Was anyone expecting they wouldn’t?
No, but it forces the issue of Israel intentionally terror-starving Palestinians to come back up and Israel can’t help but self-own by calling aid organizations Hamas
Are the flotilla recognised as legal humanitarian aid providers? I understand from other threads that Israel is legally required to allow humanitarian aid through. I assume here this would mean recognized humanitarian aid. Else it would be akin to just random people trying to run a blockade without a legally recognized reason, which would not put the IDF in the ‘legal’ wrong.
Their subsequent treatment of the flotilla and it’s crew is something else to discuss of course
I don’t even know if there’s such a thing as ‘legal humanitarian aid’ as opposed to an ‘illegal’ one.
“Legal” who is enforcing these international laws that we can all see Israel breaking? Think about this situation as how colonialist America legally took over all of the Native American land and exterminated them “legally”. It is the same story. Meanwhile Israeli settlers enjoy free universal healthcare and schooling the United States funds.
A bit of a tangent but just today I watched a short about the history of what British colonialist did to the Hijra in India.
Basically they went over there and went “more than two genders? THAT’S ILLEGAL.”
Yet nowadays we have transphobes always reciting how it’s somehow a woke new thing to not have the sexual sensibilities of a Victorian British person.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_India#Colonial-era
It’s just so weird to give a fuck about how other people choose to live their lives with a literal child molester and human trafficker in the White House, a protected British royal child molester and a rapist on the Supreme Court. It’s really sick. Just let peaceful people exist in their own way. The gender role structure of how people should act and feel is all based on colonialist pseudoscience.
Israel is legally required to allow humanitarian aid through.
Oh honey…
Standing question as to how far they’d get. With Italian and Turkish support, there was some amount of speculation as to whether the IDF would risk a shooting war with a NATO state over a handful of civilian protesters doing an aquatic sit-in.
What’s extra crazy is that they’re being arrested 80 miles off the coast in international waters, dragged into Israel, forced at gunpoint to sign deportation orders, and then being forced out again. That is, of course, assuming none of the soldiers decide to kill one or more of them along the way.
No but now there will be massive strikes in Spain and Italy that will shut down a bunch of stuff. Boycotting and sanctioning a country is a step by step process and this pours a lot of fuel on the fire that is the international anger at Israel.
We expected it and we can’t condemn it because abducting people is wrong
What?
It looks like the IDF boarded two largest vessels but at this point they’re unable to stop the rest.
Edit: three vessels have been captured and activists were taken by IDF. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-flotilla-activists-5c9c5e9baa4fc893a0f6e6eef69b280c
The smart move would’ve been to make the boat that Thunberg is on a decoy, and put all of the aid on other ships. Let them target her while the actual aid slips past.
Kidnapped by IDF
