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The international community is right to condemn Israel for its military action against a flotilla of ships carrying aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip in which a number of people were killed.
The Israeli Ambassador to Ireland repeatedly referred to the deadly shells which daily land in his country as some sort of justification for the act. Dreadful though this obviously is, it is no justification to board vessels sailing in international waters and by this act triggering the deaths of a number of people.
One has to look beyond the political and military differences between Israel and Palestine. Sure, there are the problems caused by the firing of missiles into Israel which, in any event, are aggressively countered by the Israelis.
It is the people of Palestine that are suffering from the Israeli blockade and to interfere with a ship that was carrying aid to them - assuming that this was aid and not munitions - is unacceptable.
The Israeli Defence Minister called the relief effort - largely organised by Turkey - a ‘political provocation’ by anti-Israeli forces. Relief aid has been called many things but not so far as I know as political provocation!
The ships have been escorted to the Israeli port of Ashdod and the world waits to see what will happen to the aid that was carried by it.
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The international community is right to condemn Israel for its military action against a flotilla of ships carrying aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip in which a number of people were killed.
The Israeli Ambassador to Ireland repeatedly referred to the deadly shells which daily land in his country as some sort of justification for the act. Dreadful though this obviously is, it is no justification to board vessels sailing in international waters and by this act triggering the deaths of a number of people.
One has to look beyond the political and military differences between Israel and Palestine. Sure, there are the problems caused by the firing of missiles into Israel which, in any event, are aggressively countered by the Israelis.
It is the people of Palestine that are suffering from the Israeli blockade and to interfere with a ship that was carrying aid to them - assuming that this was aid and not munitions - is unacceptable.
The Israeli Defence Minister called the relief effort - largely organised by Turkey - a ‘political provocation’ by anti-Israeli forces. Relief aid has been called many things but not so far as I know as political provocation!
The ships have been escorted to the Israeli port of Ashdod and the world waits to see what will happen to the aid that was carried by it.
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