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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Ready To Set Sail

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Several American Jews are to board a US boat planning to join a flotilla of about 10 ships seeking to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza later this month, an organizer said Monday.

“We are seeking justice for Gaza,” Leslie Cogan told reporters, noting the boat will have 36 passengers, four crew and nine journalists when it sets sail for the tiny Palestinian enclave.

She said 28 percent of the passengers were American Jews.

“It’s important that Jews are in this boat… The Jewish lobby in this country is so powerful,” said New York labor attorney Richard Levy, himself Jewish.

“We cannot support an Israeli blockade which is morally and juridically unsupportable… No more people should be slaughtered in the name of the Jews.”

The US boat, The Audacity of Hope, will sail from Athens to join around 10 ships carrying some 500 to 600 pro-Palestinian activists from 22 countries, Cogan said.

The boats are expected to leave various Mediterranean ports around June 20 as part of the so-called “Freedom Flotilla II” aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade.

Cogan said the American ship will carry some 3,000 messages from the American people to the people of Gaza in what she called “a cargo of friendship, a cargo of peace.”

They will try and reach the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip a year after a previous attempt ended when Israeli troops stormed the lead ship and shot dead nine Turkish activists.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged all governments concerned by the plans to try to discourage the new flotilla from being launched out of fear it could degenerate into violence.

Source:  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jNeZo7GKzc7tcBVyKKnlxZ7TrBEw?docId=CNG.f6e4cf8f7bcbf9e0be98991770b9f79b.351

The Free Gaza Movement http://www.freegaza.org/

Freedom Flotilla  http://www.freedomflotilla.eu/

Flotilla Interactive  http://flotillaconnect.com/



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    • Anonymous

      Yikes!!! Which one of these do you think will sink first? Lusitania II ?

    • Anonymous

      So does this mean that if the jews fire/attack on an American ship with American non combatants or even worse kill a few(By mistake of course),would this be seen as an act of war considering the blockade is not leagle?

      And while I’m here,that Banky freaking Moon is a puppet with no moral backbone and shouldn’t have a job.

    • Anti-Zion

      “UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged all governments concerned by the plans to try to discourage the new flotilla from being launched out of fear it could degenerate into violence.”

      Then Ban Ki-moon should deal with the mad dog and not the people sailing with aid.

      Again double standards because the UN is taking bribes from the zionist bankers and if he does not fear forign aggression then why all the fuss about Iran and nuclear bombs when Iserail has 200 + ilegal nukes.

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