When the Israeli forces picked him up, Larudee said, he was severely beaten and tied to a mast at the stern of their ship. His legs and hands were bound as he was subjected to the hot sun in wet soaking clothes for four hours. He said his body almost went into shock from the extreme hot and cold conditions.
The soldiers refused to release him unless he told them his name. He repeatedly refused, but said he would cooperate only if they released him from the mast. They finally agreed and took him below deck. "For the remainder of the trip to the port, we got along fine," he said.
In Turkey they published photos of the troops in the middle of their beatings, because the papers felt (in their own words) it was important to show the IDF wasn't invincible, that their soldiers would cry when beat with enough sticks. Gee that must have taken a lot of scientific experimentation for them to finally figure out, if that's how they think.
