Last night I met a passenger - Archbishop Ilarion Kaputce. He is in charge of a church called Santa Maria in Rome and he lives in the Vatican. He was Archbishop in Jerusalem from 1964. In 1974 he was sentenced to 12 years in Israeli prison for the charge of helping the Palestinian resistance. He spent 4 years in prison in Israel. The Pope then intervened on his behalf and he was released to Rome. On arrival in Rome he discovered the condition of his release - he must never return to Palestine. He said if he had known this he would have rather stayed in prison.
He is coming on the ships to Gaza.
The archbishop is being looked after by a man called Nabil who I met and he introduced me. Nabil is instantly likeable with a sense of humour and lots of energy, he's been working on the upcoming
Summer University of Palestine to be held in Lebanon in the last weekend of July.
I hope the Archibishop finally gets the death sentence he truly deserves. Free Israel!
ReplyDeletegod, you really are a prick, whoever you are - why on earth would you want to condemn a man of peaceful religion to a death sentence? You should go away and examine your prejudices before allowing your hands to touch the keyboard.
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