Only after the state of Israel provoked against itself an unprecedented wave of protests throughout the world - and nine people were killed at sea - did the government of Israel come to the conclusion that it might not be an absolute necessity to prevent Gazan Palestinians from consuming pasta and coriander.
How many more fiascos until the government comes to accept that the inhabitants of Gaza – like those of Ashdod, and of Haifa, and of thousands of sea-side cities on the shore of all the world's seas - have the right to build a sea-port and invite to it ships from anywhere in the world?
The naval forces of the State of Israel already prepare for the next headache: a boatload of Lebanese women seeking to sail to the Gaza shores...
