'The great military power of the Middle East now trembles at the sight of fishing boats carrying powdered milk.'
KernowDamo: Fifty aid ships are sailing straight for Gaza, the largest flotilla ever.
And Israel’s blockade is already starting to crack under the pressure.
Right, so Israel calls it a “security blockade.” Yet somehow the great military power of the Middle East now trembles at the sight of fishing boats carrying powdered milk. From Barcelona, over fifty vessels have set sail under the banner of sumud – steadfastness as that means - carrying activists, parliamentarians, celebrities and clergy. Their crime? Daring to deliver food and medicine to a strip of land where babies waste away, their parents unable to afford the hundred dollars a pack price tag of baby formula in Gaza these days.
Tel Aviv’s ministers are frothing, branding Greta Thunberg, Susan Sarandon, and even Nelson Mandela’s grandson as “terrorists.” You couldn’t write a crueller parody: a nuclear-armed state deploying drones and warships against civilians with cartons of baby milk and other forms of aid, but we know they’ve got form for this by now after the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s Conscience and the Madleen and the Handala. The Global Samud Flotilla, isn’t just one boat this time but 50, and it sails straight into this absurdity, daring Israel to expose its own siege yet again for what it really is: not defence, but the calculated starvation of a people. A genocide.
Right, so it was about a week ago now that an extraordinary sight unfolded in Barcelona. From the port, dozens of vessels unfurled banners of defiance and solidarity, slipping into the Mediterranean. These ships were not pleasure cruisers or commercial carriers as we know though.
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