Comments on: Watchdog: New U.N. Flotilla Probe Marred by Predetermined Verdict

By: Tim Haughton

Tim Haughton — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:58:03 +0000

Wow, I never saw these responses. As I had articulated elsewhere, the blockade was an is illegal as it failed to meet the required humanitarian standards. This is now generally accepted within scholarly circles.

This has since been backed up by the UN.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:45:55 +0000

Tim:

You better learn the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea, 12 June 1994.

It specifically states that “a blockade is a legal method of warfare at sea”.

And as far as I understand the situation… an area that continuosly fires rockets into a neighbour country… is the facto at war with that country.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:55:51 +0000

Tim – what consitutes a “legal” blockade in your view? You continue to make some of the most banal “arguments” on the web…

By: Gábor Fränkl

Gábor Fränkl — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:53:36 +0000

Tim, emotionally-driven loaded terms discredit you and your standpoint. Thank you.

By: Tim Haughton

Tim Haughton — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:41:18 +0000

It’s a little bit of a disingenuous position. The illegality of the blockade was well understood before the massacre aboard the humanitarian flotilla. The right to board vessels is granted only in legal blockades, not illegal ones.

So it wasn’t a question of guilt or innocence, it was a question of what Israel was guilty of. Technically, state actors can’t be guilty of piracy. So what was it?

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:33:04 +0000

The UNHRC are a joke. We should not worry though. They are burying themselves with this catalogue of stupidity and anti semitism and they will soon be disbanded. A new organization of democratic countries must follow to eradicate the world of these despots and terrorists.