"The court, in this case, is facing the same issue, and we like a ship in an unchartered sea, seeking some guidance by the light thrown by the legislation and judicial precedents in foreign countries", it said.

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Instead, Mr Zinni's mission was dominated by Israel's public-relations coup: its seizure off its Red Sea coast of a ship, the Karine-A, laden with 50 tonnes of arms.

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Imagining the prophet Jonah boarding his ship in Jaffa just days before he was cast into the sea and swallowed by a whale, I piled into the Israeli girls' car and continued my strange little pilgrimage.

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