{"id":15746,"date":"2011-07-05T11:13:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15746"},"modified":"2011-07-05T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:13:18","slug":"richard-falk-sabotaging-flotilla-ii-waging-war-against-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15746","title":{"rendered":"Richard Falk: Sabotaging Flotilla II: Waging War Against Civil Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Richard Falk<br \/>\n4 July 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reports that two of the foreign flagged ships planning to be part of the ten vessel <a title=\"Gaza flotilla raid\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.64113,33.56727&amp;spn=0.05,0.05&amp;q=32.64113,33.56727%20%28Gaza%20flotilla%20raid%29&amp;t=h\">Freedom Flotilla<\/a> II experienced similar forms of disabling sabotage creates strong circumstantial evidence of <a title=\"Israel\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667%20%28Israel%29&amp;t=h\">Israeli<\/a> responsibility. It stretches the imagination to suppose that a  sophisticated cutting of the propeller shafts of both ships is a  coincidence with no involvement by Israel\u2019s Mossad, long infamous for  its overseas criminal acts in support of contested Israeli national  interests. Recalling the lethal encounter in international waters with  Freedom Flotilla I that took place on 31 May 2010, and the frantic  diplomatic campaign by Tel Aviv to prevent this second challenge to the <a title=\"2007\u2013present blockade of the Gaza Strip\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2007%E2%80%93present_blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip\">Gaza blockade<\/a> by peace activists and humanitarian aid workers, such conduct by a  state against this latest civil society initiative, if further validated  by incriminating evidence, should be formally condemned as a form of  \u2018state terrorism\u2019 or even as an act of war by a state against global  civil society.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/richardfalk.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/04\/sabotaging-flotilla-ii-waging-war-against-civil-society\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Sabotaging Flotilla II: Waging War Against Civil Society&#8221; by Richard Falk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Richard Falk 4 July 2011 The reports that two of the foreign flagged ships planning to be part of the ten vessel Freedom Flotilla II experienced similar forms of disabling sabotage creates strong circumstantial evidence of Israeli responsibility. 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