Freedom Flotilla 2 'Stay Human' gets moving

[alexa]

The "Dignity-Al Karama [1] "left this morning waters of Ile Rousse in Corsica. It will join in a few days the "Louise Michel" is currently in Greece.

40 The French, who will board the two boats in the eastern Mediterranean are ready. The appointment is given in Athens. In less than a week, they will be en route to the Gaza Strip. Thousands of dollars of equipment will be purchased by the campaign "A French boat to Gaza" and routed over a two international cargo fleet.

The two French ships will join the dozen boats that were present for this international initiative. They will bring 5,000 tons of material in the Gaza Strip.

It is thus 300 to 400 people from around the world who will board the urgency to proclaim the end of the blockade of the Gaza Strip and the respect of international law.

Given this historic citizen action, our states must be equal. They must act for Israel to let boats pass. The International Federation of Human Rights reiterated in a press release the "responsibility of the international community to take all necessary measures to ensure access for humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip."

We do what the international community should do. Our pressure is already bearing fruit. A few days before the start of the flotilla, Israel allowed the UN to import the materials needed for construction of 1200 houses and 18 schools in the Gaza Strip.

Gaza boat left France, kicking off the second Freedom Flotilla | Canadian Boat to Gaza

More worryingly Israel is threatening journalists

Furthermore, the letter says, "participation in the flotilla is an intentional violation of Israeli law and is liable to lead to participants being denied entry into the State of Israel for ten years, to the impoundment of their equipment and to additional sanctions."

Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass will be joining the flotilla, along with several dozen other journalists and several hundred activists from some 20 countries. Also joining the flotilla will be American writer Alice Walker, despite an American advisory that doing so could be a violation of U.S. law.

Israel warns foreign journalists: Joining Gaza flotilla is illegal - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

seems Israel has a fear of competition for reporting what happens.

It is disheartening that in this day and age peaceful protesters can not be certain that Western Governments will make certain their citizens come to no harm.

Alice Walker is certainly aware of the risk

AW; I’m thoughtful. Because we’re told it could be a quite dangerous journey. And so I am steeping myself in the wisdom and the images and words of people who in my culture have sustained us through dangerous journeys. Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Ella Baker, Fanny Lou Hamer, Black Elk, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth, Bob Marley. It’s good for me to feel that I am surrounded at all times by the presence of all these people who have understood American empire and who have stood against it.

AA: You’ve made the connection with the Freedom Rides that happened fifty years ago, in 1961. Can you talk about that?
AW: Yes, it means that the baton is being passed on to us of journeying to places in the world where people need us and where our governments are not helpful and in fact are destructive.
Just before my first year of college, the Freedom Riders came down to the South; I was living in Georgia under intense segregation that white supremacists and many black people assumed would last forever. They had become extremely complacent after a hundred years of brutality and subjugation of black people; and so when the Freedom Riders came down we didn’t expect them to survive.
Just as we didn’t expect Martin Luther King Jr. to live as long as he did. But we were very grateful because at least it assured us that someone outside of our own community objected to the repression that we endured every day and it meant a lot to us. It lifted our spirits, it gave us courage, it gave us hope.

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[ForeverYoung436]

Why is there no flotilla for the thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled into Turkey?

 

[alexa]

Why is there no flotilla for the thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled into Turkey?

If you believe there is need for a flotilla for that, start your own thread on it.

 

[P F Tinmore]

The people have to do what our government will not get off their lazy asses to do.

 

[docmauser1]

seems Israel has a fear of competition for reporting what happens.

There's enough palistaniacal liars as it is, of course. They don't really need to be there to produce drivel, of course.

 

[docmauser1]

Why is there no flotilla for the thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled into Turkey?

If you believe there is need for a flotilla for that, start your own thread on it.

Indeed, it's common knowledge arabs aren't worthy of any "flotillas".

 

[alexa]

seems Israel has a fear of competition for reporting what happens.

There's enough palistaniacal liars as it is, of course. They don't really need to be there to produce drivel, of course.

You don't believe in Free Press. Where do you live?

To try to prevent free reporting is one of the most obvious signs that there is something to hide and the reporters will be from all over the world, not just Palestinian.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

One of the benefits of being in an Israeli jail is the food is Kosher.

However, I doubt they have air conditioning. Or TV. So those who participate are going to miss out on the next five years of American Idol.

 

[Trajan]

they don't need a flotilla, maybe they just need an envelope, containing a check made up of all the funds from say Arafat and his cronies Swiss accounts?

 

[P F Tinmore]

they don't need a flotilla, maybe they just need an envelope, containing a check made up of all the funds from say Arafat and his cronies Swiss accounts?

The PA was set by Oslo to be the oligarchs of Palestine.

They got rich screwing their own people.

 

[alexa]

One of the benefits of being in an Israeli jail is the food is Kosher.

However, I doubt they have air conditioning. Or TV. So those who participate are going to miss out on the next five years of American Idol.

American passengers, crew and bios

PASSENGERS ON THE AUDACITY OF HOPE « USTOGAZA

 

[P F Tinmore]

PASSENGERS ON THE AUDACITY OF HOPE « USTOGAZA

Good list of decent human beings.

 

[docmauser1]

seems Israel has a fear of competition for reporting what happens.

There's enough palistaniacal liars as it is, of course. They don't really need to be there to produce drivel, of course.

You don't believe in Free Press.

Free Bullshit, that is.

Where do you live?

Here and there, of course.

To try to prevent free reporting is one of the most obvious signs that there is something to hide and the reporters will be from all over the world, not just Palestinian.

As we established earlier, they don't really have to paddle anywhere to produce drivel, unless there's a hidden agenda of a free cruise in the Med.

 

[docmauser1]

American passengers, crew and bios
PASSENGERS ON THE AUDACITY OF HOPE

Audacity of Dope.

 

[Trajan]

they don't need a flotilla, maybe they just need an envelope, containing a check made up of all the funds from say Arafat and his cronies Swiss accounts?

The PA was set by Oslo to be the oligarchs of Palestine.

They got rich screwing their own people.

is that an excuse? mitigation....? what?

 

[P F Tinmore]

they don't need a flotilla, maybe they just need an envelope, containing a check made up of all the funds from say Arafat and his cronies Swiss accounts?

The PA was set by Oslo to be the oligarchs of Palestine.

They got rich screwing their own people.

is that an excuse? mitigation....? what?

Just a fact. Abbas and his family and cronies are getting rich too. How do you think Fatah, who lost the elections, is still in power?

 

[ForeverYoung436]

The PA was set by Oslo to be the oligarchs of Palestine.

They got rich screwing their own people.

is that an excuse? mitigation....? what?

Just a fact. Abbas and his family and cronies are getting rich too. How do you think Fatah, who lost the elections, is still in power?

Abbas getting rich is no different than Qadaffi, Saddam Hussein, Assad, Mubarak, Arafart, the Saudi royals, and every Arab dictator/tyrant. Shouldn't be blamed on Israel.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

they don't need a flotilla, maybe they just need an envelope, containing a check made up of all the funds from say Arafat and his cronies Swiss accounts?

The PA was set by Oslo to be the oligarchs of Palestine.

They got rich screwing their own people.

is that an excuse? mitigation....? what?

Freudian slip. An inadvertent telling of the truth. He thought he would tell the truth once to see if it were painful or not.