THE message from Israel is clear: anyone trying to express solidarity with Palestine’s people — particularly the besieged and brutalised population of Gaza — will be forcefully stopped. This has been Tel Aviv’s policy for decades. On Monday, Israeli forces boarded the Madleen, a vessel carrying peace activists from several countries, who were trying to break the siege of Gaza by bringing a symbolic shipment of humanitarian supplies to the occupied Strip. But for Israel, the Palestinians are apparently not deserving of humanitarian treatment. That much has been proved by the genocidal violence the........

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