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SE Pacifists are scary: the siege of Gaza is not the peace movement has tried to force the blockade. The activists have discovered the emptiness of the absence of diplomacy and politics.

Protests in Gaza against Israele.C 'is a theorem that can not be touched, and that the world of the volunteers and peace can not do high politics . Not even when, on the stage of the chronicle that becomes history, there are those who are familiar with the volunteers and pacifists, by name name. The men and women who volunteers of NGOs, members of international organizations, assisting the peace for years. So, the volunteers and peace continue to do what they always did. Working in silence, unseen, without raising his voice, because their role is moderation our consciousness. Not the alert, vigilant to make, not to put her to sleep with the song of sirens and the Realpolitik of gradualism. This was the scandal - that Catholics should be familiar - led by the Freedom Flotilla, and all others, past shipments of the Free Gaza Movement. The scandal of those who have decided that the silence had become complicity. The silence of the Embargo in Gaza, which does not last since 2007, when Hamas took control of the Strip, but at least since 2005, when then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided the Israeli disengagement from Gaza. Since then, diplomats and clerks were brilliant for failure: to manage the humanitarian crisis, but also to settle the political crisis. If the people of Gaza must be given food, then let it be said clearly: they are suffering from hunger, malnutrition, loss of dignity, oblivion. And then people must be helped to Gaza, humanitarian aid must be brought without the incredible, inhuman dropper with which they are contributed through the mountain passes that open and close, depending on the decisions taken in Tel Aviv. Woe - in short - if pacifists are political trouble if the volunteers of NGOs push for an absurd and inconceivable status quo (the blockade around Gaza, in violation of all international conventions) is twisted, broken, broken. We must not disturb the maneuver, including diplomats and clerks. It 'a reading which, however, does not hold the weight of events and history. Because in the last five years, at least five years, has worn one of his most anonymous of international politics. Not only without leaps and unimaginative, but without a credible strategy, if not long term, at least the medium term. Lack of imagination and courage to read events that are not cataloged or in classical Realpolitik, nor Machiavellian style politics, nor in the diplomatic policy of "small step at a time" we are seeing far too long. The great diplomatic schools of the past (the blinds? The Vatican? The Ottoman?) Left a teaching that is timeless: diplomacy is that when there is a political strategy behind it. Only then there is capacity to influence. Counting. To press, the opponent or the environment. Firmly. The problem, in the siege of Gaza is not that the Free Gaza movement has tried several times to force the Israeli naval blockade. The problem is that actors deputies to answer the question about the embargo on Gaza have postponed indefinitely the solution of the problem. Why in Gaza, after all, there are only a million and a half of anonymous people with no pedigree, of poor, dead (or almost) of starvation. Nothing to do with high politics, politics that counts, the summit, investors, big business. Starving. Silent, however. And the silence of the hungry has been considered, in secret rooms, like a blank, for use when you think it is possible. At the risk, effective, an indefinite suspension. The indefinite suspension was broken by the Freedom Flotilla, with the blood of the victims killed in an assault went to a bad end. And it is the emptiness of diplomacy, the absence of politics, the weak point that pacifists have discovered. That there is, tragically, no high political or diplomatic maneuver no end. There is a void that no one has dared to fill. Except, now, run for cover. When the blood has been shed. And the bill in black, left by the hungry in Gaza, should be required, and quickly. Why the scandal now is before the eyes of the world through the eye of a camera at 4:30 of the dawn of the end of May, on the eastern Mediterranean, showed that you can even die from Gaza. Dying for the hungry. Not for Hamas.