Former Welsh newspaper editor says being kidnapped by Israel was worse than being imprisoned by the Taliban

So, in your opinion, innocent civilians in a war zone are undeserving of nourishment which she was bring them?

The only people who would "pillor" her are weak, hate filled individuals who haven't got an ounce of courage to do anything as brave as what this lady did. Most of those "pilloring" individuals lead dormant boring lives, glued to their couches and getting up to go shopping for food is an adventure for them. Useless creatures.

"Frightening lack of self awareness"? She has first hand experience. Which is way more than many others can say. She was commenting on the state of Israeli prisons. Which quite frankly, are worse than you might expect for a country considered to be developed.

A few points about Yvonne Ridley’s actions and subsequent statements: She was kidnapped. Her ship was in international waters, and protected from violence by international law, when it was boarded by armed men who took her against her will and without legal authority or legal cause.She was travelling to Gaza, a part of Palestine which is recognised as an independent state by the U.K.She was not going there to fight, but to deliver aid, along with aid workers, journalists, writers, scholars, and members of various European parliaments. Such people have every legal right to enter war zones, and do so all over the world, all the time.She was going there with the intention of breaking an illegal blockade of humanitarian aid for a civilian population, who are being deliberately submitted to an artificial and unnecessary famine. Preventing civilians in war zones from receiving aid is a war crime, for which the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and other members of his government and senior officers of his armed forces, are wanted by the International Criminal Court.Nobody has to like or respect Yvonne Ridley (I don’t especially like or respect her myself) to understand these facts or their moral significance. The facts are not changed, nor is their moral significance reduced, by her religious views, her career choices, her way of life, her irritating personality, or anything else about her. If we jeer at Yvonne Ridley’s torture because we don’t like her, or we ignore the fact that she suffered crimes, we forfeit the right to be defended from crimes by people who don’t like us.Nobody has to be particularly unselfish, or even a vaguely decent individual (and it is apparent that some of the people commenting on this story are not), to see how this situation affects them. Despite travelling legally, she was kidnapped and tortured along with 12 other British citizens, by a state which Britain claims as an ally. Her government has done the bare minimum to help her, and has said nothing in public condemnation of the offence. I am opposing this, not because I am a nice person, but because I want my British passport to protect me from harm. The fact that the UK government are denying us this assurance, when the question of independence for Scotland and Wales is growing in importance, is a measure of their incompetence and stupidity.

Uk is complicit with the genocidal evil zionist government. Of course they should give her a flight home. Least they can do

They should have done. She's a british citizen who at the time had no means of her own. If the Foreign Office doesn't help British Citizens, then they have no purpose and further the British Passport holds no purpose. Every other nation takes responsibility for its citizens.

Well, not many people can say that they have been imprisoned by both Israeli forces and the Taliban.

This comment has an air of falsehood about it. You wouldn’t expect her to say anything else bearing in mind her background and the Stockholm Syndrome style outcome of her Taliban detention. I suspect she quite disturbed and damaged and has to have her comments taken very carefully.