Big 9/11 Event - “7 Years of Lies…Beyond 9/11″ ~ Thursday, September 11th - 6:00 to 10:00 PM - Immanuel Presbyterian Church - With Ed Asner, Dr. Robert Bowman, Peter Thottam, G. Edward Griffin, Bayard Condon

911TruthLA Presents

 Beyond Left & Right, a Call to Action!
7 Years of Lies… Beyond 9/11… the US, Today & Tomorrow
 
Thursday, September 11th
6:00 to 10:00 PM
Doors Open at 5:30 PM - Program Starts Promptly at 6:00 PM
  $15.00 at the door 
 
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd.,
Los Angeles 
(2 Blocks west of Vermont at Berendo)

 
Please Join Bayard Condon (Master of Ceremonies),  
 Ed Asner, Dr. Robert Bowman, G. Edward Griffin, Peter Thottam, Sofia,      
 and many others for this evening of education, sharing, and a call to action.

                                                                            

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Please join us as we memorialize 9/11, discuss the past, present and future implications of 9/11.
We invite you to join our master of ceremonies Bayard Condon (KPFK LSB Member), Dr. Robert Bowman (Lt. Colonel USAF, Cal Tech PHD,Head of Star Wars program under President Ford, former Presidential Candidate), G. Edward Griffin (Film Producer, Creature from Jekyll Island), Peter Thottam, JD, MBA (9/11 Truth and Impeachment Activist), Sofia of 9/11 Mysteries, and others.

This will be a fascinating and educational evening into what 9/11 means to the USA, and a call to action. We will discuss the decimation of the Bill of Rights, the deaths of our soldiers, and over one million Iraquis. We will discuss our media that lies and distracts us. Crimes against humanity, and against the Earth itself. Join us in our Grass Roots struggle to bring truth to our fellow citizens, join our Call to Action. The dollar has fallen 42% in value in the last eight years, and food and fuel prices have skyrocketed. The Middle Class is being destroyed, and for the poor, homeless, and undocumented workers, the situation is intolerable.

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Questions contact Peter Thottam at:  (310) 497-7255  or: peterthottam@gmail.com

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“SINGER-SONGFIGHTER” ROSS ALTMAN to SPEAK at ACTIVIST SUPPORT CIRCLE - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27th, 7:00 PM - Friends Meeting Hall - 1440 Harvard Street, Santa Monica


 
 
 


 

“SINGER-SONGFIGHTER” ROSS ALTMAN TO SPEAK AT 

ACTIVIST SUPPORT CIRCLE

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27th at 7:00 PM 

 Friends Meeting Hall - 1440 Harvard Street, Santa Monica  

 

            Santa Monica, CA – “Singer-Songfighter” Ross Altman, the longtime progressive activist and folk singer, will be the special guest speaker  at the Activist Support Circle public gathering on Wednesday, August 27, 2008, beginning 7:00 PM at the Friends Meeting Hall, located at 1440 Harvard Street in Santa Monica. 

            The purpose of the Activist Support Circle monthly gatherings are to:

·      Guard against activist-related burnout.

·      Share activist-related frustrations and fears, as well as hopes and aspirations, in a supportive, safe environment.

·      Turn feelings of despair into feelings of empowerment.

·      Learn helpful coping skills and ideas from other like-minded supportive activists.

            The gatherings are free and there is free parking on-site.

            For further information call Jerry Rubin at the Activist Support Circle at (310) 399-1000 or visit their website at: www.activistsupportcircle.org.

 
                                                      JerryPeaceActivistsRubin@earthlink.net 

Cindy Sheehan Bugged in Denver by Rob Kall

August 25, 2008

by Rob Kall     

www.opednews.com

 
 

Cindy Sheehan returned to her Denver hotel room today to find the door unlocked and ajar. She walked in to discover a man working on her phone, screw driver in hand.

Sheehan reported, in an email,

"As I walked toward my room, I noticed that the door was opened with the security bolt blocking the complete closing of the door. I knew immediately that I had not left the door open, and I double checked to make sure it was the right room because, as a frequent traveler, I have been known to forget my room number, but it was the right room.

