Sunday, August 24, 2008
This is what victory looks like
The SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty being greeted by a crowd of more than 2000 people as they sail into Gaza.
We'll allow one of the organizers to have the first and only word in this post:
"Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip is one of the great crimes of the 21st century, which the governments of the West and the Arab League are abetting by their silence."Update: Yvonne Ridley adds some detail:
I really want to make one thing very clear to you here and now.
Israel did not give us permission to enter Gaza - the reality is they could NOT STOP us even if they tried.
And believe me some of the tactics to scupper our historic voyage were unbelievable.
Some of us, our family and friends have received death threats by telephone, text and emails while the whole Free Gaza Movement was targeted by Zionists lawyers who tried to sink our mission before it even began.
We were accused of being a front for a Hamas operated gunrunning venture and even Iran was accused of being party by supplying weapons.
Then Israel Foreign Minister Zvipi [sic] Livni made a snide comment a few days ago saying she hoped we could all swim while the Naval Commander announced he was running military exercises off the coast of Gaza and had thrown a 35-mile wide exclusion zone around.
