People say it's a publicity stunt. Well so what. Greta knows if she goes, cameras and reporters will follow. It's the same thing Lady Diana did when traveling to 3rd world nations....she knew that she alone wouldn't make a difference, but the cameras and reporters that follow her would.
Greta is doing what most of us only discuss....helping. and if she helps by keeping Isreal's hypocrisy in the news, then she wins.
Hard to say its a publicity stunt when it isn't the first time she's doing it.
They one who says that are troll because it is not a Publicity stunt when you are going to the door steps of a fascist military organization that have no regards of any human life "including their own" and will not hesitate shooting you down or imprisoned you for unknown time.
Ah shit here we go again. What's ironic is that the Zionazis could get an easy PR win by letting them in to distribute aid but that would interfere with their long term extermination goals.
it would also interfere with their immediate goal of openly being cartoonishly evil.
Zionazis could get an easy PR win
In liberal corners of the United States and Europe, maybe. But in Israel this would be viewed as a humiliation and a defeat.
Oh boy! I'm prepared before reading the comments this time around!
They are right about the haircut though.
That being said, genocide through purposeful mass starvation is quite possibly the most heinous crime that exists. God bless anyone does anything at all to fight against it
free Palestine from the river to the sea ♥️🖤💚🤍
I don't get the criticism. They either get the food through or the press following her is going to film the Israeli navy blocking the food from entering the shore.
Ahh so this is that Greta van Fleet I been hearing about.
why is it called a floatilla
Not trying to be a smart ass but what do u suggest it's be called? A convoy? Maybe a fleet?
I'm mobile and can't verify anything, but if you trust a goggle AI Overview then here you go.
The word "flotilla" originates from the Spanish word flotilla, a diminutive form of flota meaning "fleet". This, in turn, came from Old French floter and ultimately Germanic roots, like Old Norse floti ("raft, fleet") and Old English flota ("ship" or "fleet"), which are ancestors of the English word "float". The English term "flotilla" was adopted in 1711 and refers to a small fleet, especially of small naval vessels like destroyers or submarines. Here's a breakdown of the word's origin: Spanish: Flotilla (diminutive of flota, meaning "fleet"). Old French: Floter ("to float, set afloat"). Germanic: Old Norse floti ("raft, fleet") and Old English flota ("ship, fleet"). Indo-European: Traced back to the root pleu- ("to flow"). The English word "flotilla" was first recorded in 1711.
I don't understand why they are publicizing this. Wouldn't it be easier to 'slip by' under cover of night or whatever smuggler-esque strategies there are?
The point isn't to get supplies to Gaza, it's to put eyeballs on the fact that Israel is preventing supplies from getting into Gaza.
So alleviating their suffering isn't the objective, rather to point out that they are suffering?
I think it’s more that one delivery is a drop in the bucket while achieving a constant stream of deliveries (e.g. the public puts enough pressure on their respective governments) could meaningfully address the problem
The objective is to draw attention to the famine that Israel is causing by publicising how Israel blocks the entry of aid with a very tangible example.
They're going to get stopped either way. A flotilla of 27 civilian ships isn't sneaking past one of the most advanced, heavily armed navies in the world, no matter how "sneaky" they try to be.
At least this way they're on record for stopping the delivery.
if they try to sneak for sure they are getting killed
They just don't expect to be allowed through. If they are, great! Then they'd do this again with an even bigger flotilla, and keep helping people as long as they're allowed to.
However, what they expect to happen is that they'll be stopped. So they're making sure they're positioned to take full advantage of that, too.
I understand it better now, clearly there are others that didn't like my question. I guess there are 'stupid' questions to ask.
But regardless, the take for me is that they are taking more a 'martyrdom' sort of approach, which I completely respect.
To point out its purposeful starvation. Israel claims they don’t have to,provide aid, it’s a war. This points out the hypocrisy that Israel are preventing peaceful aid. Israel are using hunger and famine as a weapon of war, to eliminate a people. Aka genocide and war crimes,
it's a illegal blockage, if they tried to do it in secret it would 100% fail, it's a humanitarian aid flotilla, not a military stealth ship.
if anything the more public eyes on this the better.
Because it is a publicity stunt.
"Publicity stunt" is just a pejorative description of activism, in this case.
because they dont want to get there they want the headlines when they are turned away
No, it won't be easier. Israel has all the tools to intercept them
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