Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: uno strano tipo di organizzazione umanitaria

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/06/of-course-free-gaza-is-not-humanitarian.html
Barry Rubin, and some other blogs, have been talking about the
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center's finding documents on
the flotilla ships that indicate that Free Gaza's aims were not
humanitarian, but political, and that they seemed to be instructing
their members not to explicitly show that they are de facto supporters
of Hamas in order to avoid apparent ties to terror.
The documents are almost certainly legitimate. Documents released by
ITIC are, for all intents and purposes, the same as if the IDF sent
them out. They work together and ITIC often publishes things before
the IDF does, but it does not do so without at least the IDF's tacit
approval.
The thing is that we don't need these documents to know Free Gaza's
aims. Even though they are registered as a "humanitarian
organization," in their own mailings they have made it very clear that
they are not - and they say this explicitly on their own web site:
GOALS
There is a time when silence is complicity and inaction is
unacceptable. Free Gaza is neither a "protest group" nor an aid
agency. Our mission and our work are political. We are a Palestinian
and international effort dedicated to the principle of non-violent
direct action. We are engaged in active, civil resistance against the
ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the violence this
occupation uses to sustain itself.
We do bring medicine, supplies, and doctors to besieged Gaza as we
can, but this is utterly insufficient. Although humanitarian aid is
very much needed, especially now in Gaza, focusing on humanitarian
efforts alone is a form of complicity in Israel's malevolent quest to
destroy the Palestinian people.
They have said, in an email to their supporters, that they are against
humanitarian aid!
While many potential funders recognize the significance of our work,
for various reasons they have not come through with funding. Most
prefer their financial contributions go toward to humanitarian aid for
Palestine. But Palestine is not a charity case! There are hundreds of
millions being pumped into Palestine by aid agencies that are unable
or unwilling to address the political issues, or by donor countries
that shirk their political, legal, and moral obligations, by throwing
money at Palestine.
This aid is paying for Israel’s occupation by alleviating Israel of
the responsibility to care for the people it occupies. We firmly
believe that activists and people who care about Palestine should not
be raising money for humanitarian aid but should focus on direct
action to confront the Israeli policies that leave Palestinians in
need of this aid.
So, yes, Free Gaza had already admitted to its own members a number of
times that it was not a humanitarian aid agency.
In fact, it does nto even advocate peace! In another mailing sent out
to members, Free Gaza said that they support a "third intifada":
The third Intifada being urged now has to be our intifada too. As
Israel steps up its destruction of the Palestinian people, we need to
step up our reconstruction of our resistance, our movements, of our
communities in our own counties, where so many of us live in
alienation and isolation. We need to be the third intifada - people
here need more and say repeatedly that they need more than the
demonstrations, because they are not stopping the killing here
....The third intifada needs to be a global intifada.
Even though it may be possible to read this last article as merely a
call to nonviolent resistance, the usage of the term "intifada"
indicates that Free Gaza had no problem with the methods of the first
two.
And, indeed, they have explicitly supported violent resistance too! As
yet another of their articles says,
On the Right of Resistance
We are often told that resistance is either unwarranted or impossible.
Liberal apologists for Israel, such as Thomas Friedman, are constantly
demanding that Palestinians lay down their arms, all the while
exhorting Israelis to pick them up in ever increasing acts of violence
and degradation.
...But even mainstream “peace” movements in the West try to
delegitimize resistance by calling on both Palestinians and Israelis
to renounce overt acts of violence, equating Palestinians who commit
suicide bombings with Israelis who send F-16s, D9 military bulldozers,
and Apache attack helicopters to level entire neighborhoods.
The problem is that the usually random and individual acts of violence
by Palestinians against Israelis are not equal to the myriad
structural oppressions and cruelties imposed on Palestinians through
Israeli government policies. No Palestinian fighter jets bomb Israeli
cities - because Palestine has no fighter jets....
Even immoral and self-defeating acts of violence against Israeli
civilians (such as some suicide bombings are) cannot be equated with
the daily humiliations, terror, and death that Israel inflicts on
Palestinians by deliberate policy.
This is not to say that any and all acts of resistance are acceptable.
Clearly they are not. But it grows tedious to continually hear well-
meaning, but otherwise clueless, Westerners try to equate the two
sides of this conflict. I am past tired of hearing white people
passively whine, or shrilly demand, “Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?”
With respect, just because some people have chosen to remain ignorant
of the long and deep history of Palestinian nonviolent resistance -
from the 1936 Boycott to Bil’in today - does not mean that it does not
exist.
The 1936 "boycott" resulted in the deaths of hundreds - it was hardly
non-violent, and Free Gaza knows that very well as they extol how
wonderful it was. Not to mention that they say here that some suicide
bombings are acceptable!
(Now would be a good time to take screen shots of these postings
before Free Gaza erases them.)
Of course Free Gaza is not a humanitarian group. It is explicitly
political; and it tacitly supports violence. These facts should be
brought up to every nation that has recognized it as a charity - and
given it tax benefits that charity agencies normally get.

 Barry Rubin
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