Some 18 months after the Israeli assault of 2009, the Palestinian territory of Gaza sat in almost total isolation at the south eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Surrounded by the Israeli separation barrier, Gazans are cut off from Palestinian residents of Israel and from Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank. Gaza is also largely separated from Egypt by the Israeli barrier along the Philadelphi route, which constitutes the border with its southern Arab neighbor. There are currently only three official points of entry into and exit from Gaza and Mubarak’s Egypt tried to block the underground tunnels connecting Gaza and Sinai by a subterranean security barrier. Given the elaborate system of fences and walls, it has become common to refer to Gaza as the “world’s largest prison” as Noam Chomsky did in a January 13, 2009 lecture, and the phrase is a powerful metaphor for the conditions of isolation lived by the Palestinians of Gaza. At one time and for a long time, Gaza was a passageway between the African continent and the Levant, a coastal strip of land that opened onto the world in all directions. But since the partition of historic Palestine in 1948, the Gaza Strip has suffered from the neglect and brutality of those who have dominated it, first the Egyptians from 1949 until 1967, and then the Israelis from 1967 to the present. The rise in popularity of Hamas in the late 1990s and in the first decade of this century was largely the result of the notorious misrule of Gaza by the Palestinian Authority. Despite the Israeli redeployment from Gaza in 2005—evacuating the settlements and the military bases—the territory remains subject to Israel domination. This background is crucial to understanding the internationalization of Gaza, confirmed once again by the Israeli raid on the Freedom Flotilla. This paper argues that the idea and image of Gaza have become over the last 2 years central to international organizing in support of Palestinians. In addition, it proposes that despite its isolation, Gaza is the site of global efforts to connect with Palestine. To illustrate this argument, the paper discusses the collection essays edited by Moustafa Bayoumi and published under the title Midnight Mava Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict (2010).