felicity2010

It is naive to expect there is any significant change in the Israeli policy, especially from the Likud party. There may be some "restraint" from the commando but this serves to cool down the heat instead of any indication of positive move in the present blockade of the Gaza. The ship's name Rachel Corrie was an American girl who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003 when she tried to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in Rafah. It is sad to read some of her writing still apples today : "I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive,"