I regret to report that this year’s Freedom Flotilla to Gaza is a bust. The hardy band of activists – including a couple of dozen Canadians and the novelist Alice Walker – failed to break Israel’s brutal blockade and deliver their cargo of humanitarian relief to the suffering Gazans. In fact, they barely made it out of port. The Canadians’ boat, the Tahrir (Arabic for “liberation”) was immediately intercepted by the Greek coast guard. An early alert that the boat might be sinking proved to be a false alarm. It was merely gouged when the coast guard took it back to the marina and ran it into the dock.
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