Sunday, October 13, 2013

John Greyson Says He's Eager to Return to Egypt--How Crazy Is That?

Is he a glutton for punishment? A masochist? An ingrate?

All three?:
LONDON, Ont. - If it were up to him, Toronto filmmaker John Greyson said he’d go back to Egypt.

“We’re stubborn, we’re going back,” Greyson said in a telephone interview Saturday, a day after he and London, Ont., emergency room doctor Tarek Loubani returned to Canada after being held in an Egyptian prison for 50 days.
Greyson's fellow pro-Hamas/anti-Israel activist isn't quite as antsy to go back:
“We are interested in doing good work, we want to do things that make sense and we are not risk takers,” Loubani said. 
“I hate risk. I like planning. I like to understand what I am doing and I like doing things in a very careful way. That’s what we are going to do going forward. If there is no way to safely get to Gaza, then guess what? We are not going to go,” he said. “We know that work here in London or any other part of the world is just as valuable. There are people who need help, there are lots of things that can be done.”
How true. Things like, say, marching under the Queers Against Israeli Apartheid banner in Toronto's annual gay pride parade. 

Hey, why go to some squalid backwater when you can spread blood libels in the comfort of your own backyard, to the plaudits of other bien pensants who share your outlook?

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