SPECIAL ANALYSIS: The Freedom Flotilla is scheduled for the summer of 2020, and, like most of the 35 previous attempts, it will likely to be intercepted by the Israeli navy. By @RamzyBaroud#Gazamintpressnews.com/road-gaza-free…
For years, civil society groups across the world labored to destabilize this horrific status quo. They organized, held vigils, wrote letters to their political representatives and so on. To no avail.
Frustrated by government inaction, a small group of activists sailed to Gaza in a small boat in August 2008, succeeding in doing what the United Nations has failed to do: they broke, however fleetingly, the Israeli siege on the impoverished Strip. …ksoncivilianboatstogaza.wordpress.com/2017/06/03/31-…
This symbolic action of the #FreeGaza movement sent a clear message to Palestinians in occupied Palestine, that their fate is not only determined by the Israeli government and military machine;
that there are other actors who are capable of challenging the dreadful silence of the international community; that not all Westerners are as complicit as their governments in the prolonged suffering of the Palestinian people. middleeastmonitor.com/20191202-new-f…
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