Ship once owned by Latvian company involved in Gaza relief effort

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Susan Rachels

My grandmothers family was once Latvians. My mother came to Israel in 1948 she was 20 years old, to start a new life. She came with a man she intended to marry. Arabs caught him and she had to identify him, cut into small pieces and left in a sack. She was traumatized as it was, loosing 25 close family members who were murdered by Latvians in Libau in 1941, because they were Jews! She went home in chock. I came here hoping to grow a family free from antisemitism. 3 months ago I send my son to serve in the Navy. He is only 19 years old. His uniform make him look so grown up, but he is still a schoolboy to me. He is one of the soldiers that was supposed to do a routine check of the boats coming into Gaza. Like Israel do with good right, since enormous amounts of weapons are smuggled into Gaza, on all kind of boats. The soldiers were not armed. I can say that for sure because my son had not gone trough the shooting training yet and had not been given a weapon yet. They were aggressively attacked by so called humanitarian peace loving foreigners carrying all kind of Knifes, hooks and Iron poles. My son was sick that day, luckily for him and his family. But his friends on the same course got badly injured. Do not lie to Latvian readers and tell them this was a peaceful action. The ship was full of Muslims that were not born in the countries they carried passports from. I have to send my 19 year old boy out to prevent,that Missiles and other weapons get smuggled into Gaza. Weapons that could kill thousand of innocent people in this country. We only want to live in peace! Why are we not allowed to protect our self. What would you do if you had to live next to a country where every family has one or more terrorist and are proud of how many people they have killed? Have you forgotten how Gaza citizens chaired when Osama bin Laden send two aeroplanes into the Twin towers and killed 6000 thousand innocent people? We cried in Israel! Have you forgotten how many innocent people terrorists have killed in buses or in supermarkets here? A girl in my sons class was killed by a car bomb parked outside a Falafel place, when she was 11. The young soldiers that went on board this ships would have been ripped to pieces like my mothers boyfriend if not someone had acted. If the people onboard had nothing to hide, why were they so aggressive? It hurts me to see how old antisemitism in your country still lives on and you so easily agree with murderers.

20 Jun 2010 (Israel)