GOOD WIND! The flotilla is on the move now, and so does Israel.
We all remember Freedom Flotilla 1 and the 31st May 2010 when Israel attacked civil activists and killed 9 of them. We all remember thereafter the global outcry this incident had spurred, even from Israel's closest allies such as the UN, US, UK and France. This is not because their conscience dictated so, but because they had been taken by surprise by the scale of attack on the flotilla.
This is why, few weeks ago, Ban Ki Mon stated that these flotillas do not carry any humanitarian significance. Later it is Clinton repeating the same and topping this by giving Israel the Green light to Attack Flotilla 2. This time the anti-global civil society movement led by the UN, which is supposed to promote global civil society, is preparing everybody to absorb the shock which might occur on the hands of the lunatic state of Israel.
If these flotillas are of no significance, then why Israel's senior politicians are huffing and puffing whenever they are reminded about them?
Israel has always claimed that this flotilla is a clear infringement of its sovereignty. Here we have a legitimate reason to ask which sovereignty Israel is talking about? Israel claims that it has withdrew from the Gaza Strip and it claims that it is no more an occupied territory, and therefore the Geneva Convention of 1949 doesn't apply to Gaza. This is dangerous because Israel treats Gaza as an independent state when this suites it and launches full scale war against its population. If we look at the case from this Israeli perspective, so which sovereignty Israel's is claiming will be breached.
Israel is scared of the extent of damage this could cause to its image in the Arab region and particularly before the Arab citizens. The success of the flotilla will send a clear message that peaceful activism can achieve results which are equally significant to military action, even that there is no need to contemplate military action in the presence of civic activism. If this message is combined with what the Arab region is witnessing through peaceful revolutions then Israel's worst dreams have just started.
I wish that the flotilla will reach the cost of Gaza peacefully and open a new era of global civil activism versus state's uncivilised war machine. This flotilla will expose the atrocities taking place in Gaza due to Israel's blockade, which in turn will expose the true face of Israel which pretends to be a democratic state. Moreover, if the flotilla reaches Gaza it will send a clear message that the process of decision making at the global scale has moved away from the old rotten arena of the UN to the new alternative of global civil society.
2 comments:
What do you mean "Stay human?" What is human about holding a young man isolated from his home and family? Help free Guilad Shalit!!!!! Keep human! Save yourselves! Freedom Flotilla for Guilad Shalit!!!!!
Be fair! Israel will help, but not those who dream to eliminate it!
Truely, I don't like to see any prisoner anywhere let alone isolated from seeing their family. But I believe Israeli gov is contributing to the isolation of Jilad by refusing the many offers by Hamas to conduct prisoners exchange. I am confident that people of Gaza will welcome any flotilla which will carry the objective of Freedom for Shalit. Do you know why? because there are around 10.000 palestinian prisoners in Israel many of them serving 30,40,50 times life sentences, there are 500 children prisoners between 12 yrs and 28 yrs old, there are 37 women prisoners many of them gave birth in prison.
Its worthwhile to draw your attention to the 1.5 million palestinians imprisoned in the biggest prison in the history of humanity in the Gaza Strip with 40000 homeless due to the israel war in 2008-09. Don't you think that all these deserve a flotilla??
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