Political Quotes

“Twelve miles, to be precise. Greta Berlin said, no, the aim is to break the blockade. Now, a lot of people, a lot of countries were saying, the President of France, ``How dare they intercept ships on the high seas.'' ``This is piracy,'' said Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey. Well, the law is very clear. If you are fighting someone--and Israel is fighting Hamas; Hamas controls the territory and has declared war on Israel and said that war will not stop until Israel is destroyed, maybe a ceasefire from time to time, but this war must continue until Israel is destroyed, as far as Hamas is concerned--then you are subject to blockade. That is a tactic of war. And in a blockade, you can board the ship, you can, in fact, sink the ship if that's the only way to enforce the blockade, in international waters as long as it's clear that it's going to a blockaded area. And that's from the U.S. Naval Commander's Handbook. But why was this being done? Because, we are told, they have to break the blockade. Why do they have to break the blockade? Because the overall issue is that we must end the Israeli occupation. This is the real sin. This is why so many people think that Israel is wrong: Because it must end the occupation. People forget how the occupation started. The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank started when Israel resisted a war of aggression aimed at its extermination in 1967. But we are ignorant of history. History started 5 years ago. Israel wants to end the occupation.”