The group insists they were not in Israeli waters. In a media advisory, the arrests were characterized as kidnapping.
“This is an outrageous violation of international law against us,” said McKinney in a press release issued by the Free Gaza Movement. “Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip. President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that’s exactly what we tried to do.”
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/30/israel-captures-peace-activists-en-route-to-gaza/
You need to understand that Israel's governing philosophy is Orthodox Judaism, which --to my evolving understanding of things-- is a distinct religion, a sickness which appears to have gained doctrinal primacy over True Torah Judaism perhaps a couple thousand years ago. It has as one of its precepts that non-Jews are not actually human. This is not hyperbole. The devout nutjobs who provide the religious guidance to that nation's government truly, honestly conceptualize non-Jews as non-human beasts to be enslaved. As such, Israel is the territorial expression of a psychic illness. An Orthodox Jew is mentally disturbed simply by entertaining malignant ideas which run counter to his basic human programming. He's a nutjob because he's been traumatized since birth by a layer of death-based programming "bolted on top of" his basic human programming. His natural, non-zero-sum gaming strategy --one in which he innately knows that cooperating with other humans provides for the benefit of all-- has been replaced by a clan-based, zero-sum gaming strategy --where he believes that the pie is only so big.
Among the family of nations, Israel is a sickness. It was founded upon the principle that Palestine was a land without people --(untrue)-- for a people without land --(untrue)-- and that everyone hates them so much that the Holocaust should be sufficient moral authority to ethnically cleanse the territory of its rightful inhabitants. But, see, the hitch here is that some little geniuses thought they could engineer the moral authority to claim that land by getting rid of those pigs of theirs who were worth less than one-six-millionth of a cow in Palestine. That doesn't play well when everyone finds out about it. (And hence the big money poured into lobbying governments to ban examining the evidence: because a criminal investigator, opening that old file for a second look, could easily pin the tail on the proper rabbinic donkey.)
Jews have no claim whatsoever to that territory. The European Jews who now inhabit it have no more ethnic connection to that land than I do. And Orthodox Judaism derives from the Talmud, a Babylonian collection of colored feathers and dung piles. It is not Judaism. It is a sickness. Not to mention that Jews were expressly forbidden to occupy that land prior to the Messianic Redemption. No state was to be created by sword.
The "Jews" who now inhabit Palestine have defiled it. They have ruined that land by their simple presence and they have ruined the names of Jews worldwide. They're the teenage crack whore: they ruined the family name.
Israel is a dead nation because it was founded upon lies. What those little grunting boneswingers don't understand is that when a thing does not adequately "cohere" with its source informational structure, it doesn't last long. (The drapes don't match the carpet, so to speak.) Frauds have no power. And in Israel's case, when it becomes known that it is a satanic abomination --its being a monument to Moloch, Moloch being the Canaanite version of the Egyptian Set, or Satan-- an abomination created through a pagan human sacrifice of some of their animals, all decent peoples of the world will barf, wipe their chins, and shun that fanged, mewling abortion of a nation.
(And we're still not even contemplating Israeli intelligence's involvement in 9-11, nor the concept of Amalek, a race to be completely destroyed, which is considered by these Orthodox nutjobs to be Palestinians. So you understand now the phosphorus and the shooting of children in the head and the starving of Palestinians.)
Israel is a sickness, plain and simple. It was founded against Judaic commandments, it was founded upon lies, and it was founded upon the fried backs of some of their subhuman, Talmud-rejecting pigs.
No accord can be reached with Israelis because the nation is the territorial expression of various psychic illnesses which postulate that all other clans are not really human and that they are to be warred against.
Israel is the single most disgusting thing this world has ever known. Why do you think they spend so much of their adverrtising dollar on full-page ads in the New York Times? It's like trying to portray downtown Detroit as Key West.
The weakness in a zero-sum gaming strategy which posits that members of other clans are animals is that it seduces members of the first group to act in a subhuman manner, in a manner which is inconsistent with basic human programming.
Interestingly enough, those who started out every bit as human as everyone else came to cease acting like humans through their regarding of everyone else as subhuman.
That's what you get for holding supremacist beliefs: you lose your humanity. Israel has converted itself into, essentially, a nation of grunting animals. Palestine is now a barnyard, populated by those who regressed from humans into pigs, all by their own hand.
Whose fault is that? Does everyone hate you so much that you converted yourselves into animals?