I was upset at first thinking that housekeeping had made a mistake and left my room open and I was worried that something might be missing. So I walked into my room and bigger than life, there was a man standing by my desk holding the room phone with a screwdriver in his hand!

I immediately said; "What the hell are you doing? Are you putting a bug on my phone?" He looked like he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and stammered out: "N–no, we are having problems with the phone." I told him to get out of my room because my phone was fine and I called the front desk and the person at the front desk stammered something out about "problems" with some of the phones.

This room was reserved soon after we got to Denver last night because the room we had was inadequate for 3 people. The room was reserved under my campaign manager’s name with a CFC debit card. By the time we left for the march, it could have very well been ascertained that I was the one in this room, and the room we did reserve could be bugged, also. I am confident that that’s what was happening when I walked in on the "maintenance" man"

You don’t come in the room with a screwdriver if there are problems with the hotel phones. You do it electronically, through the system or you hook up a new phone.

She said to me, "How many hotel rooms have I been in the past four years? It was so obvious."

I asked, "Do you think it was Pelosi’s people?" since Sheehan is running against Pelosi, for her congressional seat.

She replied, "Of course, I don’t know."

I asked, "Have there been any other episodes that would make you believe this kind of action is being taken against you?"

She replied,

"Not since I’ve been running for congress, but there were several times when I was in Crawford, or protesting in D.C., when I felt like we were being surveiled. And actually, in Washington D.C., for a period of time, they would just blatantly follow me, and I would just invite them to come in and have coffee with me. Whenever I was in D.C., whose ever jurisdiction it was, I’d have either the Metro police, the Capitol Hill police or the Park police right on me. Sometimes they were in uniform and sometimes they were plainclothes. But they were very obvious.

Asked how her campaign is going, Sheehan replied,

"I believe the momentum is definitely on our side, especially the last couple weeks, with our signature drive.

The department of elections started to mess with our signatures and say that so many were in-valid, when we knew for a fact that they were valid, because I was checking them myself, on the computer. That really motivated people to help us– to come to the office to help us or sign the petition (to get Cindy on the ballot) or whatever, that said that they had been meaning to help and that this was something that got them of the fence and got them to actually come into the office and volunteer. We’ve had ten of thousands of dollars come into the campaign since then and we really have a comfortable amount of money to get our message out– the message that our country is in deep trouble and Nancy is definitely not the solution. She’s part of the problem. And we’re going to educate the people of San Francisco about this using alternative forms of media and convince them that I am the alternative– that I will work to be the voice of the people of San Francisco. And that’s something that she has not ever been. I think there is a lot of positive excitement and momentum. Her book tour didn’t help her out any.

The campaign’s going great. We’ve been able to hire more staff.

Asked about her goals for Denver, she described,

"after protesting the Republicans for so many years, the Democrats have been moving steadily to the right. We want to show that we’re not okay with that, that we want to bring the party closer to the people and further from the corporate lobbyists.

So many people are waking up and starting to realize that there is very little difference in the leadership of the two parties. Working for an alternative third party or independent is one way to bring about real change.

So many people with Obama shirts and pins have come up to me and told me that they’re 100% on my side and they’re very distressed with the right turn of the Obama campaign and the democratic party and they’re hoping that demonstrations that we were at earlier, and that will be happening all week, will bring their party to where they think it should be.

Meanwhile, Cindy’s hotel room phone is in the hotel room refrigerator.

Rob Kall is executive editor and publisher of OpEdNews.com, President of Futurehealth, Inc, inventor . He is also published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com. He is a frequent Speaker on Politics, Impeachment, The art, science and power of story, heroes and the hero’s journey, Positive Psychology, Stress, Biofeedback and a wide range of subjects. He is a campaign consultant specializing in tapping the power of stories for issue positioning, stump speeches and debates. He recently retired as organizer of several conferences, including StoryCon, the Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story and The Winter Brain Meeting on neurofeedback, biofeedback, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology. See more of his articles here and, older ones, here.

