At the end of the month my ISM friend Tom flew from Cairo to join the US vessel, Audacity of Hope. Perhaps she was inauspiciously named; yet again the sailor activists were thwarted. Greece and Cyprus had given in to US bullying and saboteurs crippled the Swedish Juliano and the Irish MV Saoirse. Working fast, the Flotilla’s international supporters (a group whimsically known as ‘the Flytilla’) proposed a 9 July protest meeting in Bethlehem to publicise the bullying and sabotaging and to challenge Israel’s tightening restrictions on foreigners’ entry to the West Bank. Meanwhile, Ruth Zakh of the Israeli embassy in Dublin had provided a classic example of the Zionists’ much used smear technique. She accused Freedom Flotilla I, which lost nine activists to the IDF, of being ‘associated with IHH, an Istanbul-based terrorist organization’. IHH is a Turkish ISI, legally registered as a charity and an energetic advocate of non-violent movements.I had just arrived home when the Irish Times reported an unprecedented Israeli reaction to the ‘Flytilla’.
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