U.N. Report finds Israel “summarily executed” U.S. citizen on flotilla
Glenn Greenwald - Oct 1, 2010
Last week, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights released a comprehensive report detailing its findings regarding the May, 2010, Israeli attack on the six-ship flotilla attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Israel-blockaded Gaza. The report has been largely ignored in the American media despite the fact (or, more accurately: because) it found that much of the Israeli force used “was unnecessary, disproportionate, excessive and inappropriate and resulted in the wholly avoidable killing and maiming of a large number of civilian passengers”; that “at least six of the killings can be characterized as extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions“; and that Israel violated numerous international human rights conventions, including the Fourth Geneva Conventions (see p. 38, para. 172).
Even more striking in terms of U.S. media and government silence on this report is the fact that one of the victims of the worst Israeli violations was a 19-year-old American citizen. As Gareth Porter documents in an excellent article at The Huffington Post, the report “shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos.” In particular:
The report reveals that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was filming with a small video camera on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara when he was shot twice in the head, once in the back and in the left leg and foot and that he was shot in the face at point blank range while lying on the ground.
The report says Dogan had apparently been “lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time” before being shot in his face.
The forensic evidence that establishes that fact is “tattooing around the wound in his face,” indicating that the shot was “delivered at point blank range.” The report describes the forensic evidence as showing that “the trajectory of the wound, from bottom to top, together with a vital abrasion to the left shoulder that could be consistent with the bullet exit point, is compatible with the shot being received while he was lying on the ground on his back.”
Tags: Assassination, Furkan Doga, Israel
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October 6th, 2010 at 7:06 am
I’m sorry, but consider the SOURCE of this report and which group is PREDOMINANTLY represented on the make-up of this group, as well as the current level of global anti-Semitism overall. I just don’t believe that of the Israelis at all, UNLESS, and I rather doubt it until proven so by an UNBIASED source, one went rogue. I grant that can and does happen even among civilized societies, and their militaries. However, when a predominantly Muslim populated UN organization tells me something negative about the Israeli people, without unbiased backup to show me that is true, I don’t accept it as such. That’s when I stand on my Missouri birthright and say: “show me!” In the first place, that entire flotilla was an organized plot to provoke the Israelis over the blockade of Gaza, and NOTHING more or less; it wasn’t about delivering aid to Gaza at all, really, and it was an ARMED group who went with the intention of creating an incident to garner public “sympathy” for their “plight” in Gaza, which is a fundamental lie in the first place, since plenty of supplies make it in; they simply aren’t distributed evenly by the Hamas-controlled and dominated leaders in Gaza, and only those who are good “Hamas party members” get any of them! Might want to rethink this position a bit here. Or do you really WANT Shariah law to dominate the world???
October 6th, 2010 at 8:48 am
“do you really WANT Shariah law to dominate the world?”
Theocracy is abhorrent in whatever guise, as is totalitarianism and despotism, and racism. Israel is a racialist State. Period. Democracy schmocracy.
“global anti-Semitism”
Canard. Criticism of any State is legitimate. Governments often display ruthless tendencies the moment we turn our back. And the racist State of Israel is as ruthless as they come. In Israel it’s the fist of the Jew over all others - be it Palestinian, Muslim, or Christian. Doubt it - on their turf - and the fist becomes a boot becomes a bullet.
I see bias alright. It is plain as day. Was it necessary to put the words sympathy and plight in quotations? Do you feel better about expressing such blatant human disregard?
October 6th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Sandra Lee Smithstien
Joo much?
October 7th, 2010 at 3:57 am
The Huffington Post …sorry can’t go down that rabbit hole. Arrianna Huffington is a nut job and her paper reflects her deranger world view.