The Irish aid ship Rachel Corrie continues on course to break the Gaza blockade. The Prime Minister of Ireland has called upon neighbouring powers to allow the aid ship free passage.
Italian citizens dragged from other aid ships by piratical state action in international waters and falsely imprisoned are demanding to be charged with any known offence under law.
Italian television and media continues to decry the behaviour of rogue elements of the state of Israel in their assault upon the lives of others.
Australian journalist Paul McGeough (56), an Irish-born journalist and chief correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, who has reported from the Middle East for two decades, is among those held in a detention camp in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva.
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We heard today that they are safe, small mercy, but refusing to sign deportation papers, if they sign they will not be able to return to Israel for 10 years. Mr P.P.is also hopping mad. A.A
It was eery, A, watching such behaviour on all the various Newses. Of course it's all a bit close to here, physically, and there is always the barely submerged geopolitical stand-off that is the Mediterranean and who is the regional power.
Even eerier was realising that one of the Smalls was in the Ghetto playing the other evening and suddenly feeling very uneasy about that. Imagine, being made uneasy about part of central Rome and whether there was going to be trouble. It was back to the anni di piombo feelings.
Ghetto was beautiful and not uneasy although it does give me the creeps to think what went on there during fascism.
Now it's just full of rich romans who live there/american tourists in their vests and flipflops (actually not so many of those in the Ghetto, they tend to stay in Campo dei fiori)
Were the carciofi very delicious? Are the tortoises holding up in the fountain?
Did it all look grand, and dark, and mysterious - (except for the flip-flopped)? Awfully grand, Rome. Seriously beautiful, the Ghetto, and, as you say, full of memories.
Israeli friends tell me that in the services there is sung music they had never heard, of great antiquity, and which they knew had existed but had though was lost.
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