Update from Aid Ship Sailing to Gaza: Activists Vow to "Win Through Solidarity" Amid Israeli Threats

[Uncle Joe]

We get an update from the Madleen, the Freedom Flotilla ship sailing to Gaza with vital humanitarian aid for Palestinians. Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila, one of 12 people on the ship, says "spirits are high" despite the constant presence of drones overhead and threats from the Israeli government. "Palestine is now the strategic place for all peoples to unite and fight against oppression, exploitation and the destruction of nature," says Ávila. "People's power is the ultimate power, and love and solidarity can beat any hateful, racist and supremacist ideology, like Zionism." Earlier this week, the ship made a detour to respond to a mayday call to help dozens of migrants aboard a deflating vessel. The Madleen is expected to reach Gaza on Monday, though Israeli officials have said they will not allow it to land.

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[Goddessartist]

1. Excellent

Bless them and safe travels. Israel has no right to attack this ship

[AloeVera]

2. It has no right to starve people either, or bomb civilian tents, homes and schools etc

But it has the "might" and doesn't hesitate to use it against innocents. A nation that defies the UN, the ICC/ICJ etc and now even some Western governments in its eagerness to further starve and terrorize the people of Gaza in order to aid it in its plan of ethnic cleansing, is not a nation that is going to worry about any "rights".

Israel uses the concept of "rights" both selectively to apply only to itself and as a cudgel that everyone else must agree to - or be called an "anti-semite". So Israel has the "right to exist" (but not Palestine) and "right to defend itself" (but not Palestinians under occupation), right to its ancestral homeland" (but not Palestinians) "right to self-determination" (but not Palestinian Citizens of Israel).

Unsaid but amply demonstrated is Israel's "right" to kill and starve Palestinians and expel them from their native lands. Because the Land of Israel/Greater Israel...God gave it... and apparently God sent the U.S. to make it happen.


Edited to add:
So I am very worried for the flotilla. Israel has already said they will not be allowed to land. So it's going to do whatever it wants, as always - no one has stopped it yet. It's frightening.