To learn more about me and OpEdNews.com, check out this article.

Beautiful Film about Don White - “COMPANERO!” - Is Now Available - Order a DVD copy from Peter Dudar & Sally Marr - Read comments about the film below.

Beautiful Must See Film about Don White   
 
   ¡Compañero!
 
 
Is Now Available  
(22-Minutes Long)   
 
Order a DVD Copy ASAP   
 
Send $12  
 (Includes Shipping)   
to: 
 
 Peter Dudar & Sally Marr
1302 N. Sweetzer Ave. #203
Los Angeles, CA 90069
 
 If You Need to Pay Less Contact Peter & Sally at:
 Phone: 323-650-8166 - Email:  mail@arlingtonwestfilm.com   
 
 
  Here is a message from Peter & Sally.  Read comments about the film below. 

 
To the Peace Community,
Copies of ¡Compañero! are available.
Perhaps you might share the film with those that missed the memorial, 
      inspire students to activism or just keep it as a momento.

If anyone would like a DVD, please contact us: mail@arlingtonwestfilm.com or: 323-650-8166.
It was an extraordinary privilege to create this tribute to a great friend to all of us…Senor DON BLANCO!!!!
Special thanks to the 38 video and photo contributors who will keep his memory alive!

In Solidarity,
Peter and Sally
 

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Comments about ¡Compañero! 
 
Dear Peter & Sally,
Your film about the life of our dear friend Don White is absolutely beautiful & moving. It is such a special tribute to Senor Don Blanco, the Most Loved Person in the Peace Community here in Los Angeles. I highly recommend that everyone involved in the Peace & Justice Movement get at least one copy and show it to everyone they know.
   Frank Dorrel  

  It was the most wonderful film I’ve ever seen. Everyone I spoke with said your video was the highlight of the evening.  It was!  - Love, Theresa Bonpane

  
 Thanks you guys, for a beautiful tribute to Don, and a way of remembering that infectiously positive spirit of his.  
 To this day,  I‘m surprised by how much I feel the sense of loss with his passing. - Dave and Grace Adelson

"Thanks again for that terrific survey of Don’s life last night." - Walter Lippmann

The film was incredible, no narration, Don did all the talking !!  You made him come alive.   

 Thank you, thank you.  Please save me a copy. - Roselva Ungar 

  Your dedication to Don and to the cause of PEACE is EXTRADORINARY!!!   Please allow your work to be shared with others by entering it into film festivals.  It WILL INSPIRE others IN and OUT OF the Peace Movement.   BRAVO!!!      Julie Webster

Your film was excellent! - Paul Krehbiel

 Gracias Sally & Peter.  We can continue to experience DON in their beautiful work of love...  Companero!
Ulis and Sandra Williams

Thank you so much for putting together the short film on Don White that was shown at last evening’s memorial in LA. It was wonderfully done and, I think, the one element of the evening that truly captured the essence of Don–his approachability, his friendliness, his caring, his passion, his corny sense of humor, his ability to charm even people on the "other side" of an argument, his willingness to go practically anywhere, and his ability to engage practically anyone in conversation. I never met anyone who didn’t like Don. Your film captured his personality remarkably well.
Thanks again, Al Gunns and Sherna Gluck


That was such an incredible film.  Thank you so much for doing that. -
Love, Maria Armoudian

Thanks again for preparing such a beautiful movie and for giving CISPES so many copies!  Those of us that were there in LA loved it and other CISPES folk are very excited to see it when we screen it at our national gathering next week. Burke Stansbury, Washington DC 

What an amazing tribute to Don. It was the most moving part of the ceremony and it made me feel like I was with him again. It was so beautifully done, I can’t believe you put it together so quickly. Thank you, thank you.  

