{"id":5811,"date":"2010-06-01T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:07:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:07:55","slug":"israeli-flotilla-raid-condemned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/01\/israeli-flotilla-raid-condemned\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli flotilla raid condemned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5812\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Gaza-flotilla-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gaza flotilla\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>After the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/Docs\/sc\/\">UN Security Council<\/a> <a title=\"condemned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/02\/world\/middleeast\/02nations.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">condemned<\/a> Israel&#8217;s open-seas raid on a flotilla headed with humanitarian aid to Gaza, Israel says the 600-plus activists it arrested\u00a0are being <a title=\"freed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/01\/AR2010060100548.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">freed<\/a> and expelled from the country.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/\">Law<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Robert Sloane\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/sloane_r.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Sloane<\/a>, an authority on international law, says Israel violated a very basic customary norm of international law: the freedom of the high seas.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Had Israel waited for the vessels to enter Israeli waters, or at least what&#8217;s known as the \u2018contiguous zone,\u2019 then it arguably could have seized the vessels to enforce its blockade and prevent what it might characterize as smuggling in violation of Israeli law.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Robert Sloane, 617-358-4633, <a href=\"mailto:rdsloane@bu.edu\">rdsloane@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the UN Security Council condemned Israel&#8217;s open-seas raid on a flotilla headed with humanitarian aid to Gaza, Israel says the 600-plus activists it arrested\u00a0are being freed and expelled from the country.\u00a0 Law Professor Robert Sloane, an authority on international law, says Israel violated a very basic customary norm of international law: the freedom of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[176,2854,2987,3008,518,3009,540,2846,519,3006,3007,2988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7723,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions\/7723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}