Ship to Gaza

I feel very strange reading everybody's posts yesterday and only idahoswede mentioning Israel's attack on the so-called Freedom Flottila, which was on it's way to Gaza with food, medicine, clothes, school books etc, while still on international water and where according to the latest figures 19 people were killed.

While I do not have any personal friends on boats, quite a few of my friends do and besides we all believed that people and states will behave with a minimum of decency, not engage in what in juridical terms is piracy and murder.
While it does matter to me personally if the crew or passengers on the boat attacked the Israeli soldiers with iron pipes and knives it doesn't matter from a legal standpoint, it was self defence when the ship they were on ws being boarded by hostile forces on international water. And it will not help in any way, just strengthen the unreasonable voices of violence.

Ther are on the other hand plenty of witnesses telling about how the soldiers shot people lying in their bunks. And there are still no life signs from PhD Mattias Gardell, scholar of History of religions or of his wife PhD Edda Manga, scholar in the History of Ideas. None of those are violent people.

We went to the manifestation here in Gothenburg yesterday and it was some relief of the sorrow and tension. And it was a very dignified protest with speakers from the whole political spectrum and a focus on the politics of the Israeli government, not on the Israeli people who are not responsible for this, except insofar that they actually voted these people into office.

ETA: I'm not complaining, I really wasn't, I was just surprised, since the whole of Sweden is full of it.

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While it won't do anything for the people already killed or their families I am happy to hear that doctors Manga and Gardell are alive and in prison in Israel.