 Denise Munro

Above all thanks so much for all of your efforts to make a such a touching tribute to Don! My only regret is that he could not have been there to see it. Warm wishes,  - Robert Bahar

I thought your film was terrific, and I was proud to be a part of it. - Peter Raskin

What a beautiful film. I’m so grateful you put it together. - Emma Rosenthal

We are distributing (the DVD ) Dons life and I am also making presentation about the importance of the international solidarity.  It is wonderful and received a million thanks… - Berny Moto in El Salvador

In November, the Caravan for Justice to Fort Benning is named: Caravan For Justice Don White, and I want your permission to show the Don’s Documentary in Fort Benning on Saturday November 22nd. Also is good idea to show that documentary in other cities where we stop. The Banner of La Brigada Don White and his poster we will travel
with the Caravan.  I believe Don is very Happy to know that his friends are in La Lucha!!!  
 

 In Justice and Peace, Frankie Flores
 
What a magnificent tribute film to Don!! You captured the essence of his spirit 
and soul. I loved it!  
 Thank you for doing this. - Shae Popovich

I saw your film Sunday in Anacortes at the local memorial for Don Blanco. You did a great job and deserve at least a gold medal!  What else can I say. We all loved it.  - Robert Post, Washington

Amigos, Robert and I watched the film together. You managed to capture the escence of Sr. Blanco exceedingly well. 
 Paz, Lupe Lujan

You did a wonderful job on the video! It really brought Don to us all that nite at the church.  

 And helped give us closure. - Pam Cohen

Thank you Peter and Sally for all the work and love that went into making that moving, beautiful, glorious tribute to Don. I was recently at House of Pies and found out that Don’s family had breakfast there before leaving for Auburn. Dennis gave one of the waitresses a copy of your wonderful DVD, and well, now some of the staff would also love a copy. (The House of Pies that was his favorite diner).  -  Jeff Neff

The film not only captured Don the peace activist, but the Don that his family knew and loved so much.  

 Dennis White (Don’s brother) 

I plan to show this to my students to inspire them to be peace activists! - LA Teacher

Here’s an email from my friend Kathleen Wang - She is on one of the ships that just arrived in Gaza. She is writing to her Grand-Daughter Krystle. Krystle’s letter to her Grandma is first.

FREE GAZA BOATS ARRIVE IN GAZA - Activists Break Blockade of Gaza - Special to The Washington Post by Linda Gradstein - Breaking the Gaza Blockade by Tim McGirk of TIME

FREE GAZA BOATS ARRIVE IN GAZA - Activists Break Blockade of Gaza - Special to The Washington Post by Linda Gradstein - Breaking the Gaza Blockade by Tim McGirk of TIME

FREE GAZA BOATS ARRIVE IN GAZA
08-23-2008
 
The two boats of the Free Gaza protest group arrive from Cyprus, in Gaza City.
 
GAZA (23 August 2008) - Two small boats, the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty, successfully landed in Gaza early this evening, breaking the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The boats were crewed by a determined group of international human rights workers from the Free Gaza Movement. They had spent two years organizing the effort, raising money by giving small presentations at churches, mosques, synagogues, and in the homes of family, friends, and supporters.

They left Cyprus on Thursday morning, sailing over 350 kilometers through choppy seas. They made the journey despite threats that the Israeli government would use force to stop them. They continued sailing although they lost almost all communications and navigation systems due to outside jamming by some unknown party. They arrived in Gaza to the cheers and joyful tears of hundreds of Palestinians who came out to the beaches to welcome them.

Two small boats, 42 determined human rights workers, one simple message: “The world has not forgotten the people of this land. Today, we are all from Gaza.”
Tonight, the cheering will be heard as far away as Tel Aviv and Washington D.C.

QUOTES FOR PUBLICATION
“We recognize that we’re two, humble boats, but what we’ve accomplished is to show that average people from around the world can mobilize to create change. We do not have to stay silent in the face of injustice. Reaching Gaza today, there is such a sense of hope, and hope is what mobilizes people everywhere.”
–Huwaida Arraf.

Huwaida is Palestinian-American, and also a citizen of Israel. She’s a human rights activist and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. In 2007 she received her Juris Doctor from American University in Washington D.C. Currently she teaches Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Al Quds University in Jerusalem. Huwaida sailed to Gaza aboard the SS Liberty.

