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Breaking: IDF intercepts Global Sumud Flotilla near Gaza
(www.abc.net.au)
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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.
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?