Bob Lovelace, former chief of the Ardock Algonquin First Nation, indigenous activist and Profesor in Global Development Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario
Bob Lovelace explains that the main reason he made the risky voyage attempting to reach the people of Gaza was to bring awareness to the world that 1.8 million in Gaza are subjected to the administration of Israel, are not free to come and go nor to receive goods. It is a prison camp. It is settler colonialism.
Lovelace counters the Israeli claim that the Israeli capture of the Swedish Flagship Marianne was uneventful. This was a Swedish ship in international waters (150 nautical miles from Israel territory) and was under no obligation to obey Israeli orders to stop their engines. They were accosted by a ship labeled "coastguard" and four warships were in the vicinity. The Israeli defense forces came aboard and tasered Charley, Gustav and Bob and then drug them down the stairs before kidnapping them.
They were interrogated at the Ashdod port prison. Lovelace's tablet, phone and camera were taken and kept, so no possible evidence of their brutality could be documented.
Lovelace verifies that their boat has been inspected each time they made a stop in Europe. There was no connection with Hamas or any other political organization. They were in contact with NGOs trying to help Palestinians develop their economy in very difficult situation.
Interview with Robert Lovelace
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