Sorry for the lady with cancer, but maybe if she came with family or a friend, not on the flytilla thing, that is ovbious procation, than it would be more beleivable she may want to pray for her health in Bethlehem and I am sure she would have had no problem coming through Israel, as many tourist do. Again, great propaganda!!!!

and please spare the crocodile tears #7. Anyone genuinely ill and wanting to make a pilgrimage would come the way all the ppilgrims do, with an organized group, usually with their vicar. So stop the big BS, just think you lie!

Are there any other people who in your 'humble' opinion should also be exempt from the ban on anti-semitic 'activists' entering Israel purely to stir up trouble? So far you've proposed two categories one based on gender the other on health grounds in a crude attempt to whip up passions against a legitimate decision by the Israeli government which enjoys widespread support from the Israeli public who are fed up with idiots turning up on their doorstep thinking they have the right to dictate to a sovereign, elected government and the Israeli electorate. Even if you weren't such a piss poor advocate for the ‘cause’ you couldn't hide the underlying anti-semitism of the 'anti-Israel' campaign which characteristically remains silent on the savage human rights abuses taking place all over the arab world and beyond to demonise Israel which happens to be the only democracy in the region and a veritable paradise compared to the brutal dictatships you choose to ignore!

Quebec is the hot bed of French Canadian antisemitism. There are of course some lonely intelligent voices but the majority of French Quebecois are disgusting anti-semites. Glad to see that the like of Julie Lachapelle are given the boot by Israel! Well done!

about these loony activists. Why? Because there are more interesting and constructive activities in which to engage. The "last stand" flower children of the 70's are the most pathetic of the activists. The only thing the cancerous 73 year old geriatric proves is her extremist malady in her old age. She should be at home looking after her ailing health. Indeed, her children should lock her in her room for her own protection and prevent her from traipsing off on this mad venture. No doubt, she is suffering from dementia along with her cancer. The whole exercise is stupid and based on hatred and the activists only expose their true hateful and obsessed selves - not to mention their idleness. Israel is absolutely correct to employ measures to prevent these a$$holes from engaging in provocative actions in its territory. It is all legal and practised internationally and it galls the hatemongers, including those on this board, that Israel has means at its disposal to intercept their stupid project. The pro-activists' comments are just hilarious.

You have excelled your usual self this time. I was about to post something similar but on reading your contribution I concluded that it would be futile as you had already stated the obvious and certainly with more "Sarah B finesse" than I could have done. Instead I shall relate an anecdote that I picked up in the Readers Digest some 50 years ago and has always stuck in my mind. An elderly English couple arrived at New York airport and were confronted by the signs at immigration, "US Citizens", "Foreign Nationals". They turned to an officer and asked him politely, "excuse me officer, we are British, which way do we go". The Empire is dead and long gone but plus ca change !

Ignore them my foot. Are you going to ignore some trouble makers from entering your town? No you wont & you know it.

Every country in the world can decided who it lets in to its country and who is chooses not to let in. Time has come for Israel to make everyone who wants to visit apply for a visa before hand. This will stop all these left wing Jew haters coming to Israel just to cause problems. Jet 2 thank you will fly with you again this summer.

you would be surprised to find out that many of the people who take part in these events also take part in other humanitarian works, It was not an attempt to whip up passions as you put it but more of a statement of fact,people will see what happens to the flytilla participants and then they will times that by 10 and presume that is what Palestinians have to go through on a daily basis. Ghandis protests were exposing the brutality of the British rule MLK protests were exposing the brutality shown toward black people in America In Palestine Israel has the media under the thumb but these people will return with their stories and video footage of crimes made against them for excuses as lame as those Ghandi and MLK had to endure

All British people are criminals,yeah i get it

"The protestor's have already won" Won what? They have exposed themselves as the eternal idiots they are. May they continue to win like this....amen!

so, if many of you take part in other flytillas all over the world, WHY DIDN'T YOU GET A TWO WAY FLIGHT INTO SYRIA...JUST TO REMIND YOU, 11,000 INNOCENTS HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED BY SYRIAN ARMY SO FAR. where have your buddies been???? are you not going to take flytillas there as well. damascus is so close to israel. you can kill two birds with one stone.

that follow. Great news !

for the last 65 years. In the meantime Israel is ahead and all the Euro/other trash is far behind. What has your nasty kind accomplished? Nothing of value! Where are your Syrias and Egypts these days? And that is where you and the Palestinian terrorism/ugliness you support will always be. You are nothing but a pathetic, pitiful kind mired in hatred and ignorance.

