Ann Wright on the wreckage of an international humanitarian aid boat reaching the shores of Gaza as historical allegory.
By Ann Wright
Gaza flotilla boats have become like Palestinians. They, like Palestinians, have been attacked, beaten, partially destroyed and thrown to the four winds by a brutal, violent Israeli government.
Some of the 2026 Gaza flotilla boats were purposefully damaged so severely by Israeli military forces that they sank, like Palestinians who are under the genocidal rubble of endless criminal Israeli bombings.
After two brutal interceptions in international waters in April and May, many resilient Gaza flotilla boats have been found floating in a variety of places around the Mediterranean, just as Palestinians as refugees are found all over the world.
Flotilla boats been found adrift off the Turkish coast, some have been found off Crete, two have been found off Lebanon, one in Egypt and several have been found near Cyprus.
Palestinians Welcome a Flotilla Boat to Gaza
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In an allegory to Palestinian history with Palestinian homes bombed into pieces from Israeli government violence, one flotilla boat, the KASR-Sadabad, found its way to Gaza where it washed ashore at the beach Mawasi Khan Yunis… in pieces, where Palestinians lovingly welcomed the boat and pulled large pieces ashore.
For the first time since 2008, an international boat, although in pieces, reached the shores of Gaza.
Ann Wright served in the U.S. Army/Army Reserves for 29 years and retired as a colonel. She was also a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and served in U.S. embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She is the co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience. She has been with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition since 2010, has been put in Israeli prison twice for attempting to break the illegal Israeli naval blockade on Gaza and has been on segments of flotillas in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2024.
The views expressed are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Consortium News.
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And the western world basically still keeps just watching.
Llegar hechos-as pedazos, no da espeza. Reconstruir los pedazos, volver a navegar y cumplir el deso de muchos, sí.
Arriving in pieces doesn’t give you strength. Rebuilding the pieces, sailing again, and fulfilling the desire of many, does.
with footnotes after each Stanza –
Evil Lies of the BBC
All through the wracked, weeping warnings
Western leaders wear fictitious Smiles
Disgrace the Stage of Olympic Games
And any Vestiges of peace at FIFA’s World Cup
They Foist the Farce that we are Free
Fiendish powers that be
Sociopaths hell bent determined
To perpetrate Infanticide, and Genocides
And rush out evil lies of the BBC
On the Infanticide In iraq in the 1990’s, of 500.000 Children –
” Yes, we thought the price was worth it ”
– Madeleline Albright – Then Clinton’s Ambassador to the UN –
In a May 1996, 60 Minutes TV intrview,
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=gxmHtW5kuEs
All through Sceams of Despairing
Silence Tells, Carnage may be music to Western Leaders ears
The very air Rips apart, as war planes Bomb
Now silence in sterilised Rubble Cities
And Western silence too, as innocents flee
Vile propaganda praises powers that be
International courts crawling in the dark
Can’t riase to weild their world given laws
Can’t curb evil lies of the BBC
” We came, we saw, he died ”
Hillary Clinton – Then US Secretary of State.
The Remark made with a Gleeful Laugh, during an October 20, 2011 TV intrview –
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=jY93bW_1SkI
All through the Genocide laughing
Weld their names to guide Impatient Misles
School Kids Too, Sign bombs bound for schools
Protests supressed, the world over trying
To save Palestine from the river to the sea
But vicious powers that be
Sneer and laugh in our Faces,
Queue Western Complicit ovations
Queue Evil Lies of the BBC
” I wanted to Encourage My soldiers by raping Arab Girls as the Palestinian Woman is a slave for Jews,
and we do as we please with her –
Ariel Sharon, prime minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006,
” Wipe out their families, their mothers and their children. These animals must not be allowed to live any longer, ” 95-year-old army reservist, Ezra Yachin.
” Bomb their Children, not their infrstrucure, parents deserve to see their children die.It took us Two years to do this in Gaza, we still havent done it in Lebanon yet ”
– Israeli academic Orit Perlov, 22 march 2026
– The above ( Fron Footnotes of Stanza Three ) Is Only a Very Small Fraction of Hate Speech Quotes By various Israeli’s
Prof Seyed Marandi:
‘The BBC is so sinister, so evil. One of their journalists claimed Iranians want nukes used against them”
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And Lastly ( Stanza Three )
From – Garden of Roses, By Sa’di – Thirteenth Centuary Iranian Poet –
You who are withoutsorrow for the suffering of others,
You do not deserve to be called human