Freedom

“ Activists from the California-based Free Gaza Movement are planning to sail from Cyprus to Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade of the territory.
About 45 people are in the port of Larnaca in Cyprus, preparing to sail south to Gaza.

"This is a non-violent resistance project to challenge Israel's siege of Gaza. Israel claims that Gaza is no longer occupied, yet Israeli forces control Gaza by land, sea and air".
The organizer’s plan is to enter Gaza from international waters without Israel's authorization, to recognize Palestinian control over its own borders.

“…to show the world the reality of what's going on there.” ”

Please remind me. Gaza is how big ? ? SMALL ! 365 sq km 141 sq miles. I live near a small city of less than a million population, 683 sq km 264 sq miles. Bigger than Toronto which is 630 sq km 243 sq miles or Chicago 606 sq km 234 sq miles. New York is only 789 sq km 305 sq miles, and Mexico City D is 1499 sq km 579 sq miles.

Gaza would be let me seeeeee about 14 by 10 miles. 24 times 2 or 48 miles to travel around it. One morning bicycle ride.

“THE new gun which Germany brought into use for the first time on April 30 (a couple of years ago) against Dunkirk threw its shells from twenty-one to twenty-three miles, establishing a record as the greatest long-range firing ever known in actual warfare.”

That would be about ten miles inside Israel from a boat on the coast of Gaza. No wait, part of Gaza is only 6 km or may be 4 miles wide. Hummmm that would put a shell 16 miles inside Israel. In the vast expanses of North America it could be that we have to cut people a little slack they just do not understand 4 miles wide. Why would any one think that Israel might want to patrol the coast of Gaza ? ?

It is not lost on us that they are harking back to what Israeli people did a few years ago by leaving from Cyprus. Cheap shot ! !

Some one with a rifle could stand on the coast of Gaza and lob bullets across the narrow middle strip into Israel.

Gaza IS free. Free to quit firing rockets into Israel. Gaza is free to recognize that the UN DID recognize the sovereignty of Israel. Gaza is free to start thinking that it just May Be that they are rather dependent on Israel, they get their gas from there, their electricity from there, their jobs from there. Gaza is free to realize that Israel itself is small and is surrounded by countries much bigger with many more people and more arms and more dollars and who have tried in the past to get rid of Israel and are all still waiting for the chance to do so. Gaza is free to recognize that Israel is essentially living in a state of war and they are in the middle of it.

So how many of those people who are griping about Israel have a fence around their back yard ? Why ?