Champion of freedom of speech
I’ve just seen someone’s blog from Tel Aviv. He was so angry at my daring to speak out [about treatment of arabs in israel] he said it would have been better if I’d stayed chained up to that radiator in Lebanon!
IMAGINE being kidnapped at gunpoint and held hostage for five years, never knowing if you would see your loved ones again. Would you go back after being rescued? Journalist John McCarthy did. The lure of the Middle East, strong since childhood, was increased by his ordeal in the Lebanon between 1986 and 1991. He discovered a sense of identity, and empathy with everyone who felt threatened, lost, or without a home.