For a start using emotional blackmail to cover the lack of substance in your posts is contemptible! As for your last comment!! 'In Palestine Israel has the media under the thumb'. What are talking about you fool? Israel has an independent media which is often highly critical of the government, settlers and any other group or policy they choose to oppose. Or are you referring perhaps to the palestinian press which is heavily censored by the palestinian authority and/or other palestinian parties/organisations and which is only ever allowed to demonise and vilify Israel and Jews often in a very crude anti-semitic way at least if their journalists want to stay alive! And finally you would be surprised to find out that many of the people who take part in these events also take part in other humanitarian works' What's that got to do with the price of sugar? It's a complete non sequitur! And 'video footage of crimes'. What crimes are these then that predictably you fail to even mention? Presumably Israeli security forces acting to maintain law and order! Are you sure you can even find Israel on a map? You've done yourself no favours writing such nonsense and just come across as bigoted and highly ignorant!

I love the comments about 'occupation from someone from Britain. The GREAT BRITISH EMPIRE, with a 'cum laude Oxford degree for occupying, on the brink of losing another part of their occupied land (Scotland) and where, in the far away Malvinas (Falklands) your occupying Prince William is flying around, patroling his empire. Maybe you havn't noticed, but the whole Middle East mess is 'because of the British and their unsatiable lust for power.

"It never crossed my mind that Israel could stop people with British passports leaving British airports," Now she knows

It will be Israel's response to this peaceful protest that will hurt Israel the most. Just as before when you killed Rachel Corrie by running her over in a bulldozer and then gloating about it afterwards ,its not pretty and every time this brutal hard line is taken against unarmed people it will always go against you. chip chip chip

Leon, I truly hope that you are not a Jew? You have no idea of the real truth, such is the effect of the brain washing program you've succumbed to. Also, you have no right, period, to lecture me as a Jew in Israel, as what I need to do to satisfy world opnion. There is an active branch of world opinion that rejected to accept Jewish refugees into their countries, and allowed them to be shipped back to die under nazi hands. That poisonous branch is still growing and entwinning itself around willing accusers of our people, like yourself. So if you are a Jew, than I strongly recommend getting a reality check before choking your own roots. If you're not a Jew, I couldn't give a damn for your myopic insight!

step out of your door in London and be in Gaza. Then you will get it! That day is not that far off. What goes around comes around! We will get the last laugh!

Kudos David, for a fine post.

...from sitting and facing in the wrong direction. Don't despair..due to the fact that Israel's a democracy, you'll always find some idiots in the Israeli government with whom you can be in total agreement...Shall we start with Tibi?

To Sarah B: I have mixed feelings about the flytilla and its participants. If a 1s time (no other actons agin Israel), detain them, take their wallets, rings, etc. and put them on the next flight out. If they want to go to Syria, thats okay by me. If repeaters, detain, incarcerate, try in a court of law for spying and mayhem, and sentence 15 to life. in the Negev, a prison similar to that Sheriff in Arizona. Dress them in red..no frills, an attorney once only. No TVS, cell phones, air-conditioners..but a radio is okay. Food fasts, meet with solitary..like Charles Manson. These people are the vanguard of the greater Jihad threatened every day, and spread of the caliphate..starting with Israel. They must be dealt with harshly.

Thank you very much for your kind words. And I love that anecdote! Plus ca change, indeed!

French Canadian anti-Semite. Kind of redundant, isn't it? Talk about primitive .... ever been up in Lac St. Jean? "Anti-Semite" isn't the half of it!

Sara... Kol Hakavod for all the time and energy you put in rebutteling and making things straight. I appreciate your voice, time and energy you put for our beautiful Israel. Don't let anybody discourage you continue to speak your mind. Again Kol Hakavod!!!

Although I'm for stopping the known trouble making hard liners, this action of Israel does not fit a democratic country.

Thank you so much for your kind words! To me, the State of Israel is not just a cause, it is a passion and my reason for being. I will never be diverted, and I am not shy about speaking my mind!

Please name one country that doesn't deny entry to undesirable aliens. Besides the Netherlands, I mean. You people are up to your eyeballs in crap, and have done nothing about it. You sit back passively and ignore the fact that one of your leading filmmakers was murdered because he dared -- DARED -- criticize Islam. Frankly, if the Netherlands goes the way of the woolly mammoth it will be no skin of my -- or anyone else's -- ass, but you people REALLY need to work out the road upon you wish to travel.