The Flotilla Will Sail For Gaza Alright, But Will It Reach It?

After months and months of waiting and wild speculations, our widely unpopular copycat of the Turkish freedom flotilla will finally leave for Gaza on Sunday. But will it reach its destination?

The Mariam, renamed in honour of the Virgin Mary, would need Cypriot authorisation to depart for Gaza from its shores but officials in Cyprus have said the island was keeping in place a ban on ships departing for Gaza.”The Cypriot ambassador to Lebanon tried to convince us not to go and reiterated that his country would not grant us authorisation to sail to Gaza,” Hajj told AFP.

As I said again and again: This is an embarrassing farce.