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Nobel Laureate Maguire blocked from Israel
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
AP
Campaigner Mairead Maguire was detained in Tel Aviv airport
A Nobel Peace Prize winner seized on an aid flotilla to Gaza earlier this year was stopped from entering Israel today.
Campaigner Mairead Maguire was detained in Tel Aviv airport after arriving in the country as part of a women's peace delegation.
The Nobel Women's Initiative, an organisation co-founded by Ms Maguire and five other Nobel peace laureates, planned the trip to meet women involved in peace initiatives in Palestine and Israel.
Professor Jody Williams, who is due to travel to Tel Aviv as part of the delegation later, said the group was concerned over her detention.
"We are very concerned that a committed fellow activist is being refused into the country," she said.
"Mairead's dedication to peace should not be considered a threat to national security."
Ms Maguire, who was told she was being repatriated rather than deported after being prevented from entering Gaza on the flotilla in May, is appealing the denial of entry. A court is expected to decide if she can enter.
She had been on board the MV Rachel Corrie in June when it was boarded by Israeli forces off the coast of Gaza.
Nine people were killed the previous week when Israeli commando forces boarded the Mavi Marmara, one of the vessels taking part in the flotilla.
The Nobel Women's Initiative travels to a troubled region of the world every two years to meet women's groups and highlight the difficulties they face.
The group last visited the Thai-Burma border and camps in east Chad holding refugees from Darfur in 2008.
It was established in 2006 by sister Nobel Peace Laureates American professor Jody Williams, Iranian doctor Shirin Ebadi, Kenyan professor Wangari Maathai, Guatemalan Rigoberta Menchu Tum and Ireland's Betty Williams and Mairead Maguire.
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agree with their content or support it. "Selected by RAEL" means that I believe
it is important for the people of this planet to know about what people think or
do, even when what they think or do is completely stupid and against our
philosophy. When I selected articles in the past about stupid Christian
fundamentalists in America praying for rain, I am sure no Rael-Science reader
was stupid enough to believe that I was supporting praying to change the
weather. So, when I select articles which are in favor of drugs, anti-semitic,
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is necessary to make it clearer, I add a comment, which in this case was very
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and sad people (as only depressed and sad people use drugs) in prison and ruin
their life with a criminal record. That does not mean that there is any change
to the Message which says clearly that we must not use any drug except for
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your right to say it".
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
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