Organizers of the First Boats to Break the Siege of Gaza look back
Paul Larudee of the Free Palestine Movement is one of the speakers in this video below, speaking as an organizer of the first boats to break the siege on Gaza. This webinar was organized by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. Read Paul’s comments below and check out this informative video:
This successful voyage to Gaza in 2008 was an extraordinary event. We didn’t expect to make it, but we did. Now the organizers look back at how it was done. They provide the back story, in the hope that it may help other resistance actions against Israel, and to restore Palestine to Palestinians.
Of course, there is much more than can be told in one session, but we will be happy to answer questions for as long as you wish to ask them.
As one of the organizers, let me say that the day we landed in Gaza was the most important day of my life. Apologies to my family, who provided me with most of my most important days, but this was a historic day, when we accomplished the impossible.
But it was not the liberation of Palestine, which is far more important. It was a mere taste of what can happen when we all work together to defy Israeli oppression. It remains to eliminate that oppression altogether. And we can do that, too, if enough of us are willing to do what is necessary to make it happen and to make many great sacrifices beyond the sacrifices of the past, which, as we know, have been insufficient. If they had been sufficient, Palestine would be free, and it is not.