On Hamas Flotilla Nonsense
July 12, 2011 1 Comment
Kudos to Greece. It momentarily stopped the latest Gaza flotilla nonsense, for now. That is responsible and real.
Greece announced a ban last week on vessels headed to Gaza and arrested the captain of an American ship for leaving port without permission over the weekend.
The “Gaza flotilla” has always been a publicity stunt – never about “humanitarian aid.” The murderous Hamas gets pretty much whatever it wants through the sieve of the Egyptian border, and elsewhere. And by the way, the Gazan population is better off than it has been for decades, thanks to the influx of all manner of aid – including through Israeli borders.
But Hamas won’t miss an opportunity to make Israel look bad. And so while its minions lob missiles into Israel hoping they kill Jews, it also orchestrates “flotillas” for “freedom” – ostensibly to “break the blockade” that “prevents humanitarian aid getting to Gaza.” And that is how profoundly stupid Hamas believes we are. And by the way, we are.
Hasna El Maroudi, 26, can be described as a “Dutch pro-Palestinian activist/journalist of Moroccan descent.” She had planned to join other activists aboard a Dutch ship to Gaza, until she learned that she would be going on a secret Hamas-organized mission, and cancelled her participation.
The two-state solution – the solution – turns on marginalizing Hamas. Hamas-orchestrated flotilla stunts empower Hamas and push a Palestinian state further and further away.
Wasn’t this in large part a response from the Israelis who may have in fact paid the Greeks, (recently strapped for cash) to prevent something that would look better to the world community than if they had done it.
I agree that this “Gaza flotilla” was a political move in large part by Hamas rather than humanitarian effort on their part but to expect the Greeks to really care that much about this detail in the on-going Israeli/Palestinian conflict is a bit of a leap, no?