"The hypocrisy of the claim that flotillas to Gaza are a 'humanitarian' endeavor has now been fully exposed: As Jonathan Tobin noted last week, the latest proved to be carrying a mere two cardboard boxes worth of aid. But pro-Palestinian activists are also guilty of an even more egregious form of hypocrisy: They proclaim all anti-Israel U.N. decisions to be binding international law, but openly flout U.N. decisions that happen to be in Israel's favor. The Gaza flotillas are a perfect example.
According to the flotilla activists, their goal was 'to break the illegal blockade on Gaza.' But a blue-ribbon international commission appointed by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in 2010 concluded that the blockade is in fact a 'legitimate security measure' that fully complies with international law. So the same activists who lambaste Israel for noncompliance with anti-Israel U.N. resolutions – like those against the settlements, or the one ostensibly granting Palestinian refugees a 'right of return' to Israel – feel it's perfectly fine for them to ignore U.N. decisions that don't serve their cause...
But pro-Palestinian activists selectively treat U.N. decisions that favor their cause as 'binding international law' while simply ignoring decisions that don't favor their cause. And that position makes a travesty of the most fundamental principle of any kind of law: that it must apply equally to all parties in all cases, regardless of whether it helps or hurts a particular cause.
Thus, anyone who claims to support international law should be the first to denounce this abuse of U.N. decisions. And the fact that so many self-proclaimed advocates of international law instead lend tacit support to this travesty is precisely why no self-respecting person should accept their interpretation of anything."