Israel Threatens Aid Ship Seeking to Deliver Food to Gaza
Ambassador Demands UN Intervention to Prevent Food From Being Delivered
The Finnish-flagged Swedish aid ship Estelle is looking to near the Gaza Strip in the next few days, capping off a summer-long sail around Europe to raise awareness for the blockade. The ship is loaded with food aid.
Which has Israelis typically furious, but none moreso than Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor, who penned a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon claiming the Swedes on board the ship were less moral than Viking raiders and demanding international military intervention to prevent the food from being delivered.
This has sparked some criticism, claiming Prosor’s bellicosity is drawing undue influence to the single ship, while Israeli officials say they intend to militarily keep the ship away from the Gaza coast, as they so often have with past ships.
But that military action is going to happen under considerably more scrutiny than it normally would have because of both Prosor’s letter and this week’s revelation that the Israeli military has been trying to limit the number of calories of food allowed into the Gaza Strip.
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MoT
October 18th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
After the latest revelations on how the Israelis "count calories", in their quest to put all Gazans on a concentrated weight watchers program, the calls to stop the diet "busting" ship should be self evident. So who really is the "biggest loser" after all?
Rudolph
October 19th, 2012 at 12:23 am
International military has to end the Nazi regime in izrael and arrest the war criminals.
Augustbrhm
October 19th, 2012 at 1:31 am
The zionist has been that way towards the world since their inception.That is the the nature of the beast.
Augustbrhm
October 19th, 2012 at 2:06 am
We must thank america for all they have done for Palestine.
jacksplace58
October 19th, 2012 at 2:37 am
It's a sailing ship, just run horizontal lines from mast to mast and see how many Israeli commando's you can snare! They'd have to either shot the masts or sink the ship.
curmudgeonvt
October 19th, 2012 at 3:57 am
Yes, that's right…get someone else to do your dirty work….I sense a pattern here…Been getting more and more bad press lately? Can't imagine why? Perhaps because the rest of the world is getting fed up with your deadly games? Restricting the calories going into Gaza? "We're not trying to kill them…" Really? And I thought Mengele was dead… Instead of a camp, it's now an entire region…talk about Chutzpah!!
pendulum
October 19th, 2012 at 8:56 am
prosor takes the moral lhigh ground from a very deep pit
Raymond
October 19th, 2012 at 9:54 am
Zionism = Terrorism ..period. If there was ever a country that deserved the most severe blowback for its constant obsession with state terror it is the Zionist entity. What a disgusting place…
for sight
October 19th, 2012 at 11:01 am
It is going to be hell on we Americans if we ever run afoul of our master Israel. Don't think for a minute that we would be treated any better than the Pals are treated.
Ben
October 19th, 2012 at 11:29 am
Warsaw 1938 = Gaza 2012
Budd Weiser
October 19th, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Maybe, if the those on the ship allow Isreal to count the calories on the food they're transporting, they'll be allowed safe passage.
Budd Weiser
October 19th, 2012 at 12:34 pm
You mean "TO" Palestine not "FOR" Palestine?
John Ellis
October 19th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Aggravate — Aggravate — Aggravate
They should drop anchor just outside of the territorial waters of Gaza and send out an SOS what with Israeli Commandos about to commit an act of piracy on the high seas.
Which will of course accomplish nothing, so then they need to start a Occupy Gaza movement, get over 100 sailboats to drop anchor next to it and then aggravate Israel to no end.
John_Muhammad
October 19th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Too bad Finland isn't a NATO nation, otherwise if the Israelis board or fire upon the ship we'd be obliged to attack Israel, huh?