from the [Palestinian] Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. . . . Let us make our reckoning today. We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house. . . . Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of [Palestinian] Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood." (Iron Wall, p. 101)"

    And regarding Hamas, just go and find out about the role of the Mosad and Golda!

    “Thanks to the Mossad, Israel’s “Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks”, the Hamas was allowed to reinforce its presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, Arafat’s Fatah Movement for National Liberation as well as the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression and intimidation
    Let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas. According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)”.
    Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement in Palestine, returning from Cairo in the seventies, established an Islamic charity association. Prime Minister Golda Meir, saw this as a an opportunity to counterbalance the rise of Arafat’s Fatah movement. .According to the Israeli weekly Koteret Rashit (October 1987), “The Islamic associations as well as the university had been supported and encouraged by the Israeli military authority” in charge of the (civilian) administration of the West Bank and Gaza. “They [the Islamic associations and the university] were authorized to receive money payments from abroad.”…” For full article and details here is the link:
    globalresearch.ca/articles/ZER403A.html
  •  
  • Yeliz Yildirim 1 year ago
    Why don't you question that a nation has to eat and drink or could have the medicine when they are sick as long as and in the amount of another state allows them to have. Is this the democracy understanding of "the only democratic nation in the Middle East", the Israel?
  •  
  • Ron Hughes 1 year ago
    It is illogical nonsensical semantics to say that Israel controls the perimeter around Gaza. Either Israel is operating a blockade of Gaza, in international waters, or it is controlling Gaza's territorial waters, or both. Either way, Israel's blockade of Gaza is illegal. Any annexation of Palestinian territory is illegal. Israel's alleged slant drilling of Gaza's offshore natural gas reserves would be illegal. Israel's piracy and murder in international waters was illegal. Israel has ignored the UN's and EU's calls for this medieval blockade to be lifted. All Israel has done it so ease the land blockade. If Israel was really a 'democracy' then it would recognise that Hamas won an election that EU monitors deemed to be fair. The problem is that doesn't suit Israel's aims to control the Palestinians, and/or the USA's aims to control the Middle East. Israel is a rogue nation, apparently hell-bent on ethnic cleansing the Palestinians from their land. Can you name any other 'democracy' that shells its neighbour - one of the most densely populated places in the world - with white phosphorous, sends snipers that shoot women and children, or bulldozes people's homes? Jimmy Carter was right, Israel is operating an apartheid system. Zionism=Racism.
  •  
  • Greta Berlin 1 year ago
    David Stein is a notorious apologist for the state of Israel and its war crimes. If I were all of you, I would not bother answering anything he posts, because they are all lies. He is paid by Israel to post
  •  
This conversation is missing your voice. Take five seconds to join Vimeo or log in.

Advertisement

About this video

MP4
00:05:23
  • 1280x720, 83.04MB
  • Uploaded Fri July 16, 2010
  • Please join or log in to download

Statistics

Date Plays Comments
Totals 4,027 7 5
Feb 14th 1 0 0
Feb 13th 1 0 0
Feb 12th 0 0 0
Feb 11th 0 0 0
Feb 10th 0 0 0
Feb 9th 0 0 0
Feb 8th 0 0 0