[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Israel Can't Intimidate Humanitarian Ships Sailing to Gaza

[fred]

Green Friends,

If there is a way for the GPUS to publicly give moral support for the 
safe journey of the "eight vessel Freedom Flotilla" that will help break 
Israel's illegal siege of Gaza,  I suggest that he GP media team be 
given the Green light.

Fred Duperrault

P.S. Please note, below, that Mehmet Kaplan, a Swedish parliamentarian, 
is a Green.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Israel Can't Intimidate Humanitarian Ships Sailing to Gaza
Date: 	Tue, 25 May 2010 23:15:54 -0700
From: 	John O. Sutter <josutter at juno.com>
To: 	Sutter John O. <josutter at juno.com>



This article was published on 14 May.  Since then Israel has threatened 
most of the countries from which a flotilla of ships have departed to 
break the illegal Israeli siege of Gaza, which Israel has illegally 
turned into a concentration camp.  Among the sailors are progressive Jews.
John


        Israel's Intimidation Tactics Won't Stop Us: First Ship Sets
        Sail for Gaza!


        Free Gaza Team



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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

London – 14 May 2010 – At 22:45 local time tonight, the MV Rachel 
Corrie, a 1200-ton cargo ship, part of the eight-vessel Freedom 
Flotilla, set sail from Ireland on its way to the Mediterranean Sea. 
There, ships from Turkey and Greece will join her, then sail to Gaza.

This past week reports from Israel have indicated that the Israeli 
authorities will not allow the Freedom Flotilla to reach Gaza with its 
cargo of much-needed reconstruction material, medical equipment, and 
school supplies. According to Israeli news sources, clear orders have 
been issued to prevent the ships from reaching Gaza, even if this 
necessitates military violence.


The Free Gaza Movement, which has launched eight other sea missions to 
Gaza, confirms that Israel has tried these kinds of threats and 
intimidation tactics before in order to try to stop the missions before 
they start. "They have not deterred us before and will not deter us 
now," said one of the organizers.

Ship to Gaza -- Sweden, a Freedom Flotilla coalition partner, together 
with parliamentarian Mehmet Kaplan (Green Party) yesterday asked for an 
audience with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Carl Bildt, to 
discuss what measures the Swedish government and the European Union will 
take to protect the Freedom Flotilla’s peaceful, humanitarian voyage. 
Earlier this week during a meeting with the European Campaign to End the 
Siege on Gaza – another coalition partner, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyib 
Erdogan expressed his support for "breaking the oppressive siege on the 
Gaza Strip...which is at the top of Turkey’s list of priorities."

Coalition partners, Ship to Gaza – Greece and the Turkish relief 
organization IHH, stressed that the ships, passengers, and cargo will be 
checked at each port of departure, making it clear that we constitute no 
security threat to Israel.

Israel’s threats to attack unarmed civilians aboard vessels carrying 
reconstruction aid are outrageous and indicative of the cruel and 
violent nature of Israel’s policies towards Gaza. The Freedom Flotilla 
is acting in line with universal principals of human rights and justice 
in defying a blockade identified as illegal by the UN and other 
humanitarian organizations. Palestinians in Gaza have a right to the 
thousands of basic supplies that Israel bans from entering, including 
cement and schoolbooks, as well as a right to access the outside world. 
The Freedom Flotilla coalition calls on all signatories to the Fourth 
Geneva Conventions to pressure Israel to adhere to its obligations under 
international humanitarian law, to end the lethal blockade on Gaza, and 
to refrain from attacking this peaceful convoy.

For more information:
Free Gaza Movement – Greta Berlin - +33 607374512
ECESG – Mazen Kahel - +33 1 46 81 12 92
IHH – Ahmet Emin Dag – +90 530 341 1934
Ship to Gaza / Greece – Vangelis Pissias - +30 697 200 9339
Ship to Gaza / Sweden – Dror Feiler - +46702855777

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition is comprised of: Free Gaza Movement (FG), 
European Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza (ECESG), Insani Yardim Vakfi 
(IHH), Ship to Gaza Greece, Ship to Gaza Sweden, and the International 
Committee to Lift the Siege on Gaza, with hundreds of groups and 
organizations around the world supporting the effort.

www.freegaza.org <http://www.freegaza.org/>
www.savegaza.eu <http://www.savegaza.eu/>
www.ihh.org.tr <http://www.ihh.org.tr/>
www.shiptogaza.gr <http://www.shiptogaza.gr/>
www.shiptogaza.se <http://www.shiptogaza.se/>


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