Cruise to Gaza—cocktails at 8

‘The Gaza or Bust Boat Trip’ putting out to sea next week has been loftily christened “Freedom Flotilla II”. Its self-styled message to a recession-bound world: “Stay Human” from “a rainbow coalition of human rights defenders.” Make that human rights for everybody, but not the Israelis. Touted loudly as “world citizenry united”, the goal of Freedom Flotilla II is “to lift the illegal siege, completely and permanently and freedom for the Palestinian people.”

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The far left has always climbed high to seize the moral high-ground to lecture their lessers. This time they are climbing onto their own mega-dollars- to-rent boats. Just in case you didn’t know, this isn’t all about Muslims and their visceral hatred of Israel. 
According to the seafaring activists, “it does not only concern Muslims, but everyone, be they Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu, secular or whatever.” Problem is Christians, Jews, Hindus, secular or whatever don’t remember being asked whether they thought “breaking the illegal Israeli blockade” and endangering human lives was a good idea. Back-packing their tofu and bean-sprouts, donning green, at least in the figurative sense, and going down to the sea in ships has become the new trend for the protest-loving, Che Guevera-sporting far left. Some 1,500 activists from 40 countries, including Canada and the United States, will be plowing the waves from Greece any day now joining the hippy-happy Freedom Flotilla 11-Stay Human making its way for the Gaza Strip. They are getting underway while the United Nations is ignoring the pleas from Nobel Peace laureates to Ban Ki- Moon for safe passage. Ships on the lookout should watch for strange puffs of smoke as marijuana is bound to be part of the cargo of these holier-than-thou, self-professed humanitarians cruising the majestic seas. Righteous rhetoric aside, Freedom Flotilla 11 has a passenger list composed of a D-Grade coterie of celebrity activists, gung-ho between nibbles and sips from the hip flasks to destroy “Israel’s policy of collective punishment”. In days of yore it was “Join the Navy and See the World”. Nowadays it’s jetting off to Greece to catch a slow boat to waiting-for-rescue Gaza. Seeing the world by sea cruise costs money, hard to come by in the middle of the Recession. Average Canadians are paying the freight--$340,000 raised through donate buttons--for Canadian activists salivating to sail on the trusty Tahrir. Who could argue that this is the best way to see Europe on everyone else’s dime? Greece is roughly 800 nautical miles away from Gaza, giving the activists peak pitch by the time they reach Gaza. We don’t know whether Billy Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn will be along for the ride as they were last time, but we do know you don’t get Ayers-Dohrn lectures from capitalist pigs traveling the Orient Express. Those not swallowing the hypocritical rhetoric of the activists hang onto technicolor dreams of someone renaming Freedom Flotilla II `The Lost at Sea Transgendered Society’. They are hoping that the spoiled-by-luxury activists run out of bean sprouts and get scurvy on their way to anarchy. There are some even wishing a pox of sea sickness on these sailing sissies. While they expect a watching world to throw flower petals in their wake, many would rather throw petals AT their wake. Due to the numerous references that “survivors” of Freedom Flotilla I will be aboard Freedom Flotilla II, mainstream media reporters should be asking if the survivors had a gun held to their heads to jump back aboard, and if homosexual activists among Flotilla 11 sailors will finally come together with the Muslim Brotherhood in a public show of solidarity. Other than seeing Greece and a free holiday turned “peaceful protest”, Freedom Flotilla II is destined to fail. Let’s hope it does not meet the same fate of Flotilla I in which nine Turkish activists died. They’re likely selling commemorative kafiya scarves while under sail, but the T-Shirts that might be sold after the event should read, “My Daddy Sailed to Gaza and all He Got was Blockade.”