If one were bonded to the idea of dying at sea, this would be a good plan
Taking the protest against the Gaza blockade to a new level, two boats packed with foreign left-wing activists will attempt to sail from Cyprus to the sealed Gaza harbor in two weeks’ time.
The operation is being directed by members of the International Solidarity Movement and the Israeli Commission against House Demolitions. A Web site, FreeGaza, has been set up to collect donations and update the public.
The group – which numbers some 40 activists – has purchased two boats, one called SS Free Gaza and the other SS Liberty, named after the USS Liberty that was mistakenly bombed by the Israel Air Force during the Six Day War. Thirty-four American sailors were killed in the bombing.
The boats are scheduled to set sail from Cyprus on August 5 and arrive, according to organizer Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, at the Gaza coast a day or two later.
“The purpose is to get into the Gaza harbor and breach the siege,” Godfrey-Goldstein said Thursday. “The IDF will probably stop us but part of the point is to show that Gaza is closed off.”
The ISM has set it up so that Israel loses either way, and I wouldn’t put it past these freaks to go so far as to rig the boats to sink so that they can claim Israel did shoot at them.
Now to find where they got the money to buy boats big enough to carry 40 people for two to three days.
Kinda makes you pray for a storm, doesn’t it?