Indian ship joins the ''audacity of hope'' against Israel's anti-Gaza blockade campaign
Victor Mendolsa
Jul. 26, 2010

An Indian vessel is set to join a new international campaign named ''The Audacity of Hope'' to press for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.

According to media reports, An e-mail circulated by pro-Palestinian activists in the US said an American ship named after US President Barack Obama's autobiography, will join a flotilla of other vessels from Europe, Canada, India, South Africa and the Middle East in an additional attempt to break the Israeli naval blockade in early autumn.

American Right-wing columnists immediately seized on the involvement of Khalidi, whom they portrayed as a friend of Obama who was supporting Hamas.

The Columbia University History Professor, a US national born to a Palestinian refugee, Khalidi said "Given the national-religious hierarchy which determines what the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) can do to whom, the fact that the ship is American will make it harder to deal with it as the Mavi Marmara was dealt with," he said referring to the Turkish aid ship raided by Israeli Naval commandos on May 31, on which nine activists were killed in the ensuing fight. Khalidi characterised the blockade as a measure "imposed on a population of 1.5 million people who are effectively imprisoned, and most of whom are deprived of living a normal life".

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