On 2009-Jan-01, at 00:51, Kevin Callahan wrote: > If the boat entered Israeli controlled waters and appeared to be a > threat, that would be one thing - > but if the boat was attacked in international waters, that's another.
From a little googling, I gather the point of McKinney's "international waters" statement is this: Israel has a BLOCKADE around Gaza, ie. Gaza does not control its own territorial waters. Hence Gaza is still under siege, is occupied, is oppressed. The activists' ship knows there is a blockade, and deliberately tries to break it to highlight its existence. Well they have succeeded in that aim. I for one didn't know there was a blockade. But I'm not surprised either. When Apartheid was founded, coincidentally in 1948 along with Israel, mini-sub countries were created inside South Africa. But these townships were in no way real countries, just like Palestine is in no way a real country. So arguing that Gaza doesn't control its own waters is a sub-issue.... Palestine doesn't control its own destiny anyway. SO WHAT'S THEIR POINT? And Palestine will never get to control its own destiny so long as a number of its people and leaders stick to their code of honor that says that REVENGE against Israel is their one purpose in life. Even if that's revenge in the form of little pathetic rockets. I guess they hope that they can get things to escalate. Personally I think Israel should never have been created there, and when the early migrants were getting attacked, they should have taken a hint and pissed off, but now that Israel has been established as a strong institution, people, and economy, it is simply a matter of conquest and whomever has the bigger brains and the biggest balls will win. One of the tactics in this conflict is to play victim. The Palestinians are not victims. To call them victims insults their honor. Stefano _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
