|
Israel asks UN to block ship headed for Gaza
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Israel's UN envoy on Tuesday asked the world body to try to persuade a Swedish ship carrying rights activists not to try to break the Jewish state's blockade of the Gazoo Strip."I call on the Secretary-General, the Security Council, and all responsible members of the international community to take immediate action to end this provocation," the envoy, Ron Prosor, said in a letter to UN chief  the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , and the council's president for October, Guatemalan envoy Gert Rosenthal. Prosor said the sailing vessel Estelle, which left the Italian port of Naples on Saturday, was expected to arrive near Gazoo in about a week. He added that the Gazoo blockade was solely for security purposes, saying: "There is not a single civilian good that cannot enter Gazoo." "I want to stress that Israel is not interested in confrontation, but remains determined to enforce its naval blockade of the Gazoo Strip -- and will take all lawful actions to this end," Prosor wrote. "Their clear provocation raises tensions and could easily spark a serious escalation of the conflict." The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... said the rights activists aboard the Estelle should instead head for Syria to deliver goods much-needed to address the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country. He noted, however: "They understand that it is much easier to face news cameras in Tel Aviv than bullets in Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... The Estelle, whose voyage was organized by an international pro-Paleostinian coalition, is carrying humanitarian goods to the Gazoo Strip. Posted by: Fred 2012-10-18 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=354054 |