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Who is complaining that he was roughed up by his captors locked in a cell denied free communication with the outside world Gilad Shalit? Or David Heap, a flotillista whose silence on Shalit makes me…

Pesach Benson
November 7, 2011
12:00 am

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Who is complaining that he was

roughed up by his captors
locked in a cell
denied free communication with the outside world

Gilad Shalit? Or David Heap, a flotillista whose silence on Shalit makes me retch?

Take a guess.

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Tags: David Heap, Flotilla, Freedom Wave, Gilad Shalit

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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