P F Tinmore
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Civilians sending aid to civilians. Is that listed as a "belligerent act?" Oh the horror of it all.
That isn't the issue. Humanitarian aid can be delivered but by blockade law the ship can be inspected. If the ship does not allow an inspection then force is authorized.
Are you telling me that Israel did not already know what was on that ship? I would be disappointed in Israel if it did not have spooks on the dock checking the stuff as it was being loaded. That inspection thing is a smokescreen.
The Free Gaza movement believes that the blockade is illegal. No amount of blabber out of Israel is going to change that. It is interesting to note that of none the people who have broken or attempted to break the siege have been charged by Israel for that phony offense.
What Israel is up against.
Huwaida Arraf (born 1976 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Palestinian-rights activist and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led organization focused on assisting the Palestinian side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict using nonviolent protests. Arraf is married to Adam Shapiro, another ISM co-founder, whom she met while both were working at the Jerusalem center of Seeds of Peace, an organization that seeks to foster dialogue between Jewish and Palestinian youth.
Arraf, who is Christian, is the daughter of a Palestinian mother and father. Her father has Israeli citizenship. Her parents moved from the West Bank to be able to raise Arraf away from the violence there. She and her parents were able to visit Palestine every few years until Arraf was ten years old.[1] Arraf majored in Arabic and Judaic studies and political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also spent a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and studied Hebrew on a kibbutz.[2] Arraf later earned a J.D. at American University's Washington College of Law. Her focus was on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, with a particular interest in war crimes prosecution.
She currently chairs the Free Gaza Movement[3], the organization behind the Gaza Freedom Flotilla - a caravan of ships carrying Pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian aid that was organized to break Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Huwaida Arraf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia