[This is just a stepping stone… watch and see how activists from around the world begin to mobilize against Israeli interests. The massacre of the Freedom Flotilla was the last straw and I believe that people are just fed up and ready to act.] SF Chronicle: Hundreds of demonstrators, condemning Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, picketed at the Port of Oakland on Sunday and may have prevented an Israeli cargo ship from unloading for the day.
Two shifts of longshoremen agreed not to cross the picket line, leaving nobody to unload the vessel.
“Our objective was to boycott this ship for 24 hours, and we succeeded in doing that,” said Richard Becker, with the ANSWER Coalition, one of the groups that organized the protest.
The demonstrators first gathered before dawn at Berth 58, where a ship from Israel’s Zim shipping line was scheduled to dock Sunday, first in the morning then in the afternoon, protesters said. It eventually arrived around 6 p.m., Becker said, but by that time the dockworkers had agreed not to show up to unload the vessel.
lol massacre? That’s halarious since massacre was simply planned, initiated, and was done according to the plan by the people who were so-called “massacred”.
Don’t you honestly feel ashamed of yourself by misrepresentation of material facts like this one? Don’t you feel ashamed of yourself by playing with terms such as “massacre” in order to achieve your goal? Like seriously, how could you look at yourself in the mirror when the real victims of “massacre” would completely hate you for mis-using terms like that? Don’t you think that you are mis-using terms in a way that is almost insulting to the real victims of such acts? Don’t you think you are allowing terms like “massacre” to become ordinary terms by destorying and diminishing the level of the crime at point? Seriously—-> don’t you see what you are doing here?
You don’t see it as propaganda?! After all the clips, all the peliminary investigations, you seriously believe that a term such as “massacre” will do justice here?
Don’t bother answering them because …
It is absolutely proper to call it a massacre. They didn’t go there and commit suicide for some devious political ploy. They went to break a barbaric and illegal Israeli imposed siege of the Gaza Strip and Israel enforced that siege with supreme lethality killing 9 civilians who sought to defend themselves when Israeli commandos unjustifiably raided their ship in international waters. Done.
By the way, Arash, next time you comment without using your real name, Im going to edit your name myself. I know you’re IP address and you will not be allowed to use false names to come and defend your outrageous views as if you are more than one person agreeing with yourself! haha.
Everyone else is free to post under alias user names but not you since you do it for foul reasons!
Supreme Lethality: hahahahahahha, they initially used paint guns! PAINT GUNS!!! Sooo supreme in its lethality. It wasn’t until after those terrorist who threw a commando overboard and kidnapped 4 soldiers that soldiers went in with live fire. Check your facts.
International Waters: I believe you do attend law school, open a maritime law book and check the part about a blockade and then read under the part that says a country has a right to engage a vessel or ship if it believes that it is intending to violate the blockade. If you read it closer, it says nothing about international water or not. Oh yeah here is the quote: ” a maritime blockage is recognized as a legitimate tool during a time of armed conflict. A blockade may be imposed at sea, including international waters, so long as it does not bar access to the ports and coasts of neutral states. International maritime law clearly states that when a maritime blockade is in effect, no boats – including both civilian and enemy – can enter the blockaded area. Any vessel that violates or attempts to violate a maritime blockade may be captured over even attacked under international law.”
So, now you are making up Maritime Laws to fit your twisted agenda?
Or wait: are you trying to insert “self-defense”: but against if you check the facts and TESTIMONY FROM THE SHIP CAPTAIN, you will see, five other ships surrendered carefuly and peacefuly and nothing happened. However, this one, thanx to barbaric nature of people who support such cause from Turkey who never fail to behaive any different, they acted barbaricaly to the soldiers landing on the ship by throwing them overboard.
“Self-defense” is not applicapable in cases of the socalled “victim” being the initial aggressor. Ok, now you are going to argue that Commandos showed aggression by just landing on the ship, lets for the sake of the argument, “self-defense” will not be applicable when disproportionate force has been used (isn’t that the argument that people like you always use against Israel). Israelis came down w/ a paint gun and they were attacked w/ knives and fire bombs.
I know you love to close the argument by saying done, but seriously is this truely your sense of fairness?
You throw words around without absolutely knowing the meaning or its effect, or you do know it but you simply use it to fit it to your twisted agenda, either way you are badly mistaken in your answer.
Let’s see how you would twist words again instead of fact.
Arash, how many times must I tell you, do not use fake names pretending to be different and numerous people in order to make the same argument falsely trying to validate your one-sided point of view.
Also, please do not reference the law. If you are going to repeatedly fail the bar exam, then you are not fit to employ the law in your arguments.
For example, you said: “A maritime blockage is recognized as a legitimate tool during a time of armed conflict.” You said this without realizing that you shot yourself in the foot. Israel, in its efforts to collectively punish the impoverished people of Gaza, has gone against exactly the law you use loosely reference (do you remember the last time you invoked the law and were refuted so badly that you went back and deleted your own comment?!?!?!)
What conflict? You mean the one-sided bombing campaign that turned the Gaza Strip into rubble in the winter of 2008-09? Do you mean the 3 year long embargo that has resulted in stunting the growth of the children of Gaza?
You are a hateful man that will seek unconvincingly to justify any Israeli policy, regardless of how detestable it is by basic norms of human decency.
What captain’s testimony? I have long documented the words and testimonies of dozens of people attesting to the barbarism of the Israeli raid. All it requires of you to find out the truth is a basic search. Go up on the sidebar and click on the “Freedom Flotilla” and dozens of reliable sources will come up.
And if you still have doubts, just ask yourself why Israel refuses an impartial international investigation into the massacre? Is it because you feel the UN is anti-Semitic.
The problem w you and like-minded Zionist-terror apologists is your selectivism. You denounce the UN as a anti-Semitic when it wants to investigate Israeli atrocities or when the UNSC passes a resolution that rightly condemns Israel’s fascistic policies towards the indigenous community, yet you invoke the UN as the basis of your legitimacy when it suits your argument, i.e. “The UN voted to establish Israel when the Arabs refused to negotiate!”
In sum, Israel had no business raiding those ships just like it has no business laying a 3-year siege of the Gaza Strip turning it into a major concentration camp, just like it has no business building a wall in the West Bank that seizes massive amounts of Palestinian territory, just like it has no business settling the West Bank to begin with.
The world is finally waking up to the racist and murderous Israeli policies. You sir, are on the wrong side of history.
Arash the overweight occupation soldier, how are you? I showed your picture to a girl friend of mine recently and asker her to honestly make an assessment. She said “Jesus, who are these people?”, in reference to you and your hideous friends. I think it was one of the ones of you on the beach where you look like a beached whale, with the face of a Tolken character.
So now you have come to invoke the law, have you? I guess you are now an international law expert, even though you cant legally practice in the state of California because you have now failed the Bar exam, twice! Third times a charm, right? Talk about wasted money, and time, and the dissapointed family who had such high hopes, only to be crushed because he is either to lazy or too stupid to study. Notice Arash NEVER tries to refute that he failed the Bar, bc it is something we can all EASILY check. Pathetic.
So, it looks like Arash and his horrible grammar have returned to blogging, even though Arash should be studying so that he doesnt dissappoint his parents for a third time, which he will.
In Arash’s irrational rendering, (Arash seems to think you still go to law school, Pouya. In fact, he says so.), he failed to understand that a blockade is itself an act of war. So, Arash, agrees then, that Israel has made an act of war, and war should be waged on it. Glad we are all in agreement. But war, needs more than knives and clubs, so I assume Arash is fine that we use slightly more forceful means.
What a shock, Arash is unable to respond. Run away, coward.
Yeah, Arash, be a man. Don’t run and hide because you can’t handle the truth. Just face the facts, man up, and change your ways. Don’t flee ❗
Now that Bush is no longer in power, the anti-war people have shifted all their attention to protesting Israel. I guess they have never heard of Afghanistan.