{"id":7213,"date":"2010-06-10T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T23:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2010-06-10T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T23:30:22","slug":"new-footage-of-the-aid-ship-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/new-footage-of-the-aid-ship-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"New Footage of the Aid Ship Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Israel&#8217;s military confiscated the vast majority of the video footage and photographic evidence of last week&#8217;s attack on the Mavi Marmara,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F06%2F04%2FEDC31DQ215.DTL\"> Iara Lee<\/a> managed to smuggle roughly 15 minutes of never before seen footage out, which was released today. <\/p>\n<p>The video shows a largely calm civilian crew in the lead up to the attack and the panic that ensued. It also shows two people from the ship using the infamous &#8220;slingshots&#8221; to fire at the Israeli helicopter. Mostly the scene breaks down from there, with people in life jackets running around and the occasional wounded person. <\/p>\n<p>Though one 15 minute video can never possibly be an all-encompassing view of what really happened, it certainly underscores passengers&#8217; claims that they weren&#8217;t &#8220;preparing for battle,&#8221; and nowhere to be seen are the mythical 50 Turkish soldiers, which Israel at one point claimed were hiding on board armed to the teeth.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12429821&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/12429821\">Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara, May 31st 2010 \/\/ 15 min.<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/culturesofresist\">Cultures of Resistance<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Israel&#8217;s military confiscated the vast majority of the video footage and photographic evidence of last week&#8217;s attack on the Mavi Marmara, Iara Lee managed to smuggle roughly 15 minutes of never before seen footage out, which was released today. The video shows a largely calm civilian crew in the lead up to the attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7215,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions\/7215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}