proof israel's blockade on gaza is illegal .

[dr.x]

from Douglas Guilfoyle, a maritime legal expert .
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2...723151689.html
the siege need to be fully removed, not partially "eased" .

[squealpiggy]

If the blockade is legal then the interception is legal, as I have been saying all along. The question is whether the blockade is legal. Guilfoyle doesn't think so, but the legality of the blockade falls outside his field of expertise. In other words it's debatable.

I can see signs of bias in his statement though. A blockade must be publicised and proportionate. He does not think that it was well publicised. This is clear bias. The presence of the blockade has been international news since its inception, and the flotilla knew that it was in place: In fact breaching the blockade was their purpose... It would be highly dishonest to suggest that they didn't know the blockade was in place. His second point may well be valid. Is the blockade proportionate to the threat?

Here you are able to argue that Israel are in the wrong... Having said that the blockade was in response to almost non-stop rocket attacks against its civilians. Granted these attacks were seldom successful but the intent to cause civilian casualties was definitely there.

So in short there is a case to argue. If the blockade is legal so is the interception. I'm glad Al Jazeera have conceded this point.

[Pretty Boy32 *]

Squealpiggy is gay?

[squealpiggy]

Squealpiggy hates Muslims because he feels they don't approve of his gay lifestyle.

He has no mercy or compassion for the children of Gaza. He's the archetypal shallow, superficial ****sexual. He only worries about what man he's going to sleep with the next weekend.

His flippant, bitchy attitude is evident in most of his posts.

He's become worse the past year or two because he's going through a kind of mid-life crisis, feeling insecure about getting old and not being able to get a man.

And this has exactly what to do with what I posted?

[squealpiggy]

You lie and claim the blockade is legal, and the attack and killing of the activists in international waters was legal.

It was not international waters it was the exclusive economic zone outside Israeli territorial waters. And the source used by Al Jazeera states that if the blockade is legal then the interdiction of the flotilla was also legal under maritime law. Don't trust me on that, trust the expert in Maritime law used as a source by Al Jazeera.

Guilfoyle: Whether or not Israel had a right to intercept the ship on the high seas depends on whether it was engaged in a legal blockade. A blockade is a recognized tool of warfare that could allow the stopping and search of a ship on the high seas, but there are a number of requirements. There needs to be an armed conflict; the limits of the blockade need to be defined and properly publicized; and most importantly, a blockade should not proceed if it violates the principle of proportionality, if it inflicts excessive damage on the civilian population in relation to the concrete military advantage expected.

If those requirements were met, then yes, a ship could have been intercepted on the high seas, if there was a suspicion it was attempting to breach the blockade.

You know full well both were illegal, but your insecurity about Muslims disapproving of your ****sexual lifestyle causes you to always side against them.

There is a case to be made for the blockade itself being illegal and then, as mentioned by Guilfoyle "ipso-facto the boarding was illegal". But there is also a case to be made for the blockade to be legitimate.

You approve of a blockade that's a collective punishment of over a million people because you hate and fear Muslims.

Siege takes toll on Gaza children

You're a gay.

[Orde Street]

Squeelpiggy is the typical dumb liberal who is all in favor of letting muslims flood into his country even though they will have him beheaded for being queer if and when they have the numbers to take over.

What party do you normally vote for in Canada Piggy?

[squealpiggy]

Squeelpiggy is the typical dumb liberal who is all in favor of letting muslims flood into his country even though they will have him beheaded for being queer if and when they have the numbers to take over.

What on earth are you dribbling on about?

What party do you normally vote for in Canada Piggy?

Conservative. Fuck you, ****!

[venom1]

Squeel Piggy is just a gay ***git, shouldn't you be in a gaybar or something ****

[Orde Street]

What on earth are you dribbling on about?

I thought for sure you'd be a liberal or NDPer.

Conservative. Fuck you, ****!

A gay conservative? Oy Vey!

Doesn't matter. Your "conservative" party is just as much in favor of letting in millions of muslim immigrants just like the other 4 biggest parties.

[squealpiggy]

I thought for sure you'd be a liberal or NDPer.



A gay conservative? Oy Vey!

Doesn't matter. Your "conservative" party is just as much in favor of letting in millions of muslim immigrants just like the other 4 biggest parties.

I just think it's fascinating that you'd characterize me as some sort of dhimmi given that the other cretins who try and vilify me say that I hate muslims.

There is no "conservative" party in Canada, as such.

We have the PC party.

That's the politically correct Progressive Conservative party, which supports gay marriages (they even had an openly gay MP Scott Brison) and they unconditionally support Israel.

Cunney supports the National Socialist Party.