Sadly, the Gaza blockade busters can achieve little

Sir,

Sadly, the good people who sailed to Gaza have not actually achieved that much; the Israelis simply decided that intercepting these vessels would merely give the blockade busters heightened publicity. 

Will the next vessel sailing to the open prison known as Gaza be unhindered? Sadly not. 

It has been nearly 100 years since the foundations for the ethnic cleansing (an Israeli historian’s words) of Palestine were laid and the policy of collective punishment developed. 

A brave show by a small group is not going to deflect the continuing mistreatment of the Palestinians by the Israeli State.

Jonathan Reddaway, Nicosia
 

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