Do not call Halper a "professor". He is NOT and lies about it. His name does not appear at the website of ANY university. No record of attending a university and completing a degree much less a Ph.D. He ist an impostor and Israel-basher funded by petro-dollars. He claims to have attended rabbinical school (Wikipedia). Yet he sailed into Gaza on Shabbat ... some rabbi! One who lies about their credentials can not be believed about anything else. He is allied with N. Finkelstein a Holocaust basherr and a H. Epstein claiming to be a Holocaust survivor ... how do two these coexist?! Professor Alfred Inselberg (Tel Aviv U) and a REAL Holocaust survivor

A once beautiful harbor? Sure when Israel was in control, then the arabs took over and everything turned to drek. Maybe when the school curriculum in Gaza doesn’t have hate the Jews as a main theme and the biggest manufacturing enterprise isn’t rockets to fire at Israel we will know these cretins yearn for peace. Now all they want is to fill their insatiable appetite for more Jewish blood and territory. More than 75% of Gaza residents voted Hamass into power! These are the people who pass out candy when Jews are killed by their brothers and sisters. Like any cancerous growth, Gaza and its residents should be given heavy doses of chemotherapy until it withers and dies. I am glad Halper made it in; he should starve with all the other mentally ill parasites.

Mr.Halper GAZA port in shambles?? Holland ( I am from Holland) gave to your Mr.Arafat, 8 years ago, 25 million $$(!!) to rebuild GAZA-port!!! Until now NOTHING is done and I WONDER were this money is gone:)

There have been almost 2,000 rockets fired in and around Sderot and Ashkelon, Since the so called truce there have been more. Why doesn't the peace ship sail here and talk to use Israelis, whom at the sound of a boom we fractionally freeze and wonder why the siren didn't go off. Why do not the Gazans them selves pluck up the courage and demand that their Leaders stop bombarding us, then perhaps we might open the gates, and let them work for us again. IT CUTS 2 WAYS you so called peace keepers. Keeping the peace means seeing the other side. Not one. To me its subtle anti-semitism, and there is nothing worse than a traitor in a position of influence. Its almost as bad as todays parents encouraging their children to opt out of the IDF.

As a professor i am amazed you deny the clear facts. There is no Palastinian people, just displaced Arabs from surrounding nations. Here are the facts that even you cant deny! The Arabs never called themselves Palastinian pre 68! The Arabs never talked about an Israeli occupation pre 68! If there is a PAlastine, the Arabs never ask for their land back from Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan....just Israel! You are a disgrace for denying these obvious facts. Quit the charade!

1. You don't need a PHd to be a professor. Notice he's not referred to as Dr. Halper. And he was affiliated with Ben Gurion University. As far as him sailing on Shabbat, that doesn't matter if you're a reform rabbi. To most reform rabbis, Shabbat is the day when they do go to work. 2. Epstein is a Holocaust survivor. She survived by going to England. Who said you had to be in a camp to have survived the Holocaust. She was Jewish in Gemany during Kristalnacht and lost her parents. That doesn't count? I don't like these people either because they're dishonest in so many other ways. That doesn't give anyone the right to emulate their worst characteristics.

Some ideas are so dumb it takes an intellectual to believe them. But really, they were below the fold on the NYT today and tomorrow nobody will care. 200 hearing aids and 5000 balloons. When balloons count as "humanitarian aid," the situation can't be that bad.

Do just steal there quassam rockets and suicide bombs that they spend there money on.

I have to say shame on you WORLD. If this was happening in the U.S. or Europe the world would rally to the rescue. The Palestinian people are a nation of human beings. Who cares where and when they established themselves. They have been a nation of people long before the U.S. was a thought. I am an american and I cant believe how my country and others could allow such tragities to continue around the world. I bet if the Palestinians had OIL or some other useful mineral the powerful nations on this planet would step in. I pray for your people and ask that God make things right. This world is big enough for everyone. For Israel to be such a "Holy nation", Why aren't they doing what GOD wants? PEACE for all!

This conflict has been going on for to long. The greedy world leaders have nothing to gain in this so they sit by and twiddle there thumbs. I am saddened to read such ugly criticism from what is seemingly intelligent people. I applaud the risk those people took in there venture. I understand what message they were trying to convey. I am regularly amazed hat just how ignorant some people can be. Stop taking sides and help by looking for a solution. A peaceful solution.

you are living in a different world with your own false reality! you obviously don't know your history either. if the Arabs put down there guns there would be peace! if the Isrealis put down ther guns there would be no more Jews!

there is a difference between healthy protest and dangerously irresponsible tactics, such as storming a hostile security zone, lucky he wasn't nabbed and ransomed

boost his academic credentials. There is a big difference between being "affiliated" - whatever that means - and being a professor, which implies years of research and tenure in the brutally competitive Israeli academia. The guy is simply a liar. As for Epstein being a holocaust survivor if being in a different country when the Holocaust was happening makes you a survivor then every single Israeli should be pressing their claims right now. My family survived the farhud by a nazi-backed Iraqi nationalists, does that make me a "holocaust survivor"?

Why don't they go protest in Iran or Syria? Or against Hizbollah in Dahiyah? Or against Islamists in Pakistan? That would show real bravery. The worst they would suffer here is a photo-op of soldiers turning them back.

this group is definitely "pro-hamas", to the extent that they are willing to risk their lives to confront naval vessels, and "peace" is NOT synonymous with "hamas"!!! if they were to succeed and get the blockade lifted, how would an increased flow of arms to hamas help the cause of peace?

Halper's inadvertent admission of moral narcissism is quite clear. It's the Gazans who are the real dupes here, they haven't understood that it's not about them, it's all about the activists..

Affilitae:To associate (oneself) as a subordinate, subsidiary, employee, or member: Did I use the wrong word? He was a staff professor at Ben Gurion University. If you deny he had the academic credentials to be a professor than perhaps Israeli academia isn't as competitive as you think. If your family had you shipped off to a foreign country to avoid being murdered by Iraqi nationalists than yes I would say you were a survivor of that event - which is not Holocaust related. Most people link the enacting of the Nuremberg Laws and Kristalnacht as part of the Holocaust.

you just revealed how morally deficient and evil you are to lend support to anti semites who are committed to a second holocaust .You are mad and bad

straighten out their terrorist ideology then. They created their own land. They live in it and attack Israel every chance they can. Israel wants nothing to do with these people anymore. They are a thorn in everyones side. No one wants them, or their terrorist ideology, in their countries. They can start building dikes into the med like the Dutch.....if they need more land. Tell them to grow up and take care of their own population and problems. We owe them nothing. They need to go to work and try to do something that pays a wage, rather than fomenting war with Israel every day of the week. These people are not helpless....you do them a great inservice by pittying them for the calamity they have bestowed upon themselves, by choosing terrorism over human rights. The rights of Jews to live without terrorists blowing up their children and buildings for a cult religion which supports the genocide of the Jews.

among the Palestinian flags his boat had? Why - because his beloved Gazans would have hit the boat with rockets. What a liar this guy is.

These "peace activists" are more motivated by their hate of Israel than their love of the Palestinians.

all talkbackers seems to not fancy that idea; that is why he would make a good PM!