Posted on 11/22/2023 12:56:59 PM PST by DFG
Approximately 1,000 boats will gather in Turkey on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime trade coming into Israel during the war with Hamas, in an apparent repeat of similar attempts from over a decade ago.
In an interview with Turkish news website Haber7, Volkan Okçu, one of the organizers of the protest, indicated the boats will carry 4,500 people from 40 countries, “including anti-Zionist Jews.”
Among the 1,000 vessels would be 313 boats filled with Russian activists, and 104 filled with Spanish activists, he said. Only 12 Turkish vessels will join the flotilla, he told Haber7.
greet the so-called 'Freedom Flotilla.' (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) Approximately 1,000 boats will gather in Turkey on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime trade coming into Israel during the war with Hamas, in an apparent repeat of similar attempts from over a decade ago.
In an interview with Turkish news website Haber7, Volkan Okçu, one of the organizers of the protest, indicated the boats will carry 4,500 people from 40 countries, “including anti-Zionist Jews.”
Among the 1,000 vessels would be 313 boats filled with Russian activists, and 104 filled with Spanish activists, he said. Only 12 Turkish vessels will join the flotilla, he told Haber7.
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A thousand boats from Turkey???
More like a Turkey shoot.
1)- Sieze the vessels
2)- Drop the passengers and crews off on the scenic beaches of Club Gaza for the duration for an extended vacation. I hear bomb craters beat beach chairs every time.
3) - Impound the boats and any military cargoes at an IDF controlled port for a very long and detailed inspection for terrorist gear. This may require substantial disassembly of the impounded boat.
4) - Charge the owners storage fees. With a 1000 boats to impound space will be at a premium so owners can expect to pay a premium storage price
Only 14 of the boats are from Turkey. The rest are peaceniks from all over. Could be a public relations nightmare for Israel depending on how they handle it. Usually they just intercept and tow these flotilla boats to Ashdod but if there’s a thousand that’s gonna be hard to do.
Lordy, I hope they're not dumb enough to poke at a carrier.
Target practice.
A few mines should change their minds. War is hell.
I agree. Seize the boats and put the people ashore in Gaza. Let them fend for themselves.
Western Mediterranean
Close enough!
more up in the Dardaneles and Black Sea
I liked the link.
Sink them all.
L
Battle of Lepanto part 2
Maybe we should round up and send the huge caravans headed north to our border to Turkey and put them on the flotilla to Gaza. There are millions we could send and help Turkey and Hamas out.
Yep. The nautical boundaries are set. Warn them that if they cross them, they are enemy combatants in a war zone. Use apaches to sink them. F16s for the bigger ones. Tank fire and coax machineguns for SeaDoos and inflatables that get through.
Shoot their motors out US Coast Guard-style with a .50 cal and leave them adrift.
It seems ill advised.
—”Aren’t Scylla and Charybdis close by?”
It has been some time since Odysseus (AKA Ulysses) put the band back together and he may not want to toss six of his best to the beast.
“That which we are, we are
One equal temper of heroic hearts
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”
They are some of my personal heroes and still in the game, but not the best reaction times.
not globalists, Russia
1/3 of the boats are Russian
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