Fightback

Today's news that the Rachel Corrie has been seized by the Israelis won't be a surprise to workers here who have been following the events since last weeks massacre. The demonstrations today in Dublin, Istanbul and London among other places illustrate the revulsion at this state terror. This report from a comrade from the Middle East looks at the events following the attack on the flotilla and the background to those events.  

In the middle of the night of the 31st of May, 64 km off the coast, Israeli commandos rappelled down from helicopters onto the 6 ship flotilla. Activists say they boarded the ships firing. The Israeli government decided to use deadly force to maintain their blockade of the Gaza strip, provoking waves of protest. These events have exposed the policy of Israeli imperialism to the masses everywhere: Gaza is a ghetto, kept in starvation conditions, and no one may interfere. This will have effects across the world, even in Israel itself.