Peter Hitchens on a certain “Aid Convoy”:
If you want to be wholly dispassionate, you might call it a ‘convoy’ without adornment. But to call it an ‘Aid Convoy’ is itself a departure from neutrality. I myself would call it a propaganda fleet, but then I am openly partisan on this issue. The use of the expression ‘humanitarians’ is likewise suspect, as is the use of the word ‘activists’ without saying what sort of activists they are.
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It emerges that these ships were not entirely peopled by pacifist vegetarian idealists from the Isle of Wight.
For instance, one of these ‘activists’ is a lawyer who once represented a terrorist for free (his client was the interesting Kozo Okamoto, still in the Middle East and anxious not to return to his native Japan). Mr Okamoto took part in the 1972 Lod Airport massacre, in which 25 innocents were massacred.
Aboard were others who are active supporters of Hamas, the despotic and murderous Islamist rulers of Gaza. Hamas hurled their Fatah opponents to their deaths from the tops of high buildings when they took over, and recently imprisoned in disgraceful circumstances a British freelance journalist, Paul Martin (look it up) to a chorus of almost total silence from the British media and left-wing intelligentsia.
Then there were some members of the Egyptian ‘parliament’, who are supporters of that country’s rather unmoderate, and barely-tolerated, Muslim Brotherhood.
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