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Ben Gvir is not a fringe politician, he's the face of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians.

Translated from the Instagram page @Orientalidades:

A Lebanese protester holds a sign reading "Pirates of the Mediterranean" and the Star of David, in reference to the State of Israel, during a protest in front of Al-Jazeera offices in Beirut on February 5, 2009. The protest was against Israel's interception of a Lebanese ship carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, activists, and journalists. The Lebanese cargo ship, attempting to deliver aid to Gaza in defiance of the blockade, docked at the Israeli port of Ashdod under Israeli naval escort after being intercepted at sea. Among the eight people aboard the "Brotherhood Ship" was the emeritus Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem, Hilarion Capucci, who left Jerusalem in the 1970s after serving time in an Israeli prison for his involvement with the Palestinian resistance.

The image of the 2009 Beirut protest remains relevant because Israel continues to intercept humanitarian flotillas attempting to break the Gaza blockade. In recent years, aid ships carrying activists and journalists have once again been surrounded by the Israeli Navy, resulting in detentions, assaults, destruction of equipment, and violent boarding in international waters. Recent scenes reinforce the perception of continuity between the former "Brotherhood Ship" and the current humanitarian missions prevented from reaching Gaza. Israel has maintained a severe blockade on Palestinian territory for almost twenty years, and the humanitarian situation in the enclave has drastically worsened since the beginning of the current war.