“We’re the first ones in 41 years to enter Gaza freely - but we won’t be the last. We welcome the world to join us and see what we’re seeing.”
–Paul Larudee, Ph.D.

Paul is a cofounder of the Free Gaza Movement and a San Francisco Bay Area activist on the issue of justice in Palestine. He sailed to Gaza aboard the SS Liberty.

“What we’ve done shows that people can do what governments should have done. If people stand up against injustice, we can truly be the conscience of the world.”
–Jeff Halper, Ph.D.

Jeff is an Israeli professor of anthropology and coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), a non-violent Israeli peace and human rights organization that resists the Israeli occupation on the ground. In 2006, the American Friends Service Committee nominated Jeff to receive the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize with Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni. Jeff sailed to Gaza aboard the SS Free Gaza.

For More Information, please contact:
(Gaza) Huwaida Arraf, tel. +972 599 130 426
(Gaza) Jeff Halper, tel. +972 542 002 642
(Cyprus) Osama Qashoo, tel. +357 99 793 595 / osamaqashoo@gmail.com
(Jerusalem) Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, tel. +972 547 366 393 /
angela@icahd.org  

www.freegaza.org
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Activists Break Blockade of Gaza
Israel Allows Boats to Deliver Symbolic Shipment of Aid
By Linda Gradstein
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, August 24, 2008

JERUSALEM, Aug. 23 — Two wooden boats carrying dozens of human rights activists reached the Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon after the Israeli navy decided not to hinder the challenge to Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian enclave. Thousands of Palestinians turned out to welcome the group, which brought token humanitarian aid, including hearing aids and balloons.

"It was really amazing — there were kids swimming out to see us and boats sailing out to meet us," said Jeff Halper, head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and the only Israeli Jew on board. "It took us a day and a half to get here, and most of the activists got seasick, but the people here were so happy when we arrived."

Halper, speaking by phone from Gaza, said the U.S.-based Free Gaza movement had worked for two years to arrange and finance the voyage.

He said he was surprised that the Israeli navy did not interfere with the boats, which left Cyprus on Friday. On board were 46 activists from 17 countries, including an 81-year-old Catholic nun and former British prime minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law, Lauren Booth. Blair is currently the envoy for the Quartet, a group of Middle East peace mediators comprising the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.

Israel continues to control the territorial waters off Gaza and has sharply limited the amount of goods allowed into the strip since the Islamist Hamas movement, which Israel and the United States consider a terrorist group, seized power there last year. Israeli officials say that they have allowed food and medicine into the territory but that they hope to encourage residents to overthrow Hamas. Since June 19, Israel and Hamas have observed a cease-fire, although about 40 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Aryeh Mekel said Israel had decided not to stop the boats from landing in Gaza to diminish media attention.

"We took away the drama," Mekel said. "They came, they were welcomed, but what will they do tomorrow? They were hoping for a long confrontation with Israel — now they won’t have it."

Mekel said that the decision did not set a precedent and that future cases will be examined on their merits. But Halper said he believed the Free Gaza movement had in fact broken the siege of Gaza.
"Now that we’ve come through, what’s the excuse to keep the third boat out or the 10th boat or the 100th? We did break the economic siege of Gaza," he said.

Halper said at least one of the boats will sail back to Cyprus in the next few days, adding that activists hope to take with them Palestinian students who have permission to study in U.S. universities but were unable to obtain exit permits from Israel. It is Halper’s first visit to Gaza since the summer of 2000, before the beginning of the second Israeli-Palestinian intifada. It is illegal for Israeli citizens to enter Gaza or the West Bank without permission, and he said he is likely to be arrested when he returns to Israel.

Activists on the boat had earlier complained that Israel was jamming the boat’s electronic equipment, an assertion Mekel called "a complete lie." Palestinian journalists who set out to meet the boats said they were forced to turn back after the Israeli navy fired warning shots at them. An Israeli army spokeswoman said no shots were fired at the boats.
Halper said that the Palestinians had asked for 9,000 hearing aids but that the group had the money to purchase 200. He said the frequent sonic booms of Israeli aircraft over Gaza had damaged the hearing of many Gazan children.

The Free Gaza activists said they hoped Saturday’s landing would improve the situation of the Strip’s 1.4 million Palestinians.

"We recognize that we’re two humble boats, but what we’ve accomplished is to show that average people from around the world can mobilize to create change," said Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian American. "We do not have to stay silent in the face of injustice. Reaching Gaza today, there is such a sense of hope, and hope is what mobilizes people everywhere." 

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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1835521,00.html


Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008


Breaking the Gaza Blockade

By Tim McGirk/Gaza City

The Palestinians in Gaza don’t get many visitors. That’s because the Israelis have imposed an air, land and sea blockade since 2007 when Islamic militants seized control of the coastal strip on the Mediterranean, making it impossible for friends to just drop by. So when two vessels loaded with 46 peace activists arrived on Saturday, thousands of Palestinians lined the harbor in a party mood. Fishing scows honked their foghorns and swarms of kids swam out to the arriving boats just as the sun was turning the water to molten reds and gold.

It was a remarkable odyssey for the two battered ships of the "Free Gaza" movement, a U.S.-based pro-Palestinian group, which set out from Cyprus on Friday morning with few hopes of reaching Gaza. The activists, who hail from 14 countries, said that before they even set sail, they faced anonymous death threats, the mysterious drowning of one potential sponsor, and constant badgering by Israeli spies badly disguised as guitar-strumming hippies. "They kept popping up, everywhere," said Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, an organizer. "They were really annoying."

Once at sea, the activists — who include an 81-year old nun, a Greek leftist parliamentarian and the sister-in law of ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair — braved a squall and a bizarre communications blackout, which they say was caused by lsraeli electronic jamming, and which thwarted a rendezvous in heaving seas between peace activists and a ship of journalists.

The biggest danger they faced was possible arrest by the Israelis. Earlier, Israel had declared Gaza’s waters to be a "designated maritime zone" and warned the peace activists to steer clear or face arrest. At one point, says Palestinian-American law professor Huwaida Arraf who joined the activists, the radar picked up three vessels which were shadowing them from just over the horizon. The "Free Gaza" crew presumes the ships were Israeli.

But Israel chose to play nice, letting the peaceniks into Gaza on a once-only pass instead of acting the part of a high seas ogre. "They wanted a provocation at sea, but they won’t get it," explained Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Aviv Shiron.

Now, Israel has to contend with a barrage of international media coverage of the two peace vessels sailing into Gaza harbor — and the publicity boon this will give to the Hamas militants who have ruled Gaza since June 2007 when they split with Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, who governs from the Palestinian inland enclave in the West Bank.

Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Ismael Haniyeh, personally welcomed the activists. Israel and Hamas are sworn enemies (the Islamic militants say they want to destroy the Jewish state) but nonetheless they agreed to a cease-fire in June that has largely held firm.

The cruise into Gaza was bracingly celebrity-free. As Jeff Halper, the sole Israeli aboard the "Free Gaza" flotilla, says: "We didn’t have anybody famous. It was old-fashioned ‘people power.’ We just wanted to show what happens when ordinary people from around the world get together to try breaking this immoral siege on Gaza."

With international backing, Israel in 2007 clamped a strict economic boycott on the territory’s 1.5 million inhabitants, barring all but a minimum of humanitarian aid to the Hamas-controlled enclave. Some Palestinians at dockside grumbled that the activists should have brought in more relief supplies — they came only with 200 hearing aids for children and 5,000 balloons. But as Godfrey-Goldstein says, "We never intended for this to be a humanitarian mission. It’s about human rights in Gaza."

The next question: how will the peace activists get out of Gaza? The Israelis will probably allow them to sail back to Cyprus, without much shore leave in the Palestinian territory. It will be an especially circuitous and watery route home for Halper, who usually lives in Jerusalem. "It’s funny. From Gaza, I’m only an hour from home. I should be able to go home by bus, but instead I have to go back to Cyprus and then fly to Israel," says Halper. Still, the voyage home should be far less of an ordeal than it was running through Israel’s sea barricade.