I understand the point, but sheâs 22. Just because she was smart enough to start activism young doesnât mean sheâs not an adult woman now.
The image that remains of her is still that of a very confident teenager defying common sense. And people still fear her, attacking her, without caring about the causes she is fighting for.
Splinter on a previous attempt to break the Gaza blockade from a former Irish Rugby player, Trevor Hogan, who was on a ship called Saoire (freedom, I think).
From the articleâŚ
Eventually the ship runs out of juice, and they managed to board the ship and take it over. And theyâre blasting water through the windows and you see the commandos coming on and theyâre all balaclavaâd up young lads. You can see the terror. Their eyeballs are intense, screaming at you. Theyâre so young, but theyâre just so brainwashedâand that societyâs gone even worse in the last decadeâand they canât compute, canât understand, why we are doing this. Trying to help what they view as Palestinian sub-humans. They just donât understand. They think weâre the ones who are brainwashed. So itâs a real standoff, and itâs a real sense of, oh, thereâs no talking to them.
Didnât they do this with Mandatory Palestine in the 1st place?
Taking other peopleâs land to make your state: itâs one of the big reasons US governments love Israel.
My relatives who live in Israel were woke up by sirens and are waiting for further instructions.
FTA:
Israelis Are Convinced Palestinians Want to Leave Gaza.
How on earth would anyone leap to that conclusion? What theyâve put up with to stay there breaks my imagination. Itâs not something youâd do if you wanted to leave.