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2023-11-21 The Grand Turk
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1,000 boats said set to leave Turkey for Gaza waters in new ‘Freedom Flotilla’
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[IsraelTimes] Reminiscent of infamous 2010 Mavi Marmara protest, large maritime convoy plans to remain in international waters off Ashdod and disrupt sea trade route to Israel
Approximately 1,000 boats will gather
...and how many of that 1,000 will have to be rowboats to make up the numbers? in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
on Wednesday before heading toward Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime trade coming into Israel during the war with Hamas
 ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
, in an apparent repeat of similar attempts from over a decade ago.
In an interview with Ottoman Turkish news website Haber7, Volkan Okcu, one of the organizers of the protest, indicated the boats will carry 4,500 people from 40 countries,
...lessee: 4,500 people divided among 1,000 boats equals 4.5 persons/boat — oh dear, that will be a bloody mess, and all of them rowboats, too! To continue: If 1,000 boats, each containing four rowers taking it in turn, plus one half of a corpse doing nothing more than bleeding quietly and attracting flies, row 24 hours a day, how long will it take them to get from Istanbul to Gaza City (or whatever the Gaza port is called)? How much longer if the Israeli navy once again blockades the Gaza coast and guides them to the Haifa docks? "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 Ottoman Turkish vessels will join the flotilla, he told Haber7.
However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
Okcu said in a later tweet that he expected the number of Ottoman Turkish vessels to be much higher, at least 1,000, and insisted that the initiative is not associated with the Ottoman Turkish government. He did not explain the discrepancy in numbers.
Allah wills it. The details are in his hands. The activist indicated to Haber7 that the flotilla is scheduled to leave Ottoman Turkish coasts on Thursday.
On Thanksgiving Day? That’s not much time to kill 500 unbelievers and cut them neatly in half... The maritime convoy is set to make a first stop in Cyprus before continuing toward the Israeli port of Ashdod.
Ashdod? And how do they intend to get to Gaza from there? Some participants in the flotilla will also reportedly take their spouses and children on board.
As the song says, they’ve got to be carefully taught. Okcu said that the main objective of the operation would be to cause disruption in international waters off the Israeli coast to the maritime trade heading for the port of Ashdod, in order to interrupt the supply of goods to Israel for a week or even up to 10 days.
An act of war, technically, I do believe. But not Turkey’s first against Israel, so there’s that. The protest action is reminiscent of the attempt by the so-called "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" in May 2010, which tried to breach the maritime blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, but was intercepted by the Israeli Navy.
That was the work of IHH, the Humanitarian Relief Foundation — another branch of the Turkish version of the Muslim Brotherhood funded by the Erdogan government. Starting during the Obama presidency, they’ve repeatedly tried to send relief caravans “to break Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip”, sometimes by sea and other times by land through Egypt. It keeps the edgy, jihad-adjacent tourists happily occupied... After the convoy refused Israeli Navy orders to reroute to Ashdod, Israeli commandos boarded one of the ships, the Mavi Marmara, which was carrying over 600 passengers. After being met with violent mostly peaceful resistance the commandos opened fire, killing 10 Ottoman Turkish activists. Ten Israeli soldiers were maimed during the attack.
Following the Mavi Marmara incident, several other flotillas to Gaza were attempted, but largely foiled by Israeli military and diplomatic activities.
"The Zionist regime seems to have no chance to repeat the Mavi Marmara incident," the Ottoman Turkish activist said. "The vessels sail under flags of the US, the UK, Luxembourg, Russian, Germany, Spain, Poland, and many other countries." The activist noted that luxury boats will also join the flotilla and that participants from Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and the USA will spend an average of $14,000 to join.
Golly. Not bad for a weeklong yacht holiday, or so I imagine. Not the kind of thing I’ve ever done. Okcu vowed that protesters would "strictly follow international rules" and would not carry any weapons, "not even a pocket knife," so as not to give Israel any "excuse" to intervene.
"The moment we enter Gaza’s territorial waters, [Israeli forces] can only search us," the activist said, "or tow us to their ports, and impose fines," but will not be allowed by international law to raid the convoy in international waters, the way they assaulted the Mavi Marmara in 2010. "[Israel] would pay a heavy price for attempting any crazy action against such a large international peace fleet."
The diplomatic crisis between Israel and Turkey that ensued after the Mavi Marmara incident was only solved in 2016, when Jerusalem agreed to pay $20 million in compensation to the families of the victims and to allow Ottoman Turkish aid into Gaza — and in return, Istanbul agreed not to hold any individual Israeli nationals criminally or financially liable for the incident.
The blockade on Gaza was imposed by Israel in 2007, shortly after Hamas took control of the coastal enclave, and enforced in cooperation with neighboring Egypt to prevent the terror group from rearming and becoming an even greater menace, after it repeatedly declared its intention to destroy Israel. The blockade involved a ban on specific goods, and a limitation of the delivery into Gaza of dual-use materials that could be utilized for both civilian and military purposes by Hamas.
Despite the blockade, Hamas since 2007 managed to acquire weaponry and funding, thanks mainly to Iranian and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i support, and to fire rockets at Israeli towns and cities on a regular basis, causing skirmishes which on repeated occasions escalated into protracted conflict.
The Mavi Marmara incident from 2010 carries particular significance for the Hamas regime in Gaza, as a symbol of international support to ending the blockade. A monument erected in the Gaza port commemorated the event; it was demolished by the IDF on Thursday in the course of Israel’s ongoing war, launched after the October 7 massacres, aimed at destroying Hamas.
The so-called "Freedom Flotilla Coalition," which organized the 2010 blockade breach, recently announced that it intends to sail again to Gaza in the near future to put pressure on the Israeli and US governments to allow "inspected humanitarian goods" to be delivered into Gaza, and invited other organization to join its boats. It is unclear whether the convoy that is set to depart from Turkey on Thursday is organized by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition or is a separate initiative.
Various attempts were made by international activists after 2010 to bust the blockade, including one by a boat carrying only women in 2016, and another by a Swedish-flagged boat in 2018. In both cases, the vessels were intercepted by the Israeli navy and towed to the port of Ashdod. 
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