{"id":4817,"date":"2008-11-25T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T14:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2008-11-25T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T14:09:38","slug":"in-besieged-gaza-journal-of-a-voyage-by-gideon-spiro-a-call-for-civil-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4817","title":{"rendered":"In besieged Gaza, Journal of a voyage by Gideon Spiro : A call for civil disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gideon Spiro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Red Rag. Weekly Column, 14 November 2008<\/p>\n<p>In besieged Gaza (end October 2008). Journal of a voyage.<\/p>\n<p>Translated for Occupation Magazine by George Malent<\/p>\n<p>Original Hebrew: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagada.org.il\/hagada\/html\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=6292\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>27 October 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Mairead Maguire, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, called me and asked me to join the sea-voyage of the humanitarian delegation from Larnaca (Cyprus) to Gaza to break the Israeli closure and to bring medicine to the besieged city, I answered positively without hesitation. It was to be the second sea-voyage to Gaza, the first having arrived in August.<\/p>\n<p>I oppose the closure of Gaza because it is a collective punishment of a million and a half residents, including babies, children, women and old people, not to speak of sick people whom the siege prevents from getting medicine; a completely innocent population that is suffering because of no crime it has committed. Therefore I had no difficulty in agreeing to the invitation to be part of the international delegation. I also considered my participation to be important because I am a journalist, whose duty is to report from places to which most people do not have access.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kibush.co.il\/show_file.asp?num=30176\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gideon Spiro Red Rag. Weekly Column, 14 November 2008 In besieged Gaza (end October 2008). Journal of a voyage. Translated for Occupation Magazine by George Malent Original Hebrew: LINK 27 October 2008 When Mairead Maguire, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4817\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1fH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}