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What Next - The Gaza Flotilla That’s Under Attack

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

With Gaza cut off from food and aid, activists have taken matters into their own hands, and are attempting to circumvent Israel’s blockade themselves via the Mediterranean.

Guest:  Zue Jernstedt, member of About Face: Veterans Against the War and participant on the Veterans Boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.


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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:07.0

He could spend days on end trying to sell to a bunch of time wasters.

0:13.0

Or selling a flash and head to the fun fair with the kids.

0:17.0

Proper gutted.

0:20.0

Or proper impressed. To get a quote in 30 seconds, enter your

0:25.2

edge number now at we buy any car.com.

0:27.4

If I was going to learn how to sail, I can imagine how I'd do it.

0:41.5

Maybe I'd watch YouTube or buy a book, take some lessons.

0:46.1

What I would not do is what Zoo Jernsted is doing.

0:50.7

Zoo has been learning to sail by bobbing around in a 46-foot sailboat in the middle of the Mediterranean.

1:00.4

Zoo, where are you right now?

1:03.1

I am off the coast of Crete.

1:06.3

Can you just look around? Tell me what you see.

1:09.2

Oh, it's gorgeous. This is the bluest water I've ever seen.

1:12.3

I've never, I've never been to Crete, so it looks very magical place. And you can kind of see

1:18.9

the dusty blue, like mountains of it off in the distance. It's really beautiful. Zoo is from

1:26.0

West Virginia. She's on the sailboat with 11 other people.

1:30.4

Many. Learning as they go.

1:32.8

The first night we sailed out from Barcelona, we hit a storm.

1:36.3

So all the boats got tossed around, and we found out real quick, who got seasick, and what boats weren't seaworthy.

1:41.9

So it was a very fast learning curve for us.

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