And the argument about Manly’s waiver is largely academic anyway - because, either way, an Israeli judge likely will simply order the man deported. The United Nations’ own Palmer Report concluded in 2010 that Israel’s blockade of Gaza is a legal and appropriate means to protect itself. But on the legal front, he and his fellow activists have a losing case. It’s not clear what Manly’s precise intentions were. would basically mean he would be signing on to a lie. “The waiver implies that he has entered Israel illegally, but he did not intend to enter Israel. “He seemed to be in good spirits and he has refused to sign a waiver,” says wife Eva Manly. He hasn’t been released by Israel yet because he refuses to sign a statement acknowledging that he broke the law. One of the activists on board was former B.C. On Saturday, the latest Boat for Gaza stunt was broken up when Israeli forces peacefully boarded the Finnish-flagged ship Estelle. Given the Harper government’s hard line on Hamas and terrorism in general, an aggressive intervention on behalf of detained anti-Israeli activists must rank somewhere below “send fact-finding mission to Uighur region” on the government’s list of foreign-policy objectives. The Canadian Boat to Gaza group, for instance, regularly sends out communiqués demanding to know why Ottawa isn¹t doing more to help Gaza, or secure the speedy release of Canadian pro-Hamas activists and their equipment. The answer might be that these activists increasingly live in a delusional universe - a media bubble created by their own Twitter accounts. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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