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.
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?
International military has to end the Nazi regime in izrael and arrest the war criminals.
The zionist has been that way towards the world since their inception.That is the the nature of the beast.
We must thank america for all they have done for Palestine.
You mean "TO" Palestine not "FOR" Palestine?
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.
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!!
prosor takes the moral lhigh ground from a very deep pit
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…
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.
Warsaw 1938 = Gaza 2012
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.
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.
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?