Who are these guys kidding? They don't give a damn about medical supplies or whatever the hell they have in these boats. They simply want to embarass the Isreali's. Their hatred knows no bounds when it comes to that country.
Gaza has the right to use of her access to international waters.
Do you have info that says it wasn't medical supplies? Or is everybody a liar but Israel?
Humanitarian? They don't even know what the hell that means IMHO. Once again, other dictatorships get the pass and the only democratic country in the Middle East is the bad guy? Give me a break. And there are those who actually believe all this BS. It's really quite annoying.
You are right about BS being involved, the blockade is not about 'security'. So is it now their right to have a blockade no matter what reason they use, perhaps none at all is needed.
JERUSALEM — As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of the Gaza Strip Wednesday, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory.
Israel imposed severe restrictions on Gaza in June 2007, after Hamas won elections and took control of the coastal enclave after winning elections there the previous year, and the government has long said that the aim of the blockade is to stem the flow of weapons to militants in Gaza.
Last week, after Israeli commandos killed nine volunteers on a Turkish-organized Gaza aid flotilla, Israel again said its aim was to stop the flow of terrorist arms into Gaza.
However, in response to a lawsuit by Gisha, an Israeli human rights group, the Israeli government explained the blockade as an exercise of the right of economic warfare.
"A country has the right to decide that it chooses not to engage in economic relations or to give economic assistance to the other party to the conflict, or that it wishes to operate using 'economic warfare,'" the government said.
McClatchy obtained the government's written statement from Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, which sued the government for information about the blockade. The Israeli high court upheld the suit, and the government delivered its statement earlier this year.
Sari Bashi, the director of Gisha, said the documents prove that Israel isn't imposing its blockade for its stated reasons, but rather as collective punishment for the Palestinian population of Gaza. Gisha focuses on Palestinian
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Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about security | McClatchy
See you next flotilla.
Pssssssssssst. There is definetly more than just one Democracy in the ME.
Bahrain??
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