The Audacity of Hope

I have just recently returned home from Greece on my own volition, not deported from Israel as I had expected.  I am alright with that to.  My work as part of the US Boat to Gaza and the International Freedom Flotilla II/Stay Human was to get a message out to the world that the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza must come to an end.   Our message went further than our wildest dreams, as millions of people around the world  watched.   Israel threw everything they could at us: lies about the passenger, sabotage of boats, threats of being homophobic, threats of chemical to attack soldiers, complaints against our boat, petty bureaucracy to tie us in, economic and political...