Israel is legal and justified
June 23rd, 2010
What did they expect? Israel wasn’t about to let a bunch of politically-motivated provocateurs breach its three-year blockade of Gaza under the propaganda smokescreen of “delivering humanitarian aid.”
Contrary to monotonous Palestinian-sympathizer yammering, neither the blockade nor its conduct in international waters is “illegal.” Naval blockades are legal acts of war, regulated by international law and custom, affirmed as such by Article 42 of the UN Charter, which specifically endorses blockading to “maintain or restore international peace and security.”