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Michael Byers
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Ottawa Citizen
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Date
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June 3, 2010
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http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/They+shouldn+have+been+there/3104730/story.html
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"Last November, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued his own report, which also focused on the indiscriminate nature of the blockade and called for it to be lifted. He wrote: "In particular, the Government of Israel should allow unimpeded access to Gaza for humanitarian aid and the non-humanitarian goods needed for the reconstruction of properties and infrastructure." If Goldstone and Ban are right, the Israeli blockade itself is illegal, and so, too, is any attempt to enforce it against ships carrying nothing more than humanitarian aid."
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This item argues against the position Israel was justified in its actions on the topic Gaza flotilla raid.