Finally, FWIW readers' dieting yields results: our allies on the Freedom Flotilla have been released by their Muslim captors. What? You weren't part of that effort?
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No Jews, No News: Gaza 'Flotilla' Activists Held Captive In Libya for Weeks, Nobody Cared
David Strom, HotAir:
Remember when Israel arrested, fed, and gave free transport to Greta Thunberg and her motley crew of virtue signalers who tried to break the blockade of Gaza?
World news. Accusations of abuse (Pallywood-style), world condemnation of Israel for being cruel, inhuman beasts for not allowing commie cosplayers to deliver 4 loaves of bread or so to the not-really-starving Gazans.
It made for great propaganda. Because they made Israel a villain, which is everywhere and always the point for leftists and transnationalists.
A funny thing happened to the latest flotilla, and almost nobody heard about it: the whole thing was stopped off the coast of Libya, its "activists" were "illegally detained," and a bunch of their companions who were convoying supplies for it were kidnapped and held for "about a month."
Ah, Hillary Clinton's Libya. "We came, we saw, he's dead." Good times.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, gave a crap aside from the flotilla organizers, Amnesty International (sorta), and the poor diplomats who had to figure out how to get them away from the kidnappers.
“Four pro-Palestinian campaigners detained in Libya for about a month have been released, the Global Sumud Flotilla group has said.
In a statement on Wednesday, the organisation said Achraf Khoja from Tunisia, Matias Rodriguez from Uruguay, and Domenico Centrone and Leonarda Alberizia, both from Italy, had all arrived in Tunis. Six others are expected to be released in the next 24 hours, it added.
In an earlier statement, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani welcomed the news of the released Italians, saying the two, along with Rodriguez, who has Italian citizenship, were handed over to Italy’s consul in Benghazi. They will return to Italy on Wednesday, he said on X.
More than 400 activists were arrested last month in international waters on board dozens of vessels while sailing towards Gaza to break a siege imposed on the enclave by Israel.
The activists held in Libya were part of a separate group which tried to reach the strip by land. They had staged a hunger strike in protest at their detention, the Global Sumud Flotilla said.”
No Jews, no news. Almost literally, nobody cared.
