Barry Rubin: The Flytilla Farce And The International Campaign For Repressive Dictatorship and Against Israel

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After the failure of the Gaza flotilla, Western leftists and their Arab, often Islamist, allies took up a new way to harass Israel, dubbed the “flytilla.” Hundreds of protestors sought to fly were to fly into Israel’s sole international airport and demonstrate along with radical Israeli supporters.


Why is Israel facing such constant and increasing harassment? Not only is Israel a democratic country but over the last two decades it has made many concessions: making an attempted peace deal with the PLO; withdrawing from territory in Lebanon, the West Bank, and all of the Gaza Strip; admitting tens of thousands of Palestinians into the area and turning over political control to the Palestinian Authority; paying money and providing guns to the PA’s security agencies; and seeking a comprehensive peace that included a Palestinian state with its capital in east Jerusalem (notably in 2000).

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Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley), and The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan). His latest book is Israel: An Introduction, to be published by Yale University Press later this year. You can read more of Barry Rubin's posts at Rubin Reports, and now on his new blog, Rubin Reports, on Pajamas Media

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