Flotilla Redux

Jon Haber
Divest This!
24 November '10

Was it only a few months ago that “flotillas” were the Alpha and Omega of the 24-hour news cycle?

Having managed to grab headlines at the cost of getting some of their allies killed, the “Israel Dislikers” spent the summer in hyperdrive, trying to gin up the same level of (self) righteous fury they’ve only managed during wars triggered by Hezbollah and Hamas and promising an endless flow of convoys designed to break Israel’s fully-legal blockade of Gaza.

So anything new on that front?

Well it looks like one group, Road to Hope (don’t you just love the names these militant/propaganda groups choose for themselves?) was able to set sail to Libya with a shipload of “urgent medical supplies” which I believe included a steamshovel (although I can’t seem to find a list of their cargo).

Their plan was to cross by land from Libya into Egypt, but when Egypt refused to let them in they decided to set sail again and deliver the goods by sea to the port of Al Arish.

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