Israel Braces for Pro-Palestinian ‘Flytilla’

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Israel Braces for Pro-Palestinian ‘Flytilla’

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An El Al jetliner waits to be loaded at Los Angeles International Airport before taking off for Tel Aviv, Israel.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists are expected to arrive at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport Friday in a “flytilla” that the organizing campaign “Welcome to Palestine” says is simply an invitation to supporters to visit friends in the West Bank and Gaza. An ever-jittery Israeli government, however, isn’t taking any chances.

Israel’s public security chief already has denounced those planning to take part as “hooligans,” and the media reported that hundreds of extra police are being deployed at the airport. —BF

The Guardian:

Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has taken a personal interest in the “flytilla” threat, visiting airport officials before a trip to Romania and insisting that “every country has the right to prevent entry of disrupters and provocateurs at its borders”.

Israel’s public security minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, had already denounced those planning to participate as “hooligans and radicals”.

“The same hooligans who tried to break the law and disrupt the peace will not be allowed into Israel and will return to their home countries,” he said this week.

“I want to make it clear that as a sovereign, democratic country, we will not allow public propaganda, incitement and illegal demonstrations to occur, not at the airport and not in any other place.”

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By adam, July 14, 2011 at 6:38 pm Link to this comment
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give every family , ownership of a home,they will
provide wealth ,and peace,love.Pride will follow. And
let them start small business,to start civilian’s
working.

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By omop, July 9, 2011 at 6:43 am Link to this comment

When will the world accept the Jews as a “special people?”

According to Gary Ackerman, congressman from Long Island, and
quoted in the Jerusalem Post, professing his Zionism.

“The Jews are a “separate” people, Jewish legislators from around the
world must represent Israel, Palestinian statehood initiative is
devastating…While many differences exist among Jewish
parliamentarians, the concept of ahavat Yisrael– literally, “love of Israel”
– is common to us all. It is for this reason that 55 Jewish
parliamentarians from 22 countries have assembled in Jerusalem under
the auspices of the World Jewish Congress….

“I don’t believe that increasing attacks on Israel’s right to exist and
efforts to label its acts of self-defense “war-crimes” or even “crimes
against humanity” are actually rooted in a belief in international law, or
a principled evaluation of Israeli military operations.What I believe is
really driving most of these claims is a deep-seated and
stubborn refusal to see Jews as a separate people.”

Israel/Jews in a sense are above international convention.

[excerpted from mondoweiss.net]

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By PatrickHenry, July 8, 2011 at 1:55 am Link to this comment

Great article Mr. Crow.

Thanks

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By TomJ, July 8, 2011 at 12:55 am Link to this comment
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Sometimes I’m thinking Zionism equals Fascism, in the narrow sense that it
includes a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group over another.
Also there’s the paranoia.

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By Rodney, July 7, 2011 at 9:56 am Link to this comment
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Martin Luther King once said ” The greatness of America
is the right to protest for rights”. I guess that
doesn’t apply to that system of aparthied we call
Israel.What are they afraid of democracy? If the United
States were true to its word they would force Israel to
come to the table and negotiate a real and lasting
peace. If were are really trying to promote freedom in
the Arab world we must begin with Israel. But the fact
of the matter is that Netanyahu doesn’t want peace. He
wants to keep building in the west bank and keep is
system of apartheid going all supported bt the USA

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By felicity, July 7, 2011 at 9:17 am Link to this comment

This is new. Residents of Gaza are to be put into
quarantine? Or maybe the residents have been designated
as lepers, people who have been rejected or ostracized
for unacceptable behavior, opinions, character or the
like - anathema, outcasts. Either way, exposure to
them is apparently a threat to their Israeli jailers.

(Actually, probably no more than all that tourist trade
flowing into Gaza when it could be flowing into
Jerusalem?)

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