Ship to Gaza and the Freedom Flotilla received a threatening fax from the Israeli maritime authorities today, 30 May, declaring that Israel has, without further ado, expanded its “security zone” to 68 nautical miles, effective immediately.

In an email to Ship to Gaza, Professor Richard Falk, one of the world's leading experts on international law, commented on the message: “Israel's unilateral establishment of a 68-mile security zone without any legitimate security basis for apprehension is a deliberate further unlawful provocation, encroaching on the freedom of navigation on the high seas.”

Falk adds that since John Ging—director of U.N. relief operations in Gaza–has called for humanitarian aid to be brought into Gaza by sea, the Freedom Flotilla should arguably be considered an “ultra-innocent”, humanitarian mission.

apparently all international countries have condemned it except USA so far,

"Zionism is a force more dangerous than Islam" - Illan Pappe

Its a country which has displaced and basically ethnically cleansed the areas for its own people, rewriting its history to suit them and giving them the power and economic standpoint to dominate the Palastinians.

Its pretty fucked up; but its becoming more and more known about in contrary to the 90's views that Israel was a poor weak country being constantly under threat of attack by the Middle East - Hell, its become apparent that Israels military is more advanced and from a expenditure standpoint, more invested than any of its surrounding Countries put together...

A proper peace agreement is needed with land sharing and power sharing for Palestinians and Israelis; any other solution just will lead to conflict.

But Aye, just another example of Israels domination and over-exertion to hold onto a power they claim is theirs.

Oh and I gotta say, I feel its better explained through ethnics than religion - This is basically like the USA destorying the American indians to inhabit their land, hence why the USA cant say nothing - then they would seem like hypocrites!

The USA isn't very likely to stop backing up Israel though, with the right wing (pretty much) fundamentalist christians having gained a lot of power during the Bush Administration. They see Israel as the holy land, destined for the Jews coz its in their holy texts. I don't think Obama will do much, because the last thing he wants is pissing of the conservatives in his country even more.

There is actually no correlation between congress votes for pro-Israel bills and the christian fundemental right in Washington - a fact which shocked me tbh; i was gonna use that as an argument for the religious contextulisation of the conflict in my exam last week till I found out

The problem is that they feel that land is divided equally, however palestine ended up with the desert and no sea ports ( except gaza strip, which pisses off Israel no end) while Israel got the areas which contain the areas biggest exports etc. It can be peacefully negotiated, but the first step is for Israel to admit its guilt in the actions - which of course it wont until the Zionist generations are out of power - young israelis are slowly becoming opposed to the situation; so its a matter of time, and the efforts of the people from both sides tbh...

You know its fucked up when the Turkish government says thats its wrong.

...and yet no apology for the Armenian genocide..hmm

IMO the Jews are almost doing precisely with the palestinians what the germans did with them. Being hypocritical is what I call it. They only miss the concentration camps......

Yes, but sending in commandos to do naval jobs is also somewhat "Overkill". And also shooting with live ammunition. Using teargass on women. Shooting from point blank range. Last time i checked these things are a bit excessive. I also have seen al jazeera news, and it states that the Israeli commandos 1st started it(also why did the western news wait for 24 hours before making any statement?)

And there were multiple ships in the convoy. Those others shat their pants and immediately surrendered when thay saw what happened on the lead ship(yes people, the Turkish ship was the main ship). This also makes me think it was done deliberately, just to make a statement to the other ships and make them surrender without a hitch(why waste time on multiple ships, if you can do it just once).

Furthermore, if these are commandos and aiming at people who weren't standing far away, I wonder if they couldn't shoot their legs OR use teargass 1st. Killing 16 people in this process is somewhat...... inhumane....

1. Like I said - these people shouldn't have been there in the first place.

2. Also, commandos are usually a unit in the navy, so there's nothing strange in them being there - they are better trained in small scale operations and crowd control too, normal soldiers might have simply mowed everybody down, since they wouldn't have had access to paintball guns or whatever.

I blame the Nazi's.