State Terrorism and the New World Order. "Man's Stupidity has no Bounds"
The attack on Gaza by Israel, in December-January 2008/9, which left nearly fifteen hundred Palestinians dead and an estimated five thousand wounded, many maimed for life, and the subsequent blockade, denying rebuilding or repair of decimated infrastructure, was the flotilla's genesis.
Also included were ninety eight generators, ninety pre-fab homes, six hundred tonnes of iron bars and one hundred and fifty tonnes of iron for building - with a glimmer of childhood normality in sixteen entire playground kits, sports equipment, footballs and basketballs, for a child population considered uniquely traumatised. Volunteers, including Israelis, who risked the journey of compassion, were from forty countries and included thirty politicians, with Hanin Zoabi an Israeli parliamentarian (now with other Palestinian law makers receiving death threats) sixty journalists; professionals, medical practitioners, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Edward Peck, former US Ambassador, US Colonel Anne Wright, who resigned in protest at the Iraq invasion.
According to Greta Berlin, an organizer and spokesperson, twenty percent of passengers were over sixty, the oldest eighty eight, the youngest under two.
At the organization's media centre in Cyprus, the four manning the ever ringing telephones, twenty four hours a day,had a total age of two hundred and ninety six. Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 85, Greta, 69 and a 76 and 66 year old. Strange "hard line terrorists", as Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev has told the BBC., were attempting the voyage to beleaguered Gaza's 1.5 million residents.
"By sailing directly to Gaza, outside of Israeli waters, with cargo banned illegally by Israel ... the flotilla (was) exercising international law and upholding article 33 of the Geneva Convention which clearly states that collective punishment is a crime against humanity", stated Dr Mona El Farrer, in Gaza.
World leaders commenting on the Israeli attack expressed: "shock"; "condemned", "deplored", cited a "terrorist act", a "massacre", a "grave act", and "state terrorism."
International law expert Anis Kassi cites: "cold blooded assassination", and Sabah al Mukhtar, President of the Arab Lawyers Association, says it: ".. is the exact definition of piracy."
Coincidentally, President Barack "Nobel" Obama, "Middle East Peace Envoy", Charles Anthony Lynton Blair, QC., and Israel's spokespeople, originally used the same inadequate word, limp and lacking as as their integrity and spine : "regret."
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19663
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