by Ray McGovern, June 20, 2011
Stuffing my backpack before setting out to board The Audacity of Hope, the U.S. boat to Gaza, I got a familiar-sounding call from yet another puzzled friend, who said as gently as the words allow, “You know you can get killed, don’t you?”
I recognize this caution as an expression of genuine concern from friends. From some others—who don’t much care about Gaza’s plight and/or who do not wish us well—the words are phrased somewhat differently: “Aren’t you just asking for it?”
That was the obligatory question/accusation at the end of a recent interview of me that was taped for a BBC-TV special scheduled to air this coming week as we try to break—or at least draw attention to—Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza and the suffering it inflicts on the people there.
Ah, the good old BBC, so reliable, so predictable.
ReplyDeletea dosez boats were stopped peacefully ...only when the Turks picked up metal rods (against paint ball guns) did the israelis respond with deadly force. Don't worry Ray, you'll be safe. In jail. deported. personna non grata.
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ReplyDeleteI'll tell you this in the most direct fashion possible. You're one of two. Either you've been lobotomised and accepted whatever your rogue state's propaganda machine tells you or you're just a lying piece of sh*t! So which one is it?
Death by paintball, very rare, except when the paintballers are Israeli.
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