Home | Friday 16th July 2010 | Issue 731
FIGHT OR FLIGHT
Activists in Athens delayed an El Al flight to Israel this Wednesday (14th). Thirty demonstrators from the Greek Leftist organisation, PAME, swooped in to block five check-in counters, in protest against Israel’s genocidal policies. Being an international airport there was a sizeable police presence but they decided not to muscle in. Flight 542 to Tel Aviv left the runaway two hours late as a result. “This was an action taken in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their effort to establish a Palestinian state,” said union spokesman Giorgos Pontikos.
The incident coincided with a Libyan ship trying to break Israel’s monopoly over the coastal waters of Gaza. They were eventually turned back after a face-off with Israeli navy vessels – avoiding a repeat of June’s murderous attack on the Freedom flotilla (see SchNEWS 725). They subsequently docked in Egypt to unload their 2000 tons of aid for transportation overland.
