From: target@batstar.net

To: psysr-disc@yahoogroups.com

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:40:32 -0700

Subject: Re: [psysr-disc] "Free Gaza" Boats Reach Gaza Strip

 

Hi

I work with a local group "Coalition for Justice and Accountability" in the Silicon Valley. We were an official endorser of the S.F. Ethical APA demo last year.

Two members of our group are on these boats. I'm glad they arrived safely in Gaza.

 

Andrew Phelps

 

 

Quoting Cde:

Israeli spokesperson Aviv Shiron stated: "We know who the passengers are and what they are bringing with them and so we have no problem letting them through."

What this spokesperson doesn't tell you is that many of these same activists on these two boats have been detained and harassed by the Israeli "defense" forces in the past for their peaceful activism. Israel refrained from detaining and harassing them in this instance only because doing so would create even more bad publicity for the apartheid state. Still, the arrival of the two boats is a symbolic victory.