A lot of ink has been spilled over the Israeli-Turkish scandal in the wake of the Israeli raid on the flotilla. One thing keeps getting repeated: "Nothing will be the same any more". That was repeated by the Turkish PM Erdogan himself, as well. I think his words summarise the situation in the Middle East very properly. And things are of course much
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Then again... USS Liberty. I suppose if you can get away with that you can get away with anything.
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A blockade which the United Nations in Gaza, John Ging, has publicly called on the international community to defy?
That's a blockade that's worthy of breaching.
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And it'll never look good enforcing blockades in international waters. Just look at Australia's implementation of refugee policies eight or so years ago..
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This said, international law does have a criteria above national law simply because it requires sovereign actors to come to an agreement, which is always more challenging than a single assertion. And we can note that Israel is a signatory to the Geneva convention.
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What does one do about it? Well, the person who originated the idea, Michael Shaik, I suspect would say "send more boats"!
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Gaza blockade: Iran offers escort to next aid convoy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/06/gaza-blockade-iran-aid-convoy
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Should be interesting what happens next